June 2015 - Page 3 of 18 - the Lithuania Tribune

Energy accounted for 26.5 percent of Lithuania’s total industry in 2014

June 27, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Statistics Lithuania said that it has released the annual publication Production of Commodities 2014. […]

Some 80 Lithuanian tourists are in Tunisian resort of Sousse

June 27, 2015 BNS 0

Some 210 tourists from Lithuania are currently in Tunisia and 80 of them are in the town of Sousse, where nearly 40 people were killed in a terror attack on Friday, the tour operator Novaturas said on Saturday. […]

Lithuanian president warns about widening budget deficit

June 27, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuania’s increasing budget deficit is a cause for concern, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said after the European Council approved the European Commission’s country-specific recommendations to boost growth. […]

Kaunas commemorates brutal WWII Jewish pogrom

June 26, 2015 BNS 0

The massacre of Jews at the Lietūkis garage 74 years ago was one of the most brutal not only in Lithuania but also Europe, Gercas Zakas, the leader of the Jewish community in Lithuania’s second-largest city of Kaunas, said during a commemoration ceremony on Friday. […]

New shift of Lithuanian troops seen off to NATO mission in Afghanistan

June 26, 2015 BNS 0

A formal deployment ceremony was held at the headquarters of the Joint Staff of the Lithuanian Armed Forces in Vilnius on Friday for yet another shift of Lithuanian soldiers joining the NATO mission in Afghanistan. […]

Lithuanian and London police cooperate on investigation into human trafficking

June 26, 2015 BNS 0

Officers from the London Metropolitan Police‘s trafficking and kidnap unit visited the Lithuanian western port of Klaipėda as the two forces are carrying out an investigation into human trafficking by an organized criminal group. […]

Lithuanian Artūras Gudaitis has been granted an opportunity to play in the NBA

Basketball: Gudaitis ends Klaipėda’s NBA draft drought

June 26, 2015 Alex Tigani 0

Thursday night Artūras Gudaitis was added to the long list of Žalgiris Kaunas products to have been drafted into the NBA. […]

Lithuanian defence chief pledges to strengthen rapid response forces

June 26, 2015 BNS 0

Chief of Defence of Lithuania Lieutenant General Jonas Vytautas Žukas visited the Joint Staff of the Lithuanian Armed Forces on Thursday and pledged to strengthen the country’s rapid response forces. […]

Bank of Lithuania introduces new macro-prudential policy instrument

June 26, 2015 ELTA EN 0

In an effort to counter pro-cyclicality in the financial system and strengthen the credit institutions’ capital base during periods of excessive credit growth, the Bank of Lithuania begins applying a new macroprudential policy instrument, counter-cyclical capital buffer. […]

Lithuanian president: Mediterranean migrant crisis needs more serious solution

June 26, 2015 BNS 0

The European Council’s decision to relocate 40,000 refuges from Greece and Italy to other EU member states over the next two years is a symbolic step, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says, adding that the migration problem needs a more serious solution. […]

Lithuanian opposition parties to snub national agreement on emigration

June 26, 2015 BNS 0

A national agreement on emigration, initiated by Lithuania’s ruling Order and Justice party, has failed to secure the support of the country’s key political parties. Major opposition parties have no plans of signing it, the Lietuvos Žinios daily reports. […]

Lithuanian government approves candidates for ambassadors in US, South Africa and Switzerland

June 26, 2015 BNS 0

The Government of Lithuania on Friday approved candidates for three ambassadorial positions. […]

EU leaders agree on relocation of 40,000 refugees

June 26, 2015 BNS 0

EU leaders have agreed that 40,000 refugees will be relocated from Greece and Italy to other EU member states over the next two years. The relocation of refugees will be based on solidarity and national integration capacities rather than mandatory quotas. […]

Two Lithuanian co-productions receive Eurimages funding

June 26, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Eurimages, the Council of Europe‘s film support fund, extended a grant of EUR 50,000 to the film Deadweight directed by Ignas Miškinis. The film is produced by Tremora (Lithuania) and coproduced by Film Angels Productions (Latvia), reports the Lithuanian Film Centre. […]

Nordic, Baltic and Poland are Europe’s new front-line states, security report says

June 26, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Europe’s new front-line states are the Nordic countries, Baltic countries, plus Poland, which share a common concern about a “revisionist and rapidly-rearming Russia”, according to the Baltic Sea Security Report by the Centre for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). […]

Free movement is fundamental for EU, Lithuanian leader tells Cameron

June 26, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with British Prime Minister David Cameron in Brussels on Thursday and stressed that any EU reform must not undermine free movement of people, goods, services and capital. […]

Lithuanian ambassador in Moscow: Balancing political estrangement and cultural closeness

June 26, 2015 Linas Jegelevicius 0

With the creepy chill in the Lithuanian-Russian relations, the aftermath of the geopolitical square-off between Moscow and Western powers, the trade, amazingly, has taken the beating until this year quite well. “Quite paradoxically, the scope of Russia-bound Lithuanian export rose throughout 2014, while Russia was already gripped by Western economic sanctions,” Remigijus Motuzas, Lithuania’s ambassador to Russia, tells the Lithuania Tribune. This year, bilateral trade has started taking a hit, however. The Lithuanian Embassy in Moscow nevertheless keeps bustling as visitors are unfazed by the roughed up relations. […]