Economy

Lithuania still needs progress in waste management

Although Lithuania has made significant progress in waste management over the last years, it is still behind many other EU countries. […]

US President Barack Obama. Photo Ludo Segers
Foreign affairs

Obama on independence day: ‘Lithuania continues to serve as a model to others’

US President Barack Obama has praised Lithuania‘s contribution to supporting Eastern Partnership countries and Ukraine, saying that Lithuania “continues to serve as a model” for strengthening democracy and security in the world. […]

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Energy

New LNG shipment from Statoil coming to Klaipėda

A new shipment of Statoil’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) will be delivered to the Lithuanian LNG facility in Klaipėda this week. […]

Monika Garbačiauskaitė-Budrienė
Opinion

Opinion:Political Correctness – a road to hell paved with good intentions

A year ago, when Islamist radicals shot and killed eight members of Charlie Hebdo’s editorial office, Europe bravely stood up for freedom of speech and declared it would not be intimidated. A free press is exactly what separates us from undemocratic regimes, and we will fight for it. When those attacks happened, we couldn’t have dreamed in our worst nightmares that Europe itself would soon voluntarily give up freedom of speech, embracing a new era of political correctness where democratic states like Germany or Sweden would be reluctant to share the real truth. […]

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CORPORATE

Klaipėda University sailboat takes on 5,000 mile journey

Klaipėda University‘s training sailboat Brabander is preparing for its longest journey yet – a 5,000-mile-long odyssey along the coast of Norway, a brief pause in the Shetland and the Faroe Islands, and then around Iceland. […]