The State Border Guard Service (VSAT) will allocate additional personnel to ensure public order at the border during the protest of Polish farmers, who plan to start a blockade of a motorway connecting Poland and Lithuania on Friday.
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Lithuanian farmers held protests in January over the situation in the agricultural sector. At first, they burned bonfires on their land and later travelled in their tractors to protest in the capital Vilnius. The Government promised to solve a number of issues in agriculture, but now farmers may sta...
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Farmers in their tractors are gradually leaving Vilnius on Friday as their protest has come to an end. The vehicles have already left Gediminas Avenue escorted by the police in the city, organisers say.
On Thursday, farmers protesting in Vilnius over agricultural policies met with the prime minister. Their protest, which has lasted for three days, is due to end on Thursday at 4 p.m.
The organiser of the farmers’ protest says Seimas Speaker Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen has pledged an urgent procedure to address part of farmers’ demands in the parliamentary spring session.
President Gitanas Nausėda has delegated his chief adviser, Jarek Niewierowicz, to meet with protesting farmers due to his own busy agenda including meetings outside Vilnius.
On Wednesday, Minister of Agriculture Kęstutis Navickas and Minister of Environment Simonas Gentvilas spoke to farmers who were holding a three-day protest in Vilnius and arrived at the capital with their tractors a day earlier.
Farmers on Wednesday started their rally outside the Government in protest against the recent agricultural policy after driving their tractors to Vilnius centre from across the country a day earlier.
A number of protesting farmers lined their tractors up on Vilnius Gediminas Avenue on Tuesday morning in protest against the long-standing problems of the sector that are not being addressed as they say.
Farmers on Tuesday are set to gather in Vilnius for a days-long protest campaign. Protesters are bringing their agricultural machinery and will hold a rally outside the Government on Wednesday, said the Lithuanian Agriculture Council, the organizer.
Young people in Lithuania's cities of Vilnius and Klaipeda plan to join an international protest against clime change on Friday but the movement has attracted considerably less attention in Lithuania than it has in Western Europe.
A survey shows overwhelming public support for a spontaneous boycott action in May when shoppers where urged to avoid major supermarket chains in protest of rising food prices. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.
A march to protest against the high prices of goods was held in Kaunas on Saturday as a follow up to the three-day boycott of supermarkets organised earlier in the week.
Lithuanian farmers gave out free milk to people in the centre of Vilnius outside the Ministry of Agriculture yesterday in protest at the low prices they are getting from retailers for their milk.
Milk producers being hit by significant losses are calling for resignation of the Minister of Agriculture and say in the absence of government support, they will bring cows into the centre of Vilnius in protest by the end of March.
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has promised to personally meet with teachers’ union representatives who are planning to start an open-ended strike today, after statements by the vice-chancellor of the government claiming the strike action may be illegal deepened the crisis.
Teachers plan a march of protest and a rally in Vilnius on Monday.
After meeting with government officials on Wednesday, Lithuanian teachers' unions announced they would resume strikes, saying the government has failed to show "political will" to meet their demands.
Lithuanian teachers' unions have called off a planned strike after a meeting with the prime minister on Thursday.
