The construction of the physical barrier on the most important, approximately 111-kilometer-long border sections with Belarus will be performed by UAB Tetas, a company of the EPSO-G group. The decision was approved by the Project Supervision Commission headed by the Prime Minister. On Monday, the Commission approved ...

The more than 500-kilometres-long physical barrier project will be implemented in two phases, with the first works on the most important 100-kilometre stretch starting in the second half of September. This was decided on Saturday by the Commission for the Supervision of the Project of the Physical ...

On Monday, the Cabinet has approved a proposal by the Ministry of the Interior to install a physical barrier on the border with Belarus. It will be 508 km long. The Government has also decided that the project will be carried out by the EPSO-G group of companies run by the Ministry of Energy.

Today in Šalčininkai District, at the section administered by Gintaras Žagunis frontier station, Belarusian force structures armed with shields and riot control equipment have forcibly pushed a group of 35 irregular migrants into the Republic of Lithuania and have entered the territory of Lithuania themselves. The officials of the ...

An illegal group of migrants accompanied possibly by a service car and its occupants was captured by the FRONTEX' helicopter participating in the operation in Šalčininkai district.

Yesterday Agnė Bilotaitė, head of emergency state operations, adopted a decision instructing all institutions ensuring the protection of the state border of the Republic of Lithuania to additionally take all necessary statutory measures to protect the state border of the Republic of Lithuania and measures not creating preconditions for illegal entry into ...

Today, the Government has decided to resume the state of national emergency for the threat of the spread of the coronavirus infection (COVID-19), with effect from 1 July 2021.

Following today’s extraordinary meeting of the Government Emergency Commission chaired by Minister of the Interior Agnė Bilotaitė, the Government has approved the Commission’s proposal concerning restrictions on the movement of persons between municipalities until 31 January 2021.

The adverse epidemic coronavirus (COVID-19) situation in Lithuania has necessitated further tightening of the lockdown rules by restricting the size of gatherings , banning the operation of temporary vendors in malls and supermarkets. It has also been recommended to discontinue short-term sales promotion measures to bring down visitor flows.

On 2 December, the Government has decided to issue Lithuanian national visas free of charge to regime-persecuted Belarusians. The proposal was brought forward by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In view of the adverse epidemic coronavirus (COVID-19) situation in Lithuania and in the world, the Government decided on Wednesday to extend the lockdown until 17 December. The Cabinet has removed however restriction from visits to museums and galleries for groups of maximum 2 people as of 10 December 2020.  This will also apply to tours in ...