The Ambassador of Lithuania to the Council of Europe, Laima Jurevičienė, and the Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Gabriella Battaini-Dragoni, have signed the Council of Europe’s Convention on Laundering, Search, Seizure and Confiscation of the Proceeds from Crime and on the Financing of Terrorism. […]
Lithuanians would like to develop their own businesses, but many are afraid or simply do not have an idea for one, SEB Bank has concluded after carrying out a survey in the Baltic states. About one in ten Lithuanians have a business, whereas in Latvia and Estonia the share is twice as big. Many say they do not know enough about how to start a business. […]
Eurochannel and Lithuanian film centre presents “Lithuanian Month” in November. Eurochannel, the award-winning television channel, presents its first Lithuanian Month supported by the Lithuanian Film Centre. During the entire month of November, Eurochannel viewers will enjoy a curated selection of Lithuanian feature films, documentaries, shorts, and musical artists to showcase Lithuania’s dynamic cinematic culture. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė has signed amendments to the Law on Elections to Municipal Councils which she herself initiated and which were adopted by parliament. The amendments are aimed at ensuring greater election transparency. […]
Lithuania’s Economy Minister Evaldas Gustas has promised to initiate new reforms next year to improve the country’s business environment and help Lithuania move up on the Doing Business rating. […]
For the first time in the history of Lithuanian sports, a ski race sanctioned by the International Ski Federation (FIS) will be hosted by Druskininkai Snow Arena. Two Olympians will represent Lithuania. […]
Vilnius’ marketplaces are beloved by both visitors and locals alike as a source of quality organic food products with prices that can often be haggled over with the farmers that grew them. Interest in organic and farm fresh products is growing fast but so too is competition for the attention of consumers, making the future of the small businesses and individual farmers that fill Vilnius’ farmers’ markets anything but certain. […]
MP Kęstutis Masiulis of the conservative Homeland Union has proposed to establish a separate electoral constituency for Lithuanian citizens who live abroad. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė is going to Vatican to visit Pope Francis on Wednesday. […]
The congress of the European People‘s Party in Madrid has turned into a meeting of conservative leaders to discuss the refugee crisis, a divisive issue for European conservatives. Gabrielius Landsbergis, the leader of the Lithuanian Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, says that his party supports Angela Merkel‘s idea of solidarity, but also questions the sustainability of proposed solutions. […]
Lithuania and Moldova have signed an economic cooperation memorandum in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė will consult the board of parliament about the candidate for prosecutor general once again next week. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has met with representatives of the Lithuanian community of Iceland on the eve of the meeting of the Nordic-Baltic (NB8) prime ministers in Reykjavik. […]
In the Doing Business 2016 report by the World Bank, Lithuania moved one positions up compared to the previous year and came 20th among 189 economies in the world, while among member-states of the European Union it was 8th this year. […]
Lithuanian commercial banks are revising their expectations of real estate prices. A year ago, banks hoped that housing, particularly new developments, will see a rise in prices, while in a survey performed this autumn there wasn’t a single bank expecting a rise in housing prices, the Bank of Lithuania said. […]
On 27 October, Tuesday, President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with Director General of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) Professor Rolf-Dieter Heuer and President of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences Professor Valdemaras Razumas. The meeting discussed the contribution of Lithuanian scientists to the most significant discoveries and experiments in the world as well as further cooperation between Lithuanian scientists and CERN. […]
On 19-25 October, fighter jets conducting the NATO Air Policing Mission in the Baltic states performed four scrambles to intercept aircraft flying in international airspace above the Baltic Sea, the Ministry of National Defence of Lithuania said. […]
On this day last year, the floating LNG regasification and storage unit Independence sailed into the port of Klaipėda. The LNG terminal is a crucial element in Lithuania’s striving for energy independence from Russian gas and electricity imports, but arguments continue about who is going to pay for the facility’s maintenance. […]
In 2014, Lithuania’s resource productivity accounted for only 0.65 EUR/kg, down by 1.1 percent since 2012. The country’s domestic material consumption stood at 50.4 million tons, up by 59.8 percent from 2012, Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union (EU), reports. […]
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius left for a working visit to Iceland to participate in a meeting of the prime ministers of the Nordic and Baltic countries (NB8) in Reykjavik on Wednesday, the prime minister’s press service said. […]
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