Lithuania’s opposition Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LVZS) has nominated MP Aurelijus Veryga as the party’s candidate for president, BNS reports. Veryga served as adviser to Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius in 2009-2012 and as health minister in 2016-2020, including during the height of the coronavirus pandemic. Veryga joined LVZS in 2018. Lithuania will hold presidential…
Lithuania’s Foreign Ministry will provide premises at the Lithuanian embassy in Kyiv for Iceland’s ambassador to Ukraine, BNS reports. Iceland’s Foreign Minister, Thordis Kolbrún, expressed gratitude for the cooperation. Iceland’s embassy to Ukraine is currently based in Polish capital Warsaw.
An increasing number of Lithuanian emigrants are considering going back, according to a poll carried out by the Employment Service (UzT) in May 2023, LRT reports. The survey showed that 55.1% of respondents would like to return to Lithuania, which is 14.6 percentage points higher than in 2020. The majority of those who wish to…
Lithuania’s Foreign Ministry has handed in a diplomatic note to Belarus following the launch of the second power unit of the Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant (BelAES) in Astravyets, BNS reports. Lithuania urged Belarus not to operate the second unit until all safety problems have been resolved. The Foreign Ministry noted that Belarus had failed to…
Lithuania and Poland may close their borders with Belarus in the event of serious incidents involving the Russian mercenary group, Wagner Group, along the frontier, BNS reports. Reuters cited Poland’s Interior Minister, Mariusz Kaminski, as saying that such a possibility was being discussed with neighbouring countries. Lithuania’s Deputy Interior Minister, Arnoldas Abramavicius, confirmed that there…
Lithuania’s Modus Asset Management has secured EUR 58mn of debt financing from Poland’s BNP Paribas Bank Polska and PKO Bank Polski, The Baltic Times reports. Modus Asset Management’s Modus Poland Solar Fund I will use the funds to finance the acquisition of a 93 MW solar farm portfolio in Poland. The fund now owns over…
A Lithuanian family who abducted their children from temporary foster care are linked to the so-called “sovereign citizen movement” (SovCits), according to the State Security Department (VSD), LRT reports. VSD said that the SovCits are guided by an “anti-state extremist ideology” that denies the legitimacy of the state. The children were taken into foster care…
The Lithuanian fashion retailer, Apranga Group, posted an unaudited consolidated profit before income tax of EUR 9.0mn in the first half of 2023, which was up from EUR 7.1mn in the same period of 2022, GlobeNewswire reports. The group’s EBITDA amounted to EUR 18.9mn, which was up from EUR 17.1mn a year earlier. Six-month retail…
Lithuania’s preparedness for possible threats is adequate for the current situation, Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte stated, LRT reports. She was commenting reports that Russian private military company Wagner Group’s mercenaries had arrived in neighbouring Belarus. Simonyte said that Lithuanian intelligence agencies were monitoring the situation in Belarus and exchanging information with allied partners. Defence Minister…