Energy
Electricity prices in Lithuania fell by 12%
The average electricity price in the Nord Pool Spot Lithuanian bidding area on 17-23 August was EUR 45.54/MWh. Compared with the previous week, the price fell by 12 percent. […]
Month: August 2015
Economy
Court starts bankruptcy proceedings for Air Lituanica
A court on August 25 opened bankruptcy proceedings for Air Lituanica, a defunct airline that is indirectly owned by the city of Vilnius. […]
Energy
Gas rebate model is not functioning in Lithuania
Energy experts say that the model applied to consumers by state enterprise Lietuvos Dujų Tiekimas for recovery of overpayments for gas, which accumulated from January 2013 through April 2014, is faulty. Energy experts arrived to the conclusion after calculating that Lietuvos Dujų Tiekimas, company engaged in gas import and sales, returned in January-July 2015 only EUR 2.5 million of the EUR 34 million of overpayments. […]
Defence
40 troops to work at NATO command unit in Vilnius
Around 40 troops will work at a NATO command unit that will soon be opened in Lithuania. Under the plan, representative of more than 10 NATO countries will work there, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said on 25 August. […]
Society
Baltic amber attracts world famous scientists to Lithuania
August 26-30 June 2015, Vilnius will bring together dozens of the world’s most prominent researchers in gemmology from almost 30 countries worldwide. In the IGC‘2015 international conference held in Vilnius University, the latest trends of identification and research technology of precious minerals as well as prevalence of fakes and falsification of gemstones will be discussed, tourism.lt reported. […]
Sports
I’ve come to see Lithuanian phenomenon – FIBA president in Vilnius
President Horacio Muratore, who is currently in Lithuania on his first visit, says he’s come to see himself the phenomenon of basketball success in Lithuania and will suggest this experience to other countries. […]
Economy
Grybauskaitė doubts milk producers can get aid from EU
President Dalia Grybauskaitė doubts that Lithuania will receive tens of millions of euros in aid from the European Commission for its milk producers hit by low milk prices and Russia’s ban on EU food imports. […]
Economy
Lithuania accommodated 4.8% more guests in Q2 2015 y-o-y
Based on provisional data, in the second quarter of 2015, accommodation establishments accommodated by 4.8 percent more guests than in the same quarter of 2014 and received 663.4 thousand tourists. The number of tourists from the EU countries totalled 229.7 thousand (by 5.9 percent more than in the same quarter of 2014), from non-EU countries – 148.6 thousand (by 6.1 percent less). The number of Lithuania’s residents accommodated grew by 10.6 percent and totalled 285.1 thousand, Statistics Lithuania said. […]
Economy
Government asks EC to provide EUR 50m to support dairy producers
Prior to the meeting in Brussels with European Commissioner Phil Hogan, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius and Agriculture Minister Virginija Baltraitienė have asked to provide EUR 50 million in support to Lithuania’s dairy producers. […]
Defence
NATO fighters scrambled twice last week in Baltic states
On 17-23 August NATO fighter jets conducting air policing tasks in the Baltic skies were scrambled twice to intercept aircraft in the international airspace above the Baltic states, the Ministry of National Defence of Lithuania reports. […]
Defence
Lithuania’s 1st recruits starting service in Klaipėda
The first 495 recruits are starting their mandatory initial military service at the Lithuanian Grand Duke Butigeidis Dragoon Battalion in Klaipėda on August 24 after the country reintroduced the nine-month service. […]
Uncategorized
Grybauskaitė congratulates Ukraine on Independence Day
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė has congratulated her Ukrainian counterpart, Petro Poroshenko, on his country’s Independence Day. […]
Society
LRT drops idea of exposing Kremlin’s propaganda
Lithuania’s national radio and television LRT will not feature a new broadcast dedicated to analysing the Kremlin propaganda. […]
Uncategorized
Baltic PMs discuss joint projects, security, migration
The informal meeting of the three Baltic prime ministers in the Lithuanian seaside resort of Palanga over the weekend focused on joint transport and energy projects, regional security, illegal migration and other issues. […]
Uncategorized
Linkevičius calls for changes in EU stance on Belarus after opposition figures freed
After Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko released six opposition leaders from prison, the European Union (EU) should revise its policies towards Minsk, Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius stated on 24 August. […]
European Union
Butkevičius sees Baltic Way 26th anniversary as path countries walked together
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius and his Latvian and Estonian counterparts marked the 26-year anniversary of the Baltic Way in Palanga on Saturday, recalling the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, by which Stalin’s Soviet Union and the Nazi Germany illegally divided Europe and put an end to independence of the three Baltic nations. […]
Politics
Mayor pledges to “take steps” to prevent Moscow House from opening in Vilnius
Vilnius City Mayor Remigijus Šimašius has pledged to take measures to prevent opening of the Moscow House in the Lithuanian capital as long as an analogous project in Moscow, the Vilnius House, is being stalled. […]
Same-sex couples gets married in British Embassy in Estonia
The first same-sex marriage was concluded in Tallinn between a British national and his Estonian partner. The two men were married on 14 August by British Consul Kathryn Lindsay, news.err.ee reports. […]
Economy
Economy