World Lithuanian Community

President Gitanas Nausėda held a conference call with members of the board of the World Lithuanian Community and the World Lithuanian Youth Association. During the conversation diaspora’s topical issues were discussed as countries struggle to deal with the consequences of the crisis caused by the pa...

On Thursday, the Seimas passed amendments to the referendum law, which increases the voting deadline to 10PM and expands the number of voting locations abroad with the aim of increasing voter turnout. Furthermore, the new law establishes an institution, which would perform campaigning when the Seima...

The proposal by UK Prime Minister Theresa May for European Union (EU) citizens present in the country should ease tensions among the Lithuanians living in great Britain, says Daiva Asanavičiūtė, the leader of the local Lithuanian community.

Members of the Lithuanian national minority living in Poland say they are observing the increasingly radical sentiments of the Polish ruling parties on national minorities, adding they are not certain about their future.

The World Lithuanian Community does not support plans for a referendum on dual citizenship this October because it is virtually impossible to achieve the required results with the current electoral laws governing the referendum, said Dalia Henke, World Lithuanians‘ Community Board chairwoman on Žini...

Lithuanian institutions are putting more and more effort into enticing expatriates to return to their homeland, world Lithuanian youth leaders said during a meeting with Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius.

The Seimas and the World Lithuanian Community Commission is starting its work in the Lithuanian parliament on Tuesday. The commission's agenda includes issues related to preservation of Lithuanian citizenship, setting up a voting constituency for expatriates and refugee resettlement.

Lithuania has recently commemorated 25 years of freedom. A member of multiple international organisations and by all accounts a success, the country still suffers from emigration.

Russia's Vladimir Putin may have just done favour for Lithuania with his sardonic remark on “fewer Lithuanians” during his recent visit to Kaliningrad – even parties that had bristled against the idea of a referendum on allowing dual citizenship, might be embracing it amid the sabre-rattling from th...

President Dalia Grybauskaitė has congratulated Lithuanian communities on the occasion of the World Lithuanians' Unity Day.

The 15th Seimas of the Lithuanian World Community will convene in Vilnius on 15-17 July.

Last week, the Commission of the Seimas and the Lithuanian World Community held sittings and adopted a resolution urging the Seimas, parliament, not to approve a referendum on dual citizenship.

Kęstutis Eidukonis, a member of the Commission of the Lithuanian Seimas and the World Lithuanian Community, delivered the following remarks at the Commission's meeting last week.

During a dinner on Monday at the Prunskis Residence, topics discussed were support of the ambitious and important library project at the Jesuit high school in Vilnius, Lithuania, which is consistently ranked one of the top three high schools in Lithuania and has placed its graduates in top universit...

A few months ago, the Lithuanian Parliament (Seimas) began a debate on forming a new permanent committee on emigration.

The Lithuanian community in Italy has launched a new online platform, itlietuviai.it, aimed at consolidating contact among expatriates living across the Southern European country.

Just after Lithuania regained its independence, Kęstutis Eidukonis, a Lithuanian who had completed the US military service in Panama, began to correspond with the government and proposed to create a register of ships after the Panamanian example. When he came to free Lithuania for the first time, th...

Vytautas Magnus University invited expatriate Lithuanians and nationals of foreign countries who would like to study the Lithuanian language and see the country to attend an intensive summer course on the Lithuanian language and culture.

Representatives of the World Lithuanian Community would like to see authorities making decisions on the legalization of dual citizenship and e-voting and would also like to have their representative in the Seimas, WLC deputy chairwoman Dalia Henke says.