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Despite the inclement weather, Lithuanians living in London met at Parsloes park, Dagenham on the morning of Saturday 9th January for a commerorative run to mark the historic events of January 13. The pouring rain did not have any effect on the people or on the joyful atmosphere.
United Kingdom's Minister of State for Europe David Lidington is visiting Lithuania on Thursday and Friday. He is to meet with Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius and attend the Snow Meeting of security policy experts on Thursday.
The European Union's talks with the United Kingdom in the run-up to its membership referendum will be complicated, says Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė. While she supports London's drive to make the EU more efficient and less bureaucratic, she has said that proposals to deny benefits to EU n...
On International Migrants Day (18 December), Statistics Lithuania announced that, over the last decade, 126,000 new residents immigrated into Lithuania while 438,500 emigrated. From 2005 to 2014, the percentage of emigrants of ages 20-39 grew from 51.9 to 59.2 percent. In 2014, as many as 82 percent...
A Lithuanian cyber security start-up, AimBrain, has raised almost half a million euros in funding to develop biometric-based online security that would spell the end of passwords.
On Thursday, 17 December, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė will travel to Brussels to attend a European Council meeting and discuss additional measures to manage the migration crisis, including the setting up of a European Border and Coast Guard. European leaders will also exchange views on h...
Defence Minister Juozas Olekas has signed an agreement in London, establishing the Joint Expeditionary Force. Defence Policy Director at the Ministry of National Defence Vaidotas Urbelis says that the seven states that signed the agreement share a similar view on security and will be able to decide ...
The government-run company Būsto Paskolų Draudimas, or Housing Loan Insurance, will search for people who have defaulted on their loans and emigrated to the United Kingdom.
President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė says most of the proposals brought forward by Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron concerning the European Union's (EU) reform would require negotiations, because complex procedures would have to be initiated to amend the EU's treaties.
On 20 October, the Embassy of Lithuania in the United Kingdom and Oxford Intelligence organized a business networking event in London, the embassy reports.
Refuting the myth that Lithuanian expatriates in the United Kingdom care little about social problems at their home country, some members of the Lithuanian community wish to bring focus on what they think is the biggest social sore in Lithuania, suicide.
NATO should step up pressure on Russia to use its influence on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as well as to give a more resolute response to Moscow's "testing" of the Alliance's flank in the Baltics, UK Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has said in an interview to The Wall Street Journal published ...
On 24 September, representatives of the British, Jewish and Lithuanian communities in the United Kingdom as well as members of parliament and foreign diplomats residing in London gathered at the Embassy to commemorate the victims of the Shoah in Lithuania, the Embassy reports.
Dental clinics in Lithuania reported an increase in patients from Britain getting part of the treatment costs reimbursed by the NHS. The British National Health Service (NHS) provides healthcare of which the vast majority are free at the point of use for people legally resident in the United Kingdom...
On the invitation of Lithuanian Finance Minister Rimantas Šadžius, a delegation of the City of London, one of the key financial centres of the world, is visiting Vilnius on 14-15 September.
In one of the first legal cases of its kind, a British company is being taken to the High Court in London by victims of modern slavery seeking compensation for their alleged abuse and mistreatment.
Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius expressed hope after meeting with the new Ambassador of the United Kingdom in Vilnius Claire Lawrence on Tuesday that the UK would stay a member of the European Union (EU).
On 3 July, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Neris Germanas congratulated British Ambassador to Lithuania Claire Lawrence on her new position.
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with British Prime Minister David Cameron in Brussels on Thursday and stressed that any EU reform must not undermine free movement of people, goods, services and capital.
The British Embassy in Vilnius hosted an award ceremony to recognize the achievements of the participants of the Duke of Edinburgh International Award. This year, 17 participants of the programme received 15 Bronze and 2 Silver Awards.
