2 July 2026

President Gitanas Nauseda said after meeting parliamentary party leaders that there is agreement to remove the nuclear weapons ban from Lithuania’s constitution. The dispute centres on Article 137, which bars weapons of mass destruction on Lithuanian territory, and any amendment would need at least 94 votes in parliament and a lengthy approval process.

Lithuania was allocated 169 million euros from the EU Modernisation Fund today for energy projects. The funding is tied to a 51-project package across 11 member states and is meant to strengthen grids, improve system flexibility and expand renewable capacity. Epso-G also said it plans to invest more than 4 billion euros in electricity, gas and hydrogen networks. Klaipeda port is still pressing ahead with its southern expansion, a plan that would add about 100 hectares and attract at least 300 million euros in private capital.

The port has also advanced Lithuania’s first green hydrogen production and refuelling point and shore-power electrification, while management looks for a project that eases cargo-space shortages and supports military mobility. Housing prices in Lithuania are rising at one of the fastest rates in the European Union, outpacing both Latvia and Estonia.

In Vilnius Regional Court, the prosecutor filed a new request in the case over the killing of a 15-year-old in Zverynas, where the defendant is a minor born in 2010. Nauseda also said he sees no signs that Kestutis Budrys cannot continue in his duties. A science development with reach in Lithuania also drew attention: University of Minnesota researchers said they had built a fully synthetic cell, SpudCell, that can grow, copy its DNA and divide.

Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged NATO to take an urgent decision to speed up air defence aid to Kyiv, while Ukraine's defence minister asked 40 partner countries to supply missiles for Patriot systems. Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said Lithuania expects Donald Trump to confirm that NATO's Article 5 is unquestionable.