Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) of the Department of Agriculture of the USA published an official offer to include Lithuania into the list of countries from which imports of meat and meat products are permitted and submitted this proposal to public discussion, Lithuania’s State Food and Veterinary Service said. […]
The police of Šiauliai, northern Lithuania, have thanked two soldiers of the Canadian Royal Air Force serving in the NATO air-policing mission in the Baltic states for providing assistance to a victim of a transport accident. […]
The euro which will shortly replace the litas will have a positive effect on the IT services market of Lithuania, however, it will hardly bring any significant changes. Antanas Ursulis, general manager of CSC Baltic which provides IT services, says that the euro will not bring any dramatic changes to working conditions or expectations of employees; nevertheless, the new currency will help Lithuania enhance its image as a reliable and attractive country for investors. […]
Lithuanians are trying to get rid of cash litas before the official date of the euro adoption. On 29 December alone LTL 27 million (EUR 7.8 million) was deposited in SEB Bank‘s ATMs. This is nearly four times more than on an average day. On 29 December the number of customers in the bank’s branches was also twice the average. […]
According to the Central Electoral Commission (VRK), 23 political parties intend to participate in the municipal elections on 1 March 2015. The deadline to submit application documents to the VRK was Monday, 29 December. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė has commented on the new mayoral election procedures and said that the the self-government reform has not been completed and will require additional amendments to the current laws. […]
Lithuania’s Minister of Finance Rimantas Šadžius says that if the economy and wages grow, then raising the minimum monthly salary to EUR 325 from 1 July will not have a negative effect on public finances. […]
Key tasks of the Lithuanian government next year will include search for new markets, fight against shadow economy and successful implementation of energy projects, the prime minister has said. […]
The Western powers are not forming an “anti-Russian” coalition and do not want this country to sink into chaos; however, they do wish relations with Moscow to be based on international agreements, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius says. […]
According to Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius, US Secretary of State John Kerry and German Chancellor Angela Merkel were distinctly active in foreign policy this year. Linkevičius also noticed that the role of personalities has been giving way to coordinated work of institutions and international organisations. […]
Adopting the euro will benefit Lithuania’s domestic businesses and households and will also help lure more foreign investment to the country, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has said. He has recalled the initial difficulties of convincing other politicians to have the euro which almost cost him his post. […]
On Monday, a Moscow court extended the custody of Estonian Security Police (KaPo) official Eston Kohver until 5 April, Estonia’s Public Broadcasting reports. […]
Russia is already preparing for large-scale celebrations to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, and Latvian President Andris Bērziņš has been invited to the event as well. […]
The Russian state’s control of Russian media is well known and thus, it is not surprising that the Russian media had often been used as Moscow’s tool abroad. The prevalence of the Russian language and the sizeable Russian minorities in Estonia and Latvia facilitate receptiveness to Russian language media. […]
AB ITAB Novena, a Swedish producer of equipment for shops, will build a new 10,000-square-metre factory close to its current plant in Kaunas. Construction of the new facility, which will receive LTL 10 million (EUR 2.9 million) of investment, will begin next summer, Invest Lithuania said. […]
Lithuania’s national radio LRT gave the Person of the Year title to Lithuania’s ambassador to Ukraine Petras Vaitiekūnas. He was awarded for his “diplomatic courage”. […]
Russia is trying to justify its own aggression by mixing up the causes and consequences in its new military doctrine which names NATO as the key threat, Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas said on Monday. […]
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