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| Joanna Hyndle-Hussein
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius and energy minister Arvydas Sekmokas announced that the possible withdrawal of one partner would not jeopardise the implementation of this strategic project for Lithuania. They expressed the…
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| Joanna Hyndle-Hussein
The three-month work of the Polish-Lithuanian commission of education experts, which was formed in September upon the initiative of the prime ministers of Poland and Lithuania, ended in failure.
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| Joanna Hyndle-Hussein
Although Lithuania obtained significant funds from the EU for a complete decommissioning and disassembly of the power plant by 2029, none of the projects of key significance for this process has been implemented and most are 3–4 years…
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On 14 July in Austria, a Russian citizen, Mikhail Golovatov, was arrested. He was wanted by Lithuania by means of a European arrest warrant on charges of leading the action of pacifying independence protests at the TV tower in Vilnius on…
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Lithuania’s Seimas adopted an amended gas law on 30 June. Lietuvos Dujos (LD), the largest wholesale supplier and the monopoly on the Lithuanian gas distribution market, will be split into individual companies dealing with gas transport…
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The Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania on 11 July passed a non-appealable verdict in the dispute over information plates in Polish and Russian located in public places in the Vilnius Region. The local government of the Vilnius…
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Arvydas Sekmokas, the Lithuanian energy minister, visited the USA on 11 May with the aim of gaining partners for co-operation in the gas sector among US companies. During the visit, the Lithuanian state-owned company Klaipedos Nafta, which…
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| Joanna Hyndle-Hussein
The escalation of the conflict between the conservatives/Christian democrats-EAPL has made it easier for Arturas Zuokas to return to the position of mayor of Vilnius whereas the two conflicting parties go into opposition.
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Since Lithuania’s Seimas had amended the education law thus narrowing the scope of education in the Polish language and significantly reducing the number of schools with Polish as the language of instruction, Poles from the Vilnius region…
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Lithuania’s Seimas amended the education act on 17 March despite continuing protests by minority organisations. The new regulations, starting as early as 1 September, will radically reduce the use of minority languages at non-Lithuanian…