Statistics Lithuania in its annual publication Structural Business Statistics Indicators 2013 reports that back in 2013, there were about 183,000 active enterprises in the country, which employed about 935,000 people. Over the year, the number of enterprises increased by 9.2 percent, the number of persons employed in them – by 4.3 percent. […]
Over the last year, the proportion of foreign-controlled enterprises in Lithuania increased by 7 percent. […]
Swedbank has granted more than EUR 11 million in loans to poultry farmers and producers – leading Latvian poultry producer AS Putnu Fabrika Kekava has been assigned EUR 9.48 million, whereas the associated company SIA Lielzeltini – EUR 1.91 million euros. The loan will be used to carry out renovations of bird enclosures and infrastructure, modernize the meat processing plant and purchase the new equipment, Linas Agro Group reports. […]
In June 2015, Lithuania’s seasonally adjusted unemployment stood at 8.5 percent, slightly up from May with 8.2 percent but down from 10.9 percent compared to June 2014. This June, there were around 127,000 job-seekers in Lithuania, Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union (EU), reports. […]
When it comes to cross-border healthcare, for countries like Lithuania the vision was to offer Western countries shorter waiting times and significant reductions in treatment costs. […]
A delegation of the Chinese Ministry of Commerce has visited the Lithuanian Ministry of Economy. […]
Participants of the annual initiative Mission Siberia 2015 returned to Vilnius on Saturday after spending two weeks in Russia. […]
On 30 July, the State Plant Service under the Ministry of Agriculture of Lithuania received a note from the Russian food safety supervising authority Rosselkhoznadzor where Russia asks the Plant Service to temporarily suspend phytosanitary certification of flowers grown in the Netherlands because harmful organisms were allegedly found in flowers brought from Lithuania. […]
Kremlin does not rule out Moscow’s asymmetrical response to US new sanctions against a number of against a number of Russian physical and legal persons, the Russian president’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday. […]
Rescuers have brought the body of a Lithuanian climber who was killed during a stone fall in the Tian Shan Mountains in Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Friday. […]
The Kremlin could exert influence on Lithuania and try to destabilize the country if Russia’s chemical concern EuroChem Group were to acquire Achemos Grupė (Achema Group), one of Lithuania’s largest concerns, that owns a large fertilizer plant in Jonava and the largest stevedoring company in the port of Klaipeda, a political scientist has said. […]
The Lithuanians have warmed further towards the euro after the country’s switchover to the single currency early this year, the recent Eurobarometer survey has shown. […]
Situation on board of four ships of Lietuvos Jūrų Laivininkystė (Lithuanian Shipping Company, or LJL) stuck in foreign ports is getting increasingly worse. […]
After Russia this week vetoed the proposal to establish a tribunal on the civilian airliner MH17 tragedy in Eastern Ukraine, Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė says Russia has something to hide. […]
One hundred young startup founders will come to Lithuania on October 1st-4th to take part in youth Davos which is also referred to as Shape Europe event. It is the annual meeting of World Economic Forum Global Shapers community that brings together its members from all over the world to discuss and proactively impact the global agenda. […]
After talks emerged about the Russian chemical company EuroChem Group entertaining plans to invest in Lithuania’s Achema Group, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said that any investor would have to go through scrutiny and meet strict national security criteria. Achema Group is the owner of fertilizer manufacturer Achema, one of the biggest companies in the country which is included in the list of enterprises with relevance to Lithuania’s national security. […]
Ukraine’s Economy Minister Aivaras Abromavičius, who is Lithuanian, is visiting Vilnius on Friday. […]
The decision made by the United States Department of Treasury to step up sanctions for Russia “is a proper and consistent assessment of Russia’s policies towards Ukraine“, which can also help resume the debate in the European Union on sanctions for Russia, says Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė. […]
Liberal Remigijus Šimašius, who has been serving as the mayor of Vilnius for 100 days, says that he managed to reduce the city’s debt by 2.4 percent or EUR 8.6 million in the period from late April to early July. […]
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