Lithuania

The Ministry of National Defence says it has no information on a health incident at last year’s NATO summit in Vilnius related to so-called Havana syndrome, which reportedly affected a US official.

MP Ieva Kačinskaitė-Urbonienė on Thursday night announced that she is withdrawing from the Labour Party. The politician wrote in a post on social network Facebook that she is leaving the party as their positions on key issues differ extremely.

Law enforcement conducted searches at the company Alvora, the main contractor that constructed Gas Interconnection Poland-Lithuania (GIPL) in Lithuania. The Financial Crime Investigation Service (FNTT) confirmed to the news website 15min.lt on Thursday that searches were also simultaneously carried ...

MP Saulius Skvernelis believes that a 5 percentage point raise of the corporate income tax may be considered after Lithuanian companies showed their determination to contribute to defence funding. The leader of the party Democrats For Lithuania argues that higher taxation would create a sustainable ...

The parliamentary commission for inquiry into intelligence activities has officially presented its findings at the Seimas. However, the chairs of the Seimas groups decided on Thursday that the commission’s report will not be voted on until after Easter.

The Parliament on Thursday passed a draft law on abandoning 1 and 2 cent coins. The final sum of the basket of goods and services will be rounded once the legislation takes effect on 1 May 2025.

Vilnius residents have been asked to close their windows due to black smoke coming from a car scrap yard on fire.

Law enforcement officers visited the Labour Party’s headquarters on Tuesday and left with a pile of documents. Its Chairman Andrius Mazuronis says the investigation is linked to the previous leadership’s activities in the European Parliament.

President Gitanas Nausėda has doubts about the findings of an ad hoc parliamentary commission that carried out an inquiry into the case of Tomas Gailius, an employee of the State Security Department (VSD) who raised alarm about the activities of the intelligence agency during the 2019 presidential e...

Gitanas Nausėda started meeting with some Belarusian fertiliser companies months before he was elected president, a parliamentary inquiry finds. The president later actively sought that Belarusian fertilisers would not be sanctioned, it said.

Lithuania’s new Minister of National Defence Laurynas Kasčiūnas took oath in parliament on Tuesday, 26 March.

President Gitanas Nausėda has appointed Laurynas Kasčiūnas, chair of the Seimas Committee on National Security and Defence (NSGK), as national defence minister.

Numerous Lithuanian companies and organisations have joined the initiative 4 procentai (4 Percent), calling on the politicians to urgently agree on 4% GDP defence spending and encouraging the public to support the move.

A missile launched by Russia at western Ukraine entered Polish airspace on Sunday night. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis, who paid a working visit to the United States, calls to send a clear message to Russia that missiles or drones entering NATO airspace will be shot...

Vilnius City District Court on Friday allowed tracking Šarūnas Stepukonis, former partner of BaltCap Infrastructure Fund, suspected of embezzling and gambling away about EUR 40 million of the fund’s money.

Over twenty organisations raising funds for Ukraine have voiced their support for MP Laurynas Kasčiūnas, current chair of the Seimas security committee, as next defence minister. The move comes after a number of mostly human rights NGOs sent a letter to the president asking not to approve the nomina...

The national LGBT rights organisation LGL on Thursday announced it has applied for holding EuroPride, Europe’s most important festival for the LGBT+ community, in Lithuania in 2027.

Two Social Democrat MPs have criticized the ruling parties for paying little attention to shelters and other civil safety issues in their efforts to boost national defence.

Enefit Green erected the first 230-metre wind turbines in Kelmė I wind farm (80 MW) located in western Lithuania. A total of 14 wind turbines will be installed, which will start producing about 270 gigawatt-hours of renewable energy per year, Enefit Green said in a press release.

The State Border Guard Service (VSAT) says 19 foreign nationals tried to cross into Lithuania from Belarus over the past day, 19 March.