Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas believes that Lithuania does not need a second offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea unless it secures enough export markets and that Ignitis Group will have to take responsibility for any delays in the first offshore wind farm project, which the state-controlled energy group is developing with partners. “I can…
At least four defence industry companies from Germany and Ukraine want to cooperate with Lithuania, Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas has announced. According to him, efforts are also underway to establish contacts with US, Swedish, and UK arms manufacturers. “There’s been significant headway. I have four proposals on the table, from both Germany and Ukraine. We’re…
Lithuanian Defence Minister Dovile Sakaliene says she will have “very positive news” soon on withdrawing from the Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel mines. “I have no doubt we will have very positive news very soon, not in a month and not even in a week,” the minister told BNS by phone from Poland on March 12…
Sofoklis, a Lithuanian publishing house, said on March 4 it was removing a book by US Vice President JD Vance from sale and urged people to read books by Ukrainian authors instead. The move came after the US paused military aid to Ukraine. “Following the US presidential administration’s decision to suspend aid to Ukraine, Sofoklis…
As a 10-year contract on gas transit via Lithuania to Russia’s Kaliningrad region is expiring at the end of the year, the energy minister says it is too early to say if it will be extended. Zygimantas Vaiciunas noted that the gas transit deal was not just a bilateral issue between Vilnius and Moscow, it…
Lithuania started dismantling the supports of the first of six power lines linking it to Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave after the Baltic States synchronised their grids with the continental European system in early February. On February 24, workers began removing the supports of the Kruonis Pumped Storage Plant (PSP)-Sovetsk power line. The dismantling of the first…
Lithuania’s financial technology company Paysera said on February 22 that it had fully restored its services after a cyber-attack on February 21. “The company apologises to its customers and e-commerce shoppers who experienced inconveniences. The DDoS attack hindered service accessibility and slowed system performance, but it did not compromise customer data or funds,” it said…