Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Loreta Graužinienė says she has reservations about cutting value added tax (VAT) rate for vegetables and meat. According to the head of Parliament, only retailers would benefit from VAT rate exemptions, while producers and consumers would not. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has asked Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius to assess potential losses due to Russia‘s latest sanctions and find the best way to absorb these losses. […]
The Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas, Loreta Graužinienė, says she does not agree with the proposal to legalize euthanasia in the country. […]
Lithuanian pig farmers claim that due to African swine fever (ASF) they have suffered losses amounting to LTL 30 million (EUR 8.7 million). […]
While the war in Eastern Ukraine continues, no one can come up with an idea of how to restrain Russia, which responds to international norms cynically and does not want to hear the warnings of the global community. The current sanctions that Russia is subjected to have one main goal, which is to stop the conflict in Eastern Ukraine and force Moscow to stop supporting terrorists in that area. […]
Following the introduction of sanctions on food imports by the Russian Federation, Lithuania’s Minister of Agriculture Virginija Baltraitienė has turned to Italian Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Minister Maurizio Martina, who holds the rotating presidency of the EU Agriculture and Fisheries Council (AGRIFISH), with a request to convene an extraordinary meeting of EU ministers of agriculture as soon as possible, possibly even in August. […]
Representatives of the agricultural sector say they support the plans of the Government to carry out intervention buying and claim that the interests of farmers, suppliers of raw food, should be taken into consideration in the current situation. […]
The first batch of Lithuanian euro coins are being delivered to the Bank of Lithuania‘s vault in Vilnius. On 1 January 2015, they will be released into circulation. The total amount of coins necessary for the euro adoption and to ensure reserves is about 370 million units; their weight – 1,740 tons, says the Bank of Lithuania in a statement. […]
Mažeikiai oil refinery has never been a plum company for the Polish oil refiner PKN Orlen. Now, the situation has gone so sour officials are talking of bankruptcy. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius is soon to move to a new residence in Turniškės, a neighbourhood on the outskirts of Vilnius, says Chancellor of the Government Remigijus Motuzas. […]
Lithuanian MP Marija Aušrinė Pavilionienė of the Social Democratic Party has proposed a bill legalizing euthanasia. […]
Foreign capital companies are rather happy with business conditions in Lithuania, shows Lithuania’s Investors’ Confidence Index. […]
The National Vessel Traffic Monitoring Information System (NVTMIS) was implemented by Lithuanian Maritime Safety Administration. The system will help better secure maritime environment by preventing situations that can pose a threat to the safety of people at sea, the Ministry of Transport and Communications announced. […]
Intervention buying-in by authorities would help Lithuanian farmers cope with the consequences of Russia’s restrictions on the imports of food and farm products, Agriculture Minister Virginija Baltraitiene has said, adding that this measure would be financed from the national budget and the costs would be compensated by the European Commission (EC). […]
Residents of Donetsk wake to the sound of shelling. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė extended congratulations, both personally and on behalf of the Lithuanian people, to President François Hollande of the French Republic on his 60th birthday, press office of the president said. […]
Andrius Kupčinskas, the mayor of Lithuania’s second-largest city Kaunas, and several other municipal officials will undergo basic military skill training for volunteers over the next few weeks, according to the Kauno Diena daily. […]
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