Year: 2015

EU VP for the Digital Single Market, Andrus Ansip speaking in Washington, DC Photo Ludo Segers
European Union

EU’s Ansip takes the Digital Single Market to Washington

June 1, 2015 Ludo Segers 0

The EU’s Vice President in charge of the Digital Single Market, Andrus Ansip presented on Thursday his proposals to Washington’s influential Brookings Institute. During a press conference on Friday the pragmatic Mr. Ansip provided some more insights as to how the EU and its 28 membership states faces the complexities of a fast changing internet and how they plan reducing existing regulations and harmonize the EU into one single, large economic block. […]

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European Union

Analysts: EU aspirants ended up in limbo which cannot last forever

June 1, 2015 Linas Jegelevicius 0

Despite the frantic attempts by some of the EU leaders to give a rosy tint to the otherwise murky picture of the EU Eastern Partnership summit in Riga, political analysts from Lithuania, Estonia and Ukraine, approached by the Lithuania Tribune, unanimously agree the EU partners with membership aspirations have ended up in a limbo after the high-profile meeting. The uncertainty cannot last forever, the analysts agree, but their predictions for how it may unfold differ. […]

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Society

1 in 3 Lithuanians receive pensions

May 31, 2015 ELTA EN 0

In 2014 the number of recipients of old-age pensions paid by the State Social Insurance Fund (Sodra) decreased by a thousand to 599,600. By the end of 2014, as much as 923,200 people received at least one type of pension, i.e., one in three Lithuanians. […]

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Economy

Bank of Lithuania: Weight of export in GDP is increasing

May 31, 2015 ELTA EN 0

The importance of exports in services for Lithuanian trade has been growing in recent years, and with the growth of the need for analytical information on this sector, the Bank of Lithuania updated the published country’s balance of payments statistical data and from now on it will publish information in accordance with the countries that are Lithuania’s key partners in the service trade, the central bank said in a statement. […]

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Foreign affairs

Lithuanian General Consulate to open in Los Angeles

May 31, 2015 Ludo Segers 0

On 1 June, the Lithuanian Government is to open a Consulate General in Los Angeles, CA. During a ceremony that will take place in the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, the Lithuanian Foreign Minister, Linas Linkevicius, will officially open the third Lithuanian Consulate General in the USA. […]

From left Jadvyga Burokas, Ele Kains, David Suchet, Aida Abromas, Peter Kains, Janina Saffiotti
Global LT

An amazing encounter with David Suchet

May 31, 2015 Ele Kains 0

David Suchet is a famous English actor of Lithuanian descent who has starred in more than 100 TV films and movies. He is a Shakespearean actor of the stage but is best known for playing Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in the British TV drama, Agatha Christie’s ‘Poirot,’ which has been screening on TVs all around the world for 26 years. […]

Economy

Fewer banks project housing price increases in Lithuania

May 30, 2015 ELTA EN 0

The expectations of commercial banks about real estate prices have changed essentially over a year – there have remained almost no banks projecting housing price increases, while last spring such banks represented more than a half, said the Bank of Lithuania. […]

Politics

Lithuanian government approves liberalization of labour relations

May 29, 2015 BNS 0

The Lithuanian government on Friday approved in principle a draft social model, which is meant to liberalize labour relations and reorganize the system of social insurance. […]

President Dalia Grybauskaitė and Parliament Speaker Loreta Graužinienė
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President Grybauskaitė: Cooperation between Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine strengthens regional security

May 29, 2015 ELTA EN 0

President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with Marshal of the Polish Senate Bogdan Borusewicz, Chairman of Ukraine‘s Verkhovna Rada Volodymyr Groysman, and Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Loreta Graužinienė, who are participating in the sixth session of the Interparliamentary Assembly of Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine. The meeting focused on the security situation in the region, the situation in Ukraine, and enhanced interparliamentary cooperation between the three countries, said the presidential press service. […]

Economy

Business tendencies in Lithuania’s industrial sector worsen

May 29, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Statistics Lithuania has carried out a business tendency survey. The survey of directors of companies has revealed that a less optimistic industrial production forecast in May negatively affected industrial business tendencies. […]