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Lithuania wants to keep the current scheme of appointment of European commissioners where every country delegates one member of the European Commission (EC) after Brexit, says President Dalia Grybauskaitė.

A group of members of the European Parliament have expressed their concern over the Lithuanian parliament's decision to set up a parliamentary commission to scrutinize the activities of the public broadcaster Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT).

Lithuania's residents and historians believe that the three figures with the main contribution to the country's statehood over the past century include Jonas Basanavičius, the father of national rebirth, Supreme Council Chairman Vytautas Landsbergis and interwar president Antanas Smetona.

Lithuanian MEP Rolandas Paksas, Lietuvos Rytas media group CEO Gedvydas Vainauskas and businessman Antanas Zabulis plead not guilty on charges of influence peddling but will provide testimony to court.

The European Commission proposes to transform the 500-billion-euro European Stability Mechanism (ESM) into a European Monetary Fund (EMF) to more rapidly respond to financial difficulties in Eurozone member states.

The Lithuanian Social Democratic Labour group, which has split from the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party and is headed by MPs Gediminas Kirkilas and Juozas Bernatonis, have sent a letter to European politicians and diplomats, which criticizes the Gintautas Paluckas-led LSDP as "radical left" that ...

The Lithuanian parliament adopted on Thursday a resolution suggesting 44 names for inclusion in the so-called Sergei Magnitsky list of people to be barred from entering the country.

The European Commission has ordered the development of a unified food quality assessment methodology in the European Union (EU) to prevent different food standards in the community, said Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis, Lithuanian commissioner in charge of health and food safety.

Lithuanian politicians who have proposed a plan of European Union's (EU) financial aid to Ukraine aim to secure support at the European Parliament (EU).

Antanas Guoga, a 43-year-old Australian-Lithuanian businessman, a former professional poker player known as Tony G, and now a member of the European Parliament, has taken over control of BC Lietuvos Rytas, a professional basketball club based in the Lithuanian capital.

The European Parliament on Wednesday lifted the legal immunity of Lithuanian MEP Rolandas Paksas.

The European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs proposes to lift the legal immunity of Lithuanian MEP Rolandas Paksas in an influence peddling case.

The European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs has postponed discussion on Lithuanian prosecutors' request to lift the legal immunity of MEP Rolandas Paksas until its next meeting in late June.

The European Parliament's (EP) Committee on Legal Affairs should Monday submit a conclusion on whether Lithuania's MEP Rolandas Paksas should have his legal immunity revoked in the investigation of peddling influence.

The European Parliament (EP) on Thursday denounced the Belarusian and Russian response to the wave of protests in the countries, also expressing concern that the European Union's (EU) support to Belarus could be used for financing the Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) close to Lithuania's borders...

The new nuclear power plant in Belarus may be launched one year later than originally planned, in 2019. The Russian company Rosatom, which is building the facility in Astravyets, says that the launch of the first reactor may be pushed back because its body needs to be replaced. To read this article,...