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Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Monday signed a legal amendment, which reintroduces conscription service in the country.

Last year, Lithuania attracted 29 foreign companies. In the next three years the country should have about 2,000 additional jobs thanks to these new investors. A recent report by the “Kapital” program, broadcast on Estonian national television, investigated what Lithuania has that Estonia doesn’t, I...

Social security contributions amounting to EUR 41.4 billion have been paid to the State Social Insurance Fund (Sodra) since its establishment, whereas Sodra has paid out EUR 44.9 billion in benefits.

At the United Nations - first-hand testimonies on violations of human rights in Crimea and eastern Ukraine. On 19 March, the Permanent Mission of Lithuania to the United Nations held an informal meeting of members of the Security Council on the situation in Crimea and eastern Ukraine. According to P...

On March 21, during a solemn ceremony at the National Art Palace Ukraine in Kyiv, President Dalia Grybauskaitė was presented with Ukraine's Person of the Year 2014 award. The title was bestowed on the president of Lithuania for her solid support to Ukraine's independence, sovereignty, territorial in...

Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius, currently on a visit in Australia, on March 23 presented the country's readiness to join the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

Lithuanian MFA condemns the murder of famous Russian politician and one of the opposition leaders Boris Nemtsov. This brutal crime, which, according to the preliminary data, was well planned and organized, must be immediately investigated, and those responsible brought to justice.

Lithuanians of the US Capital region celebrated on Sunday, 15 February, the 97th anniversary of Lithuania as the modern day State, on one of the most blistery, cold days in recent memory. The day’s celebration started with a Latin mass in St. Matthews Cathedral. Monsignor Rolandas Makrickas of the A...

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė congratulated the people of the country on the Day of Restoration of the State, urging them to be ready to defend their country.

Troops from nine NATO countries took part in the main planning conference of the Saber Strike 2015 multinational exercises at the General Adolfas Ramanauskas Warfare Training Centre in Nemenčine on February 10-13.

Estonian construction concern AS Merko Ehitus group informed the Tallinn Stock Exchange of getting a EUR 15 million contract in Lithuania.

The fall session just completed by the Lithuanian parliament is historic, as it adopted a package of laws ensuring Lithuania's accession to the euro area, Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužinienė says.

Lithuania's government on 23 December okayed the establishment of a deputy defence attaché at the Embassy to Ukraine as of January 1.

According to Ernst & Young's (EY) annual Eurozone Economic Growth Forecast, Lithuania will surpass Latvia next year as the fastest growing eurozone economy, even though Latvia's economic growth is expected to grow faster than this year.

Lithuania’s Foreign Ministry summoned Russian Ambassador to Lithuania Aleksandr Udaltsov on 24 November over the trade barriers at the border, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania wrote in a press release.

On 20 November in Vilnius, Lithuania's Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius met with Speaker of the Swedish Parliament (Riksdag) Urban Ahlin and discussed bilateral and international policy issues, the ministry reports.

A slowdown in checks of Lithuanian vehicles at the country’s border with Russia is a matter of concern, Algimantas Kondrusevičius, president of Linava, the Lithuanian road carriers’ association, has said.

Lithuanian Foreign Affairs Minister Linas Linkevičius has summoned the Russian ambassador to explain why Lithuanian cars are being blocked at the Russian border. The meeting is expected to take place on Monday, 24 November.

On Monday, 24 November, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė goes for a working visit to Ukraine. She will meet with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and attend the seventh session of the Council of Presidents of the Republic of Lithuania and Ukraine, the presidential press service said.

Lithuania’s preparations for the adoption of the euro next year seem overall well on track, the European Commission (EC) has said, calling on Lithuania’s authorities to address the remaining concerns related to euro introduction and to increase consumers’ confidence so as to ensure smooth euro chang...