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Potential presidential candidates begin saying what voters want to hear

October 23, 2017 Media Briefing 0

Potential candidates in the presidential election have begun talking about social segregation and strengthening the regions and this helps them draw attention, notes political scientist Tomas Janeliūnas and economist Romas Lazutka. “For now this is […]

30.1% of Lithuania’s population at poverty line in 2016 – Eurostat

October 16, 2017 BNS 0

Some 30.1 percent of Lithuania’s residents were at the poverty line last year, which is one of the bigger indicators across Europe, shows the latest information from Eurostat. The percentage was up 1.8 percentage points since 2008. […]

Scandalous alcohol data is analyzed: there is an important mistake in formulas and conclusions

May 19, 2017 Egle Samoskaite 0

Lithuania has some of the strictest alcohol control restrictions now but alcohol consumption in the country remains very high, says the Chairman of the public institution “European Social, Legal and Economic Projects” (ESTEP) Klaudijus Maniokas. […]

Budget 2017 – who will be better of next year?

December 27, 2016 LT Daily 0

The President and the new government have stressed a number of times that one of the greatest tasks for next year would be to reduce social segregation. The 2017 budget allocates over half a billion euro to social needs. The Prime Minister promises larger pensions, wages are to rise for educators, police officers. However the Seimas opposition says that without structural reform, it will be difficult to reduce poverty and social segregation. […]

Economists say statistics do not show the real poverty situation in Lithuania

July 29, 2016 LT Daily 0

Statistics Lithuania has announced data showing that 22.2% of Lithuania‘s population risked falling into poverty last year. Economists were quick to note that this trend repeats year after year, but that statistics do not show […]

Over one fifth of Lithuanians face poverty

July 27, 2016 BNS 0

Some 640,000 of Lithuania‘s population, or 22.2%, were below the poverty risk line in 2015, up by 3.1 points year-on-year, according to a survey of incomes and living conditions carried out by the country’s statistics office.

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Economic growth widens income gap in Lithuania

November 11, 2015 DELFI EN 0

While average pay in Lithuania has been growing uninterruptedly for some years now, part of the population still have not felt much improvement in their financial lot. […]

Lithuanian PM disagrees that income gap is growing

November 10, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has contested suggestions that social exclusion in the country is growing. […]

Over fourth of Lithuania’s population at risk of poverty

October 16, 2015 ELTA EN 0

In 2014, 27.3 percent of Lithuania’s population or 800,000 people were at risk of poverty or social exclusion, in comparison with 28.3 percent (910,000) in 2008, Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union (EU), reports. […]

One in five Lithuanians below poverty risk line

August 21, 2015 BNS 0

Some 560,000 people in Lithuania, or 19.1 percent of the country’s population, were below the poverty risk line last year, down by 1.5 percentage points compared with 2013, according to a survey of incomes and living conditions carried out by the country’s statistics office. […]

Almost third of Lithuanians face poverty risk

November 4, 2014 BNS 0

Some 30.8 percent of the Lithuanian population were at risk of poverty or social exclusion in 2013, figures from the EU statistical office Eurostat shows. […]

One in five Lithuanians at risk of falling into poverty

August 28, 2014 BNS 0

Some 610,000 people in Lithuania, or 20.6 percent of the population, lived below the poverty risk line last year, 2 percentage points more compared with 2012, according to a survey of incomes and living conditions carried out by the country’s statistics office. […]

After Nausėda meeting with Budrys, the opposition retorts to the candidate’s “cooling off “

November 22, 2024 0

Kęstutis Budrys, the President’s Senior Adviser, who has been nominated for the post of Minister of foreign affairs, does not say whether he first discussed the possibility of taking up the post with President Gitanas […]

“No need to mince words”: an assessment of what Trump’s victory means for Lithuania

November 6, 2024 0

“We can shout very loudly, but it won’t change the position of the American people,” says Professor Tomas Janeliūnas, as the winner of the United States of America’s (USA) presidential election, which will almost certainly […]

Another year in the sovereign history of Kazakhstan

October 24, 2024 0

Republic Day has been celebrated in Kazakhstan as the main national date since 2022, giving new life to the fundamental document on state sovereignty—the Declaration of October 25, 1990. The Republic is a modern form […]

In the assessment of NATO’s readiness for war with Russia, there is also a warning about the Baltic states: what is the Kremlin’s wild card?

October 23, 2024 0

According to Lrytas.lt, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) faces a new geopolitical reality with the large-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. While the Alliance has begun responding to emerging threats, its readiness for […]

These parties will enter the Seimas for the third time in a row. How many votes did they lose, and how many did they gain?

October 15, 2024 0

As various parties emerge, disappear or reorganize themselves in the political space, the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP), the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats – TS-LKD) and the Liberal Movement are making […]