Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says he’s astonished by the statement made by the president who said the country would probably be refused the requested European Union (EU) support to the dairy sector. […]
Lithuania’s government on Wednesday gave its approval to the designation of diplomat Ina Marčiulionytė as the country’s new ambassador to China. […]
Falling stocks in China and other emerging markets will not have a major direct impact on Lithuania, whose export to India, China and the Southeast Asia amounts to less than 1 percent of the total export. What will pose more problems is the decreasing purchasing power in Russia and other countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States. However, cheaper oil will save the situation, says Rokas Grajauskas, Baltic Analyst at Danske Bank. […]
A joint article by Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Economics Minister Gabriel advocating a European asylum system based on the principle of solidarity. Published in the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung” on 23 August 2015. […]
On August 21 in the manor house of Katthamragarden, in Katthammarsvik on the island of Gotland (Sweden), the 26th anniversary of the historic meeting which prompted signing the Act of March 11, 1990 was honored. This marks the 25th anniversary of the restoration of Lithuanian statehood. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that pensions may be raised somewhat next January, rather than in July as planned earlier, adding that the size of the increase will depend on the country’s economic situation. […]
Troops of the Hungarian Air Forces with their JAS-39 Gripen fighter-jets are coming to Lithuania on Thursday for their 1st shift in NATO’s Baltic air-policing mission, the Lithuanian Defence Ministry said. […]
Charge d’affaires of the Lithuanian Embassy to China will represent the country in a military parade in Beijing next week, the Foreign Ministry said. […]
One of the most active members of the so-called “Latvian anti-fascist committee” and organiser of the 16 March rally against Latvian legionnaires at the Freedom Monument Josifs Korens has been prohibited from entering Lithuania. […]
Lithuania intends to resettle 70 persons from refugee camps in Turkey. “We have an embassy in Turkey, which will make it easier for us to handle the documents and communicate with the people, carry out selection and checks,” Interior Vice-Minister Elvinas Jankevičius told BNS in his explanation of the reasons behind the choice of the country. […]
Jewish Orthodox rabbis visiting Lithuania on August 26 have inquired about the government’s and the Vilnius municipality’s plans of renovating the former Sports Palace building in the territory of a Jewish cemetery ( the old Jewish cemetery known as Piramont – TLT). […]
The latest statistical data has revealed that in the second quarter of 2015, compared with the previous quarter, the average number of employed people increased by 9,900 (+0.8 percent). Employment growth shows that the number of job vacancies has also increased, especially in the private sector. […]
Lithuania strongly condemns today’s decision by the Rostov-on-Don Court of the Russian Federation to sentence the Ukrainian citizens Oleg Sentsov and Oleksandr Kolchenko, reads the letter sent by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin on 25 August, Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported. […]
On 23 August, Lithuanians living abroad commemorated the Black Ribbon Day and the Baltic Way or the Baltic Chain, when 26 years ago freedom seekers joined their hands to form a human chain spanning across Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. […]
Swedish logistics company Green Cargo may soon join Lithuanian Railway’s container train project Viking. Moreover, details are being harmonised with Finnish company Steveco regarding test runs with Viking to Turkey. It is thought that the first journey could take place already in September. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė has received an invitation to the next year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, the President’s Office confirmed to BNS on August 25. […]
Lithuanian and Polish border guards have carried out a two-stage operation aimed at cracking down on illegal immigrants and their smugglers, the State Border Guard Service said on August 25. […]
Danish businessman Bas Lansdorp, CEO of Mars One, a company that plans space expeditions to Mars, will be speaking in the second Vilnius Innovation Forum ‘Innovation Drift‘, organised by the Ministry of Economy of Lithuania. The objective of an ambitious project is not only to take people to Mars but also to provide habitable conditions to live in the red planet independently, www.innovationdrift.com reported. […]
Poland’s new Defence Attaché to Lithuania Colonel Miroslaw Wojcik to be accredited on 25 August. […]
Statistics Lithuania has announced that at the end of the second quarter of 2015 there were 13,400 job vacancies for salaried employees. […]
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