For centuries, the rule of thumb in trade was that land divides, water unites. It took years and gradually months to follow an overland trading route from Europe to China, as opposed to months and eventually weeks by boat. But speed-trains are changing the global logistics map. These speed train connections are the “hardware” of the overland Silk Path road project that connects Europe to China. […]
As many as 65 percent of Lithuanians, most of them younger people (aged 15-34 years), say they are already used to changes after the euro adoption, the latest survey for September has shown. However, compared to February’s survey, considerably more respondents believe that prices of goods and services have gone up after the introduction of the new currency. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė has proposed law amendments, requiring students to pass at least one national-level graduation exam in order to be accepted into a college or university. […]
Four Lithuanian universities – Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Klaipėda University, Šiauliai University and the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences in Vilnius – have agreed pool their resources and allow students to use facilities in either institution. […]
Former President of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus is celebrates his 89th birthday on Tuesday. […]
Professor Aistė Diržytė, head of the Psychological Well-Being Research Laboratory, was somewhat surprised by her own research results on corruption. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė expects to appoint a new prosecutor general by the end of this year, the president’s spokeswoman Daiva Ulbinaitė said after a meeting with the Board of the Seimas (parliament). […]
This year, Lithuania has been listed among three countries in the region that are most favourable to business in terms of the simplicity of procedures for issuing documents that permit construction. […]
Lithuanian prosecutors have started investigating potential damage done to the state by a business company owned by the family of Gabrielius Landsbergis, leader of the Homeland Union- Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD). […]
Should Lithuania be worried about Estonia‘s plans to build its own liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal? If it becomes a regional gas supply facility, it could supply gas to Latvia and Estonia and take away desperately needed clients from Lithuania’s Klaipėda LNG terminal, already struggling to operate at adequate capacity. […]
Conservative MP Dainius Kreivys has registered amendments to the Law on Elections to the Seimas, proposing to abandon the party-list voting system and elect MPs only in single-member constituencies starting from 2020. […]
The Nasdaq stock exchange announced on Monday about reorganization of AB LESTO, Lithuania’s electricity distribution network operator, and Lietuvos Dujos (Lithuanian Gas). […]
The Tripartite Council – consisting of representatives of the Government, employers and employees – has reached an agreement that the minimum monthly wage would be raised to EUR 350 on 1 January 2016. […]
Two thirds of Lithuanians trust insurance companies and the same number of people is suspicious of instant credit companies. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė is to meet representatives of the academic community, employers and students to discuss how to increase the quality of higher education. […]
Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius on Saturday expressed his condolences over the Russian plane crash in Egypt that claimed lives of over 200 people, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. […]
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