The Latest Breaking News from Lithuania

Germany says it is willing to send around 4,000 troops to Lithuania on a permanent basis to strengthen NATO’s eastern flank

Japan's prime minister says he plans to visit Lithuania in July to attend a NATO leaders’ summit as his country steps up cooperation with the Western organization

Lithuania's parliament rejected on Tuesday a proposal by the ruling Homeland Union party for a snap election amidst an expenses scandal, and the prime minister later said her government may resign in response.

The men discussed topics including Ukraine’s expectations from the upcoming Nato summit in Lithuania.

The Conservative peer blamed Brexit for the UK’s poor economic performance: ‘Our GDP per capita is lower – for heaven’s sake – than Lithuania’

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday that Ukraine needed to be given clear and strong security guarantees at a NATO summit in Lithuania in July.

Taiwan has donated five million dollars towards Lithuanian-led reconstructions projects in Ukraine, a Lithuanian government investment agency said on Wednesday.

Germany will move its Patriot missile defence system currently stationed in Slovakia to Lithuania to protect a NATO summit scheduled for July in Vilnius, the country's defense ministry said in a statement.

The EU has imposed restrictions on Russians travelling to Europe following the invasion of Ukraine, with some countries – notably Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Poland and the Czech Republic – imposing an outright ban. The constraints have opened up new markets around the world for Russia’s billion-dollar tourism industry.