Economy
Month: April 2015
Politics
Lithuania’s social security minister says she will not resign despite opposition’s calls
Although the Liberal Movement has threatened to initiate an interpellation against Lithuania’s Social Security and Labour Minister Algimanta Pabedinskienė, the latter has no intention of resigning on her own accord. […]
Politics
Lithuanian parliament to return to name-spelling issue in May
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius stated on Wednesday that the ruling Social Democratic Party will submit a bill in May on allowing non-Lithuanian names to be spelled originally in Latin characters. […]
Society
Politics
Lithuanian education minister meets with PM and president to discuss rift with his party
Lithuania’s Education and Science Minister Dainius Pavalkis met with Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius and President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Wednesday to discuss his party’s calls for him to resign. […]
Economy
Norway’s Storebrand opens new training centre in Vilnius
Norwegian banking and insurance company Storebrand officially launched its brand new training centre in Vilnius. […]
Foreign affairs
Former CEO of Lithuania’s VAE receives award from Japanese government
Rimantas Vaitkus, former CEO of Lithuania’s Visagino Atominė Elektrinė (Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant, or VAE), has been given a Japanese state award for fostering ties between Lithuania and Japan. […]
Global LT
State visit underscores strong ties between Japan and USA
The first State visit to the USA by a Japanese prime minister in a decade highlights the gentle change of US policy in the Pacific area. It was a big event in Washington. The two leaders visited together the Lincoln Memorial. In addition to several high profile events on Tuesday, the Japanese Prime Minister is addressing both the House and Senate on Wednesday. That is something his grandfather did before him, more than 60 years ago. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuania opens honorary consulate in Saudi Arabia
Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius on Tuesday opened an honorary consulate in Saudi Arabia‘s second-largest city Jeddah. […]
Economy
Port CEO: Expansion will make Klaipėda more competitive
Expansion of the Lithuanian port of Klaipėda will make it more competitive vis-à-vis other ports in the region as it will be able to handle larger ships and increase reloadings simultaneously, the port’s CEO has said. […]
Defence
A war of civilizations: diverging approaches to warfare and Russia’s military reform
Deividas Šlekys, military expert and lecturer at Vilnius University, discusses the nature of warfare and how it has transformed under liberal democracy. […]
Society
Eight Russian bikers sent back at Lithuanian border
A total of eight motorcyclists were refused entry to Lithuania on Monday and Tuesday because they did not have all necessary documents, the State Border Guard Service said. […]
Uncategorized
Polish president: Many EU countries want to lift sanctions on Russia
Many European Union countries want to lift the sanctions on Russia, Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski said in an interview with the newspaper Dziennik Gazeta Prawna. […]
Defence
NATO jets scrambled from Šiauliai over Russian transport plane
NATO air policing fighter-jets were on Tuesday scrambled from a base in Šiauliai, northern Lithuania, to accompany a Russian transport airplane en route to the Kaliningrad region. […]
Society
Lithuania’s top court to hold meeting on sanctioning wiretapping
Rimvydas Norkus, president of the Supreme Court of Lithuania, is calling a meeting of heads of regional courts on sanctioning monitoring of personal information transmitted via electronic networks. […]
Economy
Lithuania signs EUR 100m loan agreement with NIB
The Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) and the Republic of Lithuania have signed a loan agreement, totalling EUR 100 million, with a maturity of 20 years, to improve energy efficiency in public and residential buildings, Lithuania’s Ministry of Finance reports. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuania’s MFA among best connected foreign ministries on Twitter
Lithuanian Foreign Affairs Ministry’s (MFA) Twitter account is among the top five most mutually connected accounts of world leaders on Twitter. […]
Ukraine official says Kiev is getting weapons from EU
Ukraine is receiving weapons from some European Union countries, according to Ukraine’s deputy head of the president’s administration. […]
Society
Kaunas police investigate inscriptions inciting ethnic discord
Inscriptions inciting ethnic discord have been spotted in several places in Kaunas, Lithuania’s second largest city, over the last few days. […]
Opinion
Opinion: Leader and democracy
Nobody takes much notice when the leader of any Western country stays out of the public eye for a period of time. And this is because the state has a governance structure which provides for substituting one official with another, if need be, all the way to the top. […]