Lithuanian Finance Minister Rimantas Šadžius says that next year’s budget has been drafted to give a boost to the country’s slowing-down economy, noting planned increases in the minimum wage, in the non-taxable income tax threshold and in salaries for public sector employees will stimulate domestic consumption. […]
Jurgis Razma, a member of the opposition Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, has proposed abolishing secret voting in the Seimas of Lithuania, except for secret votes of non-confidence provided for by the Constitution. […]
The gap between revenue and expenditure of Lithuania’s State Social Insurance Fund, the Sodra, next year is expected to narrow by around 48 percent to 95.494 million euros, according to its draft 2016 budget. […]
US director Frank Barn is shooting a documentary film about the Hill of Witches on Lithuania’s picturesque Curonian Spit, with plans to present the movie at the international festival, The BEA Festival of Media Arts. […]
The Lithuanian Athletic Union of North America (ŠALFASS) and the US Lithuanian community both held their conventions on the same weekend, 25-27 September, in Cleveland, Ohio. […]
The level of VAT revenue collected in Lithuania is well below that which could be collected, the European Commission has said. […]
World Leaders Forum in Davos is one of the most prominent events where the leaders of the world meet. The only one youth representative from Lithuania – coordinator of Global Shapers network Andzelika Rusteikiene – has gained the opportunity to take a closer look at Forum. […]
Lithuania’s former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Petras Vaitiekūnas, has received the Community of Democracies’ Mark Palmer Prize, which is awarded to diplomats for their merits in advancing democracy and peace in the world, the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. […]
Lithuanians flooded the small Irish town of Ballinrobe, in the west of the country, on 25-27 September for the traditional event “We Still Need Wings”. The celebrations were meant to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the feat of a Lithuanian pilot who crossed the Atlantic in 1935. […]
It has been announced that the runway of Vilnius Airport will undergo reconstruction in the summer of 2017 – from 14 July to 18 August. Throughout this period, airplanes will not be landing in Vilnius, most airlines intend to reroute flights to Kaunas and Palanga during this time. The infrastructure needed to service the flow of passengers in other cities is being estimated at the moment. […]
Military equipment from Belgium and Luxembourg arrived in Lithuania’s port city of Klaipėda on Tuesday for use at the Baltic Piranha war games that will take place in Lithuania in October. […]
In her address to world leaders at the UN General Assembly, President Dalia Grybauskaitė underlined that the United Nations was not adapted to the challenges of today and needed immediate reform. […]
Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko, who is held in prison in Russia, has urged the international community to “strip” Russia of its veto right at the United Nations (UN) Security Council. […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s speech at the United Nations (UN) is “neo-Stalinist” and characteristic of celebration of last century’s dictatorships, says Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė. […]
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