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IN BRUSSELS, INTERNATIONAL DONORS AGREE TO FURTHER SUPPORT REFORMS IN UKRAINE Added 2014-07-10 The high-level meeting to coordinate international support for Ukraine was held on 8 July in Brussels. The Lithuanian Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrius Krivas and representatives of most foreign countries, the EU, other key international...
LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER MEETS WITH A. BELIATSKY, STRESSES THAT ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS IN BELARUS SHOULD BE RELEASED Added 2014-07-01 On 27 June, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius met with Ales Beliatsky, the famous human rights activist, who was released last week. They had a conversation about the human rights situation in Belarus. L.Linkevičius...
L.LINKEVIČIUS: ASSOCIATION AGREEMENTS EMBED THE EUROPEAN CHOISE OF THE PEOPLE OF UKRAINE, MOLDOVA AND GEORGIA Added 2014-07-01 The EU’s Association Agreements with Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia were signed during the European Council on 27 June in Brussels. The President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė signed the Association Agreements on behalf of Lithuania.
EU LEADERS GAVE POLITICAL ENDORSEMENT TO LITHUANIA'S ADOPTION OF THE EURO Added 2014-06-27 Friday, June 27, Brussels - The European Council gave its high political endorsement to the introduction of the euro in Lithuania as of 15 January 2015. The Council conclusions commend Lithuania for successfully overcoming the crisis and underline...
ASSOCIATION AGREEMENTS WITH GEORGIA, MOLDOVA AND UKRAINE OPEN A NEW STAGE OF RELATIONS WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION Added 2014-06-27 Friday, June 27, Brussels- The European Union signed Association Agreements with Georgia and Moldova and the Free Trade Agreement, which is an integral part of the Association Agreement, with Ukraine. The signature process with respect to the...
WORLD WAR I LESSONS FOR PRESERVING PEACE Added 2014-06-26 Thursday, June 26, Ypres (Belgium)- President Dalia Grybauskaitė attended a memorial ceremony at Ypres to commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War. It was in Ypres, located at the center of WWI battlefields, that a chemical...
COMMISSION APPROVES STATE AID FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS IN LITHUANIA Added 2014-06-25 The European Commission has found that a Lithuanian scheme aimed at boosting the information technology (ICT) sector in Lithuania is in line with EU state aid rules. In particular, the Commission has concluded that the measure contributes to EU...
EU SUPPORTS PEACE PLAN PUT FORWARD BY UKRAINE'S PRESIDENT, WILL SEEK TO STRENGTHEN RESPONSE TO RUSSIA Added 2014-06-25 The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius attended the Foreign Affairs Council meeting in Luxembourg on 23 June, during which the EU Foreign Ministers and Ukraine’s new Minister of Foreign Affairs Pavlo Klimkin discussed...
FILM ABOUT LITHUANIA’S SINGING REVOLUTION TO MARK THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF ACCESSION TO THE EU Added 2014-06-24 On June 25, 2014 a documentary “How we played the Revolution” (2011) by a young Lithuanian director Giedrė Žičkytė will be screened in Bozar Arts Center in Brussels. The audience will also have the opportunity to meet the film...
EUROZONE COUNTRIES IN FAVOUR OF LITHUANIA EURO ACCESSION Added 2014-06-20 The euro area member states today adopted a recommendation approving a proposal that would enable Lithuania to become the 19th member of the currency union on 1 January 2015.