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PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT WILL DONATE ITS NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA PRIZE TO THE EUROPEAN HUMANITIES UNIVERSITY Added 2009-12-09 On 8 December in Bonn, President of the European Parliament (EP) Jerzy Buzek received the prestigious North Rhine-Westphalia annual award the "Staatspreis" for the significant role of the EP in an enlarged Europe and the strengthening of democracy...
LITHUANIA WILL CONTINUE ASKING FOR EU SUPPORT TO ENERGY PROJECTS Added 2009-12-09 Wednesday, December 9, Vilnius - In the meeting with the President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy, President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė underlined that Lithuania would ask the European Union to envisage funds in its...
BNS: LITHUANIA TO BEGIN CONSTRUCTION ON NEW N-PLANT 3-4 YEARS - PRESIDENT Added 2009-12-08 VILNIUS, Dec 08, BNS - Construction on a new nuclear power plant in Lithuania will start in three to four years' time, President Dalia Grybauskaite said on Tuesday. "In about three years' time, four years at the latest, construction on the new...
THE FORTHCOMING EUROPEAN COUNCIL WAS DISCUSSED IN BRUSSELS Added 2009-12-07 At the European Union‘s General Affairs Council meeting on 7 December in Brussels, Lithuania‘s Minister of Foreign Affairs Vygaudas Ušackas and his counterparts discussed preparation of the European Council scheduled for 10-11 December, as well as...
THIRD QUARTER OF 2009 LITHUANIA'S GDP UP BY 6,1% Added 2009-12-03 GDP increased by 0.4% in the euro area 1 (EA16) and by 0.3% in the EU27 1 during the third quarter of 2009, compared with the previous quarter, according to first estimates released by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities....
BNS: LITHUANIA'S IGNALINA N-PLANT WILL BE SWITCHED OFF ONE HOUR BEFORE 2010 Added 2009-12-03 VILNIUS, Dec 01, BNS - Lithuania's Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP), which covers some 80 percent of the country's electricity needs, will be switched off at 11 p.m. on Dec. 31, 2009, in line with the order signed by the INPP CEO Viktor...
THE LITHUANIAN REPRESENTATIVE CHOSEN AS MEMBER OF THE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL ADVISORY BODY TO THE UNESCO CONVENTION ON THE PROTECTION OF THE UNDERWATER CULTURAL HERITAGE Added 2009-12-03 Representative of Lithuania, Rector of Klaipėda University, Professor Vladas Žulkus was chosen as member of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Body to the Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage. The decision was...
LITHUANIA ASSUMED THE CHAIRMANSHIP OF THE ORGANIZATION FOR THE PROHIBITION OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS Added 2009-12-01 Lithuania’s Permanent Representative to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Ambassador Vaidotas Verba assumed the year-long chairmanship of the annual Conference of the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention.
PRIME MINISTER'S PRESENTATION ON LITHUANIAN ECONOMY Added 2009-11-29 On Friday, Nowember 13, Prime Minister Andrius Kubiliusi in his speech “Lithuania before, during and after the Recession” statistically grounded the reasons why the Baltic economies were hit the hardest, as well as for the effects of the...
UKRAINIAN ELECTRICITY TO BE SUPPLIED TO LITHUANIA WITHOUT INTERMEDIARIES Added 2009-11-26 Thursday, November 26, Kyiv - While on a working visit to Ukraine, President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė has underlined that Ukraine might become a very important energy partner for Lithuania and for the whole European Union...