Lithuania and Sweden should negotiate ways to share electricity producers’ excess profits without the European Commission’s intervention, Asta Skaisgiryte, the Lithuanian president’s senior foreign policy adviser, has said. “The European Commission could be involved, if necessary, but I don’t think we should do that. I think we should be able to reach a mutual agreement,”…
Lithuania is set to soon sign a contract on the acquisition of new combat drones from the US, Lithuanian Defence Minister Arvydas Anusauskas has said. “One more contract will be signed in the next few days with the manufacturer Switchblade 600. These are combat drones with a combat range of 40 kilometres,” Anusauskas said. According…
Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, LTG), Lithuania’s state-owned railway company, and the country’s three largest cities will continue offering free public transport to refugees from Ukraine next year. LTG Link, LTG’s passenger arm, said all people fleeing the war in Ukraine could use the company’s services free of charge. “From August 1, local train services in…
The Ukrainian women who have fled to Lithuania are not waiting for social payments or assistance from the state. While some go to work, others take matters into their hands and start businesses from scratch. Natalia Nesterenko and Yekaterina Semenyuk were running a dairy business in Kyiv before the start of the full-scale Russian invasion.…
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda says he has informed Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson about disagreements between the two countries over the sharing of surplus profits generated by electricity producers. “Today I informed the Swedish prime minister about the problem and he promised to look into it,” the president told reporters in Brussels on December 15…
Ukrainians who fled Russia’s war would be issued only digital temporary residence permits in Lithuania from next year, the Migration Department said on December 16. Such residence permits will be issued to both new arrivals and those already in the country. “The digitisation of this process will save a lot of time for Ukrainian refugees,…
The European Union on December 15 agreed on the ninth package of sanctions against Russia. However, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis called the agreement “a missed opportunity”. “The 9th sanctions package was a missed opportunity. Sad that we had to spend so much time discussing derogations, not stronger sanctions. Together with Poland we have managed…