In 2014 the number of recipients of old-age pensions paid by the State Social Insurance Fund (Sodra) decreased by a thousand to 599,600. By the end of 2014, as much as 923,200 people received at least one type of pension, i.e., one in three Lithuanians. […]
The importance of exports in services for Lithuanian trade has been growing in recent years, and with the growth of the need for analytical information on this sector, the Bank of Lithuania updated the published country’s balance of payments statistical data and from now on it will publish information in accordance with the countries that are Lithuania’s key partners in the service trade, the central bank said in a statement. […]
On 1 June, the Lithuanian Government is to open a Consulate General in Los Angeles, CA. During a ceremony that will take place in the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, the Lithuanian Foreign Minister, Linas Linkevicius, will officially open the third Lithuanian Consulate General in the USA. […]
David Suchet is a famous English actor of Lithuanian descent who has starred in more than 100 TV films and movies. He is a Shakespearean actor of the stage but is best known for playing Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in the British TV drama, Agatha Christie’s ‘Poirot,’ which has been screening on TVs all around the world for 26 years. […]
Lithuanian MEP Valentinas Mazuronis, formerly a member of the Order and Justice party, was elected as the leader of the Labour Party on Saturday. […]
About 40 soldiers of the Lithuanian National Defence Volunteer Forces will start an exercise in the United States with US troops on Monday. […]
The number of smokers in Lithuania has decreased slightly in the past three years, the latest Eurobarometer survey has shown. […]
The expectations of commercial banks about real estate prices have changed essentially over a year – there have remained almost no banks projecting housing price increases, while last spring such banks represented more than a half, said the Bank of Lithuania. […]
Although more than half of Lithuanians believe their knowledge of personal finance planning is “good” and a third think that it is at least “average”, as many as 45 percent of those surveyed would have difficulties to pay for unexpected expenses of up to EUR 300. […]
Member of Vilnius City Municipality Council Mykolas Majauskas was elected Chairman of the Conference of Vilnius chapters of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD). He received 56 percent of the vote on Thursday. […]
Presided by Lithuania, the United Nations (UN) Security Council on Friday urged member-states to be more active in their efforts against foreign fighters joining extremist organizations in Syria and Iraq. […]
The Lithuanian government on Friday approved in principle a draft social model, which is meant to liberalize labour relations and reorganize the system of social insurance. […]
The Merchants’ Club in Vilnius will host the seventh consecutive Blossom of Hope gala, organised by International Women’s Association of Vilnius (IWAV) on Saturday, May 30, in its fight against breast cancer. […]
The Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed it has contacted the Lithuanian citizen who has been arrested in Moscow on spying charges, Aristidas Tamošaitis. According to the ministry, the Lithuanian national is feeling well and does not want his Russian state-appointed lawyer replaced. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with Marshal of the Polish Senate Bogdan Borusewicz, Chairman of Ukraine‘s Verkhovna Rada Volodymyr Groysman, and Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Loreta Graužinienė, who are participating in the sixth session of the Interparliamentary Assembly of Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine. The meeting focused on the security situation in the region, the situation in Ukraine, and enhanced interparliamentary cooperation between the three countries, said the presidential press service. […]
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius intends to submit to the Lithuanian parliament amended laws on labour relations and social security as soon as possible. Therefore the Government will discuss the new social model for the last time on 8 June. […]
Statistics Lithuania has carried out a business tendency survey. The survey of directors of companies has revealed that a less optimistic industrial production forecast in May negatively affected industrial business tendencies. […]
Over 2.6 million people in the three Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia watched at least one broadcast of the Eurovision song contest last week, TNS LT market research company said. […]
Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius will on Friday preside over a meeting of the United Nations (UN) Security Council on instruments against foreign fighters joining extremist organizations, such as the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. […]
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