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BNS: LITHUANIAN ECONOMY STOPS SHRINKING - PM Added 2009-08-25 VILNIUS, Aug 25, BNS - The latest statistical data show that the Lithuanian economy has stopped contracting, Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius said on Tuesday. "Perhaps [Lithuania's economy] has been through its worst times already. Many statistical...
PRESIDENT OF LITHUANIA MS DALIA GRYBAUSKAITĖ VISITS BRUSSELS Added 2009-08-24 Lithuanian President Ms. Dalia Grybauskaitė is coming to Brussels on the 25-26 of August. Ms Grybauskaitė will meet with Jose Manuel Barroso, President of European Commission, NATO's Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen...
STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT BARROSO ON THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BALTIC WAY HUMAN CHAIN Added 2009-08-23 20 years ago, the 'Baltic Way' peaceful protest of 23 August 1989 brought together more than two million Europeans in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which at that time were still behind the Iron Curtain. President Barroso declared that “today, I...
EURACTIV: "MINI-EUROPE" COMMEMORATES THE "BALTIC WAY" Added 2009-08-19 August  18, Brussels, www.euractiv.com. The Brussels miniature park ‘Mini-Europe’ will this Sunday (23 August) organise an event commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the “Baltic Way”, the longest ever human chain which in...
PRESIDENTS OF LITHUANIA AND RUSSIA DISCUSSED THE IMPORTANCE OF GOOD-NEIGHBORLY RELATIONS Added 2009-08-18 August 18, Vilnius. President Dalia Grybauskaitė had a telephone conversation with the President of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Medvedev. During their conversation, the two presidents discussed the urgent issues relating to the...
BLOOMBERG: LITHUANIA'S "ATTRACTIVE BONDS" HELP GOVERNMENT AVOID BAILOUT Added 2009-08-13 The country’s government debt is “very attractive” and “a compelling investment story” compared with its peers in eastern Europe such as Hungary or Romania, said Lutz Roehmeyer, a Berlin-based fund manager at Landesbank Berlin AG who oversees...
l'Humanité: Le méconnu Ciurlionis sous les projecteurs de l’Europe Added 2009-08-12 Qui connaît Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis (1875-1911) ? Les amateurs du Musée d’Orsay se rappelleront, qui sait ? de la première rétrospective consacrée à un obscur peintre balte à la fin de l’année 2000. Mais rien n’est moins sûr.
LITHUANIA‘S FOREIGN MINISTER URGES RUSSIA TO STOP DISCRIMINATING LITHUANIAN ROAD CARRIERS Added 2009-08-11 On 11 August, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Vygaudas Ušackas called in Ambassador of the Russian Federation Vladimir Chkhikvadze and requested him to provide explanations concerning the discriminatory measures that are applied to the...
BNS: LITHUANIA WILL HAVE NEW NUCLEAR POWER PLANT -- ENERGY MINISTER Added 2009-08-07 VILNIUS, Aug 06, BNS - A new nuclear power plant will be built in Lithuania, Energy Minister Arvydas Sekmokas believes. President Dalia Grybauskaite expressed doubts over the conditions under which Lithuania could build the nuclear facility, not...
MINISTER V.UŠACKAS AND RUSSIA’S MINISTER OF TRANSPORTS DISCUSSED THE PROBLEMS OF LITHUANIAN CARRIERS Added 2009-08-07 On 7 August, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Vygaudas Ušackas discussed the problems of Lithuanian carriers while crossing the Russian border with Igor Levitin, Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation and co-chairman of the...