This week, the Seimas Committee on Social Affairs and Labour deliberated on changes to the Labour Code and approved the majority of new types of labour contracts that were proposed. The committee also approved a new maximum overtime amount of 180 hours per year and ensured that these would be paid for as well. […]
Deeper, a wireless fish-finding sonar device designed by a team of Lithuanian engineers, just won the award for best innovation in the wireless handset category at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), one of the biggest industry exhibitions in the U.S. It is the first time that a fishing device has won a major award at CES. […]
Though a wave of discontent spread though the ruling coalition when Minister of Finance Rimantas Šadžius was appointed to be Lithuania’s representative to the EU’s Court of Auditors, it seems like those waves are subsiding. […]
Lithuania expects to conclude its deal with Artec over acquiring infantry fighting vehicles (IFV) Boxer in July, the country’s army chief Lieutenant General Jonas Vytautas Žukas said. Before that, the army needs to finish talks with the Organisation for Joint Armament Cooperation (OCCAR) which will negotiate the deal with Artec on Lithuania’s behalf. […]
Several dozen energy specialists and politicians have criticised the Lithuanian government’s decision to discontinue electricity production subsidies for combined heat and power plants in Vilnius, Kaunas and Panevėžys. They said that the decision will increase consumers’ electricity and heating bills, while the country will not have sufficient backup electricity generation power. […]
On Monday, the latest list of Lithuanian men selected for the draft will be published. Though the list will include 3,000 men, 600 have already volunteered to fill those positions. Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas expressed his hope that, in 2016, the Lithuanian military’s draft requirements will once again be met by volunteers. […]
While the global fall in stock markets is affecting the performance of the Lithuanian and Baltic stock markets, the macro-economic performance of Lithuania and the Baltic states will have more of an influence on whether stocks rise or fall in the near future. […]
Lithuanian Foreign Affairs Minister Linas Linkevičius said the appointment of Chief of Vilnius district Police Headquarters, Kęstutis Lančinskas as the new head of the European Union advisory mission in Ukraine was an honour for the country. […]
Four Polish nationals were convicted of exhibiting a poster offensive to Lithuanians at a football match. The banner with the words Lithuanian cad, kneel before the Polish lord was displayed in a football match between local team Lech and Žalgiris in 2013. […]
The best approach to maintaining an army for a country the size of Lithuania is a mixed conscript and professional army, according to Lithuanian President, Dalia Grybauskaitė. […]
Four Lithuanians have been ranked among the highest earning professionals in the institutions of the European Union. […]
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said there would be no negotiation with his coalition partners of a replacement for Social Democrat Finance Minister Rimantas Šadžius, who has been proposed as a candidate for the membership at the European Court of Auditors. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė annual press conference appeared more like a speech from an administrator rather than a politician, with a focus on administrative issues like control, inspection and better enforcement, Vilnius University professor Romas Lazutka told LRT Radijas. […]
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius hopes that the Lithuanian Parliament will adopt the new social model, a package of Labour Code and welfare system reforms, in its spring session which commences in March. […]
Ludo Segers talks to the Dutch ambassador about taking over the presidency of the European council, on why David Cameron’s speech on getting a new deal for Britain with the EU was not anti-European, on how the Netherlands security interests are intrinsically intertwined with those of Lithuania and the Baltic States, and on how a new statue to be unveiled in Kaunas will commemorate an unsung Dutch hero of the Holocaust. […]
The Consulate of Lithuania and the Lithuanian community in St. Petersburg are already preparing to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Lithuanian state, in 2018. […]
Many immigrants to Lithuania are happy with their lives here and are not planning to move back to their homelands. A number of immigrants shared their stories on LRT programme Ryto garsai (morning sounds). […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė is critical about the so-called social model, an ambitious Labour Code reform undertaken by the current government. The package of laws was drafted and submitted to parliament last year, but has yet to be adopted. […]
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