Following a conversation of Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius and Culture Minister Šarūnas Birutis, who was instructed to sack his deputy minister Vytautas Vigelis within a week, the Labour Party‘s leader Valentinas Mazuronis rushed off to the Government’s Office. The politician is convinced that the deputy minister was appointed lawfully, although the PM insists that Vigelis should be fired. […]
If they were able to choose the chief of the company they work for, only every thirtieth Lithuanian would like to be led by another Lithuanian, while every third of them would like their chief to be someone from a Western country, a poll conducted by cvmarket.lt reveals. […]
An additional 3-million-euro loan issued by SEB Bankas to Lietuvos Jūrų Laivininkystė (Lithuanian Shipping Company, or LJL), a financially-troubled Lithuanian shipping company with debts of more than 20 million euros, is a temporary solution, a deputy transport minister has admitted. […]
Some 44 cases of measles were reported in Lithuania this year by July 27, including 11 infected children and 33 adults. […]
Dalia Henke, the new leader of the Lithuanian World Community (PLB), says that expatriate Lithuanians agree to the planned referendum on dual citizenship only on three conditions. […]
Eurocopter 145 helicopter of the Lithuanian State Border Guard Service is leaving for the Mediterranean region on Monday to join the operation Poseidon 2015 aimed at countering illegal migration. […]
The actions of the far-right group the Right Sector in Ukraine does not contribute to reforms and stability in the country, says Lithuania’s Ambassador Marius Janukonis. […]
There was a time right after World War Two when Lithuanians believed that the United States of America would swoop into a Soviet-occupied country and drive the Soviets away. These hopes were rather baseless, yet the USA did stand by its policy not to recognise the annexation of the Baltic states. The start of this policy is believed to be July 23rd, 1940, with the declaration to this effect by US State Secretary Sumner Welles. […]
In June 2015 industrial production totalled EUR 1.7 billion at current prices and, compared to May, grew by 4.4 percent at constant prices, seasonally and working day adjusted – by 0.8 percent, Statistics Lithuania reports. […]
The innovative fund-of-funds investment initiative – the Baltic Innovation Fund (BIF), dedicated to boosting equity investments made into Baltic enterprises, launched by Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia and the European Investment Fund (EIF), has been increased. The EUR 30 million increase of BIF is expected to translate into an additional EUR 100 million of private equity and venture capital funding available in the Baltic States over the next 5-7 years, Startup Lithuania reports. […]
Lithuania, which is competing for participating in Euro 2016 in France against England and Slovenia in Group F, will face these teams also in the clashes for the tickets to the FIFA World Cup that will take place in Russia in 2018. […]
Statistics Lithuania has carried out a survey on the use of information and communications technology (ICT) in Lithuanian companies. It has shown that all production and services companies with 10 and more employees were using computers and broadband internet. 64.5 percent of companies were using mobile broadband services provided by mobile network operators (53.3 percent in 2014). 13.6 percent of employees used mobile internet access for work purposes (11.4 percent in 2014). […]
It was a tough, long tournament with a lot of sweat and emotions and with an enthusiastic and supporting crowd. But in the end, with two titles in his hands, Laurynas Grigelis is doubtlessly Lithuania’s new king of clay. On Saturday, the 23-year-old Lithuanian won his second singles title in a home court of the President’s Cup. […]
Laurynas Grigelis continues to dominate the President’s Cup international ITF tournament in Vilnius. The Lithuanian already won one title paired with Lukas Mugevičius in doubles. Grigelis’s next target is the singles title. […]
Vilnius City Municipality intends to reconstruct Vokiečių Street, one of the most important locations in Vilnius Old Town. Proposals will be submitted and discussions will last until September. However, it is unclear when the actual work will break ground. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius opposes the appointment of Vytautas Vigelis as Deputy Minister of Culture. The prime minister says the nomination was not coordinated with him and, therefore, is illegal. […]
Most of the time history can’t be put to bed even though agreements to end wars have been concluded, victors have drawn new boundary lines, promises made, but they soon get either forgotten or swept under the rug, as if they weren’t there. The story of the northern part of former East Prussia (now known as the Kaliningrad exclave) is a good example of a conveniently ignored agreement made at the 1945 Potsdam conference to resolve the fate of the territory at a later peace treaty with Germany. […]
Following a prolonged public debate, this week Vilnius authorities have removed four groups of Soviet-era statues that have stood on the Green Bridge since the early 1950s. What remain are four empty-looking pedestals overlooking the banks of the Neris River. People of Vilnius have already started making proposals for what should replace the old statues. […]
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