Nerijus Numavičius, chairman of the management board at VP Grupė which owns grocery store chain Maxima, remains the richest person in Lithuania with estimated assets of 1.3 billion euros, according to a list of the country’s wealthiest people published by the IQ magazine. […]
The European Commission has published its annual report on how it monitored the application of Union law in 2014. Twenty one new infringement cases were opened against Lithuania in 2014. […]
If it transpires that German rifles Heckler & Koch G36 are unreliable, other alternatives will be sought, says Lithuania’s National Defence Minister Juozas Olekas. […]
Vilnius City Municipality has turned to the Prosecutor General‘s Office asking to investigate if the capital of airline Air Lituanica was formed legally. […]
Lithuania will accept 85 refugees from third countries, says Vice-Minister of the Interior Elvinas Jankevičius. EU interior minister are also scheduled to hold talks on the relocation of migrants from Greece and Italy on July 20. […]
Lithuania’s major online news outlets had their operations disturbed late Thursday night. Experts suspect preparations for a major cyber attack against Lithuania. […]
Economist Dr.Zoltan Pogatsa believes that the Eurozone states of the former Eastern bloc have been duped by the major powers into firmly opposing Greece. They are being led to believe that Athens is damaging to their economies. It’s all a deception, the Hungarian professional of political economy argues, as Eastern Eurozone members’ money never actually went to Greece, but to Brussels, in order to support the euro. […]
If we all sat at a table in a tavern, having fun eating and drinking and then decided to vote if we wanted to pay the bill or not, the chances are that most would vote to pay the bill. What would a table like that look like from the side as it flaunts the results of that vote, demanding that the customers’ opinion be respected and their vote not be trampled on? […]
Lithuanian political scientist Ramūnas Vilpišauskas, director of the Institute of International Relations and Political Science at Vilnius University, says that the Greek government is realizing the ineffectiveness of its combative position and is now trying to look for allies in Europe. […]
Europeans are starting to realize how sombre the situation is for the Greek people and sympathize with their plight, says Dimitris Papanikolaou, academic from Oxford University. The austerity measures imposed on Greece have done little to get the country out of debt and a lot to dismantle welfare provisions and workers’ rights. The fight to prevent this, he says, is not Greece’s alone – the Europe we joined is a Europe that ensures the minimum of dignified life for everyone. […]
Flanders Investment & Trade (FIT) will open its representative office for the Baltic States in Vilnius in 2016. The government of Flanders has adopted the decision with an aim to engage with a dynamic Baltic region more actively, Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports. […]
Mediafon, Telecommunications and IT Company, operating in 4 continents with strong presence in the Baltics, establishes holding company to further boost profits, Arūnas Babrauskas, the CEO at Mediafon and Member of the Board said Thursday. […]
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says that Russia is not interested in escalating the armed conflict in Eastern Ukraine, but the Kremlin finds it difficult to withdraw from the conflict without losing face on the international arena and inside the country. […]
Lithuania plans to buy Boxer armoured fighting vehicles from Germany, the spokesman for the Lithuanian chief of defence confirmed to BNS on Thursday, adding that the proposal would be submitted to the State Defence Council. […]
As the European Union launches talks on refugee distribution, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says accepting several hundred refugees is not only a challenge but also an opportunity to solve the problem of short workforce supply. […]
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says that Lithuania is not seeking particular quotas or figures as regards the migrant issue, however, it wants the criteria according to which refugees are distributed among the member-states to be transparent and correspondent to the country’s actual possibilities of taking in people. […]
China‘s stock market plunge may affect EU and global trade, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said on Thursday. […]
Vilnius authorities plan to start the removal of the Soviet Green Bridge statues next week and it will take up to two week to complete the work, a spokesman for the municipality said on Thursday. […]
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