Statistics Lithuania reports that, according to the Labour Force Survey data, in 2014 the unemployment rate stood at 10.7 percent; against 2013, it decreased by 1.1 percentage points. […]
The temperature was crisp this morning for the first run inspection of the men’s giant slalom at the 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Beaver Creek, Colorado, but clear skies and quickly climbing temperatures promised to make for a fantastic day of ski racing. […]
Troops from nine NATO countries took part in the main planning conference of the Saber Strike 2015 multinational exercises at the General Adolfas Ramanauskas Warfare Training Centre in Nemenčine on February 10-13. […]
US leader have congratulated Lithuania on the occasion of the upcoming Day of Restoration of the State of Lithuania on February 16. United States President Barack Obama congratulated Lithuania via Secretary of State John Kerry. […]
A Lithuanian-run heating company in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk came under fire on Friday night. Artemovsk Energiya, part of the Lithuanian E Energija group, provides heating for Artemovsk. It sustained minor damage during the incident. […]
With the purpose of expanding and diversifying export markets Lithuania’s industrialist are planning seven business mission for 2015, among them – Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius‘ led visit to Australia. […]
The number of passengers at Lithuanian airports increased by 16.5 percent during the first month of this year, compared to the same calendar period last year, the state enterprise Lithuanian Airports reports. […]
Lithuania’s natural gas supply and trading company Litgas plans to enter a new field of activity – small-scale liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply and bunkering. Currently, Litgas together with Statoil are analysing cooperation opportunities and plan to agree on the form of cooperation within the second quarter this year, the company said. […]
On Friday, the European Commission officially confirmed the Lithuanian Rural Development Programme. […]
In January the prices of consumer goods and services declined by 1.5% in annual terms and by 1.3% in monthly terms. This was the biggest annual deflation since 2003. Average annual inflation was at 0%. […]
Rasa Juknevičienė and Arvydas Anušauskas, conservative members of parliament, have addressed Chairman of the Seimas Committee on National Security and Defence Artūras Paulauskas asking to include in the agenda of the nearest meeting the issue of privatisation of arms factory Giraitės Ginkluotės Gamykla. […]
The number of marriages registered in Lithuania in 2014 went up by 1,500 from the year before, with more couples deciding to wed outside civil registry offices, shows statistics published by the Justice Ministry on the eve of Valentine’s Day. […]
Organisations representing Lithuanian farmers have addressed President Dalia Grybauskaitė in a letter asking to take “urgent and decisive” actions to “save” Lithuania’s dairy sector. […]
Lithuania’s statistics office says that euro adoption could have been among the reasons behind a rise in service prices at the start of this year, but adds that the changeover had no impact on prices of goods. […]
Lithuania’s Justice Ministry has proposed that the government should consider amendments to several laws that would ensure confidentiality for persons reporting corruption in the law-enforcement system and public service. […]
Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuania’s first post-Soviet leader and honorary chairman of the conservative Homeland Union, says that the Minks agreement for ceasefire between Kiev’s forces and Moscow-supported separatist fighters in eastern Ukraine, which was signed on Thursday, is worse than the Munich agreement of 1938. […]
There are 69 countries represented here in Vail-Beaver Creek, Colorado, for the FIS World Alpine Ski Championships. Some of them are well-known in the ski racing world, and attend these and other big ski racing events with an entourage of coaches, doctors, trainers, ski technicians, and even personal assistants. But the majority of the field is made up of up-and-coming racers doing it mostly on their own, and many of them are from small nations like Lithuania, Latvia, Georgia, Israel, Brazil (at least in the ski racing world), and even Haiti and Mexico, countries that don’t even have snow. […]
On 12 February, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius received Israel‘s new Ambassador to Lithuania Amir Maimon. Minister stressed that the opening of the Israeli Embassy in Vilnius would further strengthen the partnership between Lithuania and Israel and people-to-people contacts, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who took part in an informal meeting of the European Council on Thursday, says that all member-states of the eurozone must carry out a responsible fiscal and economic policy and Greece is no exception. […]
The Minsk talks, which ended on Thursday in an agreement on ceasefire in eastern Ukraine, have proven that the “war button is pushed” in Moscow, says a lecturer at Vilnius University’s International Relations and Political Science Institute Vytis Jurkonis. He emphasized the importance of putting the agreements into practise, as earlier cases have shown that Russia is less than a trustworthy partner. […]
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