Based on provisional data, in August 2014, the turnover (VAT excluded) of retail trade enterprises (except of motor vehicles and motorcycles) amounted to LTL 2.6984 billion (EUR 782 million); against July, it decreased by 1.1 percent at constant prices (seasonally adjusted – by 0.1 percent), Statistics Lithuania said. […]
Tallinn University of Technology professor Rainer Kattel writes in Postimees that because of the European debt crisis and the Ukraine crisis, the outlook for the Estonian economy remains bleak. […]
The number of members of political parties in Lithuania has increased in 2013, while membership in trade unions has gone down, shows statistical data published on Friday. […]
Russia is violating fundamental principles of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), thus undermining European security, Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says. […]
The Council of Europe has warned Lithuania over its failure to adopt laws that would allow sex change surgeries. […]
Lithuania will join the coalition under creation against jihadists in Iraq and Syria by sending medication in response to calls from the United States, the Ministry of National Defence said. […]
Global peace is not a self-evident fact but common responsibility of all countries, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has said in her speech at the general debate of the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly. […]
National defence funding will be increased by 400 million litas (over EUR 115 million) next year, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said on Friday after the ruling coalition’s Friday discussion of the 2015 national budget. […]
An interview with Andras Racz, a Senior Research Fellow at the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs. […]
The board of Achema Group held a meeting on Friday and decided to dismiss Romualdas Zadeika, who had been acting as the company’s provisional managing director, vz.lt reports. […]
Former Lithuanian Minister of Finance and now deputy chair of the central Bank of Lithuania Ingrida Šimonytė has decided against running for Vilnius mayor. […]
Members of the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) Rimantas Dagys and Kazys Starkevičius have asked the Ministry of Social Security and Labour what actions the ministry undertook over possible mass dismissals of employees. […]
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says political scientists should be the vanguard in the context of recent events in Ukraine and amidst the information war. […]
Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius participated at the high-level event over limiting the use of the veto right at the United Nations Security Council in case of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity. […]
Direct mayoral elections may lead to the society’s disappointment in the long run, if powers of city leaders are not revised, say political experts of Lithuania. […]
People in the Baltic states cannot feel secure. Russian President Vladimir Putin has a plan he has been working on for over a decade. So says former adviser to President Putin, Andrey Illarionov. […]
Russian courts could get the green light to seize foreign assets on Russian territory under a draft law intended as a response to Western sanctions over the Ukraine crisis, The Moscow Times reports. […]
A march will take place in old-town Vilnius on Friday to mark the 500th anniversary of victory against Russia in the Battle of Orsha. […]
Ambassadors of European Union (EU) member-states on Thursday finalized positions on postponement of the free trade agreement with Ukraine. The document incorporates safeguards, suggested by Lithuania, intended to curb Russia‘s future pressure, Lithuania’s ambassador says. […]
European Parliament President Martin Schulz has sent a letter to European Parliament Member from Latvia Tatjana Zdanoka (Latvian Union of Russians), telling her that he has immediately informed the proper authorities in Ukraine regarding her comments about Crimea, which are “in contradiction to the EU’s stance”. […]
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