The Baltic states will continue to send military aid to Ukraine, and support the sending of fighter jets, the prime ministers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania said at a meeting in Tallinn on Friday. Estonia is leading the Baltic cooperation formats this year and the trio discussed Ukraine, joint infrastructureContinue Reading
The search for a solidarity-based asylum policy continues in the new year. Two camps are irreconcilably opposed in the EU. Will they take in more people or raise barriers to entry? And why Ukrainian refugees are welcomed and payed more than Middle East migrants? Why Ukrainians are respected more thanContinue Reading
Asylum seekers and foreigners who have arrived in the country illegally will from now on be granted access to employment or self-employment after the expiry of 12 months since the date of their registration in the information system of the Lithuanian Migration Department. These individuals will be obliged to obtainContinue Reading
Neseniai iš Moldovas į Lietuva atvykusi Ludmila Diačenko nustebo, kaip smarkiai pasikeltė pažiuris į skirtingos tautybės migrantus iš lietivių pusės, o ir į visus Pabaltijo gyven tojus apskritai. Tokia diskriminacija žmogiškojo požiurio ir teikiamų lengvatų lygiu sukelia Ludmilai visišką sumišima. Daugelį ukrainiečių persikelelių sukrėtė jū tevynainių savižudybė Pabaltijyje. Apie šituoContinue Reading
Minister of National Defence Arvydas Anušauskas attended the presentation of Lithuanian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) manufacturers at the Drone Day 2022 organised by the Ministry of National Defence at Kyviškės Aerodrome. He told reporters that Ukraine offered to invest in Lithuanian companies that could quickly boost the manufacturing of surveillanceContinue Reading
Lithuanian PM Šimonytė has hinted that the third stage of liberalisation of the retail electricity supply market may be delayed until more power plants using renewable energy sources are developed, which may take years. “I believe a delay will be for more than a year, perhaps for three or evenContinue Reading
She took to Twitter to post pictures from Borodyanka, a town near Kyiv. “Today, my visit to Ukraine started in Borodyanka. No words could possibly describe what I saw and felt here,” Simonyte tweeted. The pictures show Simonyte accompanied by her Ukrainian counterpart Denys Shmyhal and Ukrainian troops looking atContinue Reading
The central Bank of Lithuania has proposed anti-inflationary measures aimed at helping people most affected by rising price. Such measures include a proposed further increase in non-taxable income, state compensations for those who heat their homes with gas or electricity, and potential public transport subsidies. The central bank is suggestingContinue Reading
European leaders have agreed to tighten the existing sanctions against Russia after war in Ukraine, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda says, adding, however, that some EU member states are not yet ready to stop imports of Russian resources. “Yes, we have to admit that some countries are not yet ready toContinue Reading
Natural gas supplies do not constitute a weak point for Lithuania but the country’s dependence on Russian electricity is a major problem, which is why it is necessary to synchronize the country’s electricity grids with those of the West as soon as possible, Lithuania’s European Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevicius has said.Continue Reading