While populism has come to be regarded as a catch-all culprit for many of the ills befalling Europe and the world today, how does it overlap with the domain of competition law? This was the question addressed by Šarūnas Keserauskas, the Chairman of the Competition Council of Lithuania, during the European Business Network’s (EBN) recent event hosted at Holiday Inn hotel in Vilnius. […]
The Russian efforts to undermine stability in Europe has been in the news throughout the Western world, but nowhere else is the threat felt as acutely as in the Baltic States. The European Business Network invited its members to hear about NATO’s work to counter the threat in the Baltics, a press release from the network states. […]
The European Business Network (EBN) presented on Thursday as part of their monthly breakfast presentation ‘Work and employment of persons with disabilities’ in Vilnius. The minister of Social Security Linas Kukuraitis, himself a former Lecturer of Social Work at Vilnius University was the keynote speaker. Jonas Ruškus, Professor at Vytautas Magnus University, a specialist in employment for disabled people and a member of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities of the United Nations spoke about the situation of disabled people in Lithuania, the challenges and the progress made so far. […]
Media can be a veritable minefield these days and the European Business Network invited its members and business breakfast guests to learn a little about talking to and consuming the media. The speaker, Ludo Segers, gave a fascinating presentation about the state of affairs and offered some valuable insights into “what to do when you become the news”. […]
The General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, may sound like one more arcane package of rules coming from Brussels, but saying it’s “a big deal” does not even begin to cover it. The directive will affect every company inside the EU, as well as those outside the EU, doing business with EU citizens when it comes into effect on 25 May. Preparing for it requires quite extensive legal and IT resources. Aurelija Rutkauskaitė, attorney at the legal firm Triniti, and Stein Ove Sektnan, managing director at customer relations management firm SuperOffice, acquainted the attendees of the monthly European Business Network business breakfast with the challenges of meeting the GDPR and offered tips how to deal with them. […]
Girteka Logistics may be Lithuania’s best-kept secret, at least inside its home country. By far the biggest transportation company in Europe, it aspires to lead the way in management culture, corporate transparency and growth. The European Business Network, during their most recent monthly meeting, was let in on the secret success of the company. […]
“Do robots have brothers or sisters? – No, only transistors.” A joke uttered by an actual robot, the friendly little guy Nao from Robotikos Akademija, underlined the point that robots today are endowed with many human-like faculties, including a sense of humour. […]
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