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G. Nauseda: with their heroic struggles Ukrainians have proved to be worthy of EU membership

On Thursday, the Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda met with Frank Walter Steinmeier, President of Germany, who has recently arrived in Lithuania. The leaders of Lithuania and Germany discussed the response
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Vilnius Regional Administrative Court: the requirement for the leaders of educational institutions of Vilnius district

Vilnius Regional Administrative Court rejected a complaint of the representative of the Government in Vilnius and Alytus counties to the mayor of Vilnius District Municipality regarding the obligation to take
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What should the people wanting to use name inherited from ancestors in official documents do?

Bill on writing non-Lithuanian names is to be submitted to a debate of the parliament next week. Even if the act will be adopted, Polish people living in Lithuania still
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Ministry of Justice Issues Recommendations on Spelling Surnames Using Non-Lithuanian Letters

The Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Lithuania has issued recommendations to the Civil Registry Offices that a child’s name be entered using non-Lithuanian letters of the Latin alphabet
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Nationality in the Hands of Politics: Lithuanian-Polish About Names Adapted to Lithuanian Language, Relationship With

The questions of national minorities in Lithuania are pushed aside or, after conflicting the society, remain unresolved. The biggest national minority in Lithuania are the Lithuanian-Polish. According to Lithuanian Department
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The Difficulties That the Students, Belonging to National Minorities, Face, Have Opened up Another Difference

Students, whose mother tongue is not Lithuanian, barely speak it, sometimes don’t at all, except for when they attend Lithuanian language class. This, Irena Baltakiene – the chairwoman of the
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Lithuania is considering to introduce a state Polish language exam

Lithuania is about to consider the possibility of introducing a state examination in Poland’s native language and accepting the results of both this and school exams while enrolling in universities
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A longtime problem of Lithuanian Poles left in Nausėda’s hands: What will the president do?

President Gitanas Nausėda and his First Lady, Diana Nausėdienė, celebrated the beginning of the academic year at schools, along with children. Each of them visited a different area – one
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The Ministry plans to teach pre-schoolers of national minorities in Lithuanian for 5 hours per

The Ministry of Education, Science and Sport (ŠMM) takes the lead in order to improve state language skills among children studying in minority schools. The initiated project, according to which
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Discussions: “How can the elections influence Lithuanian Poles?” – speeches about surnames and tips about

Representatives of many parties are encouraged to join various discussions before elections to the Parliament on October 11. During a debate in the Polish Debate Club, politicians were asked how
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