Baltic basketball fans who have been comparing and contrasting the NBA careers of Jonas Valančiūnas from Lithuania and Kristaps Porzingis from Latvia were treated with an exciting game on Monday when Valančiūnas’ Raptors and Porzingis’ Knicks met face-to-face once again, this time in New York. […]
United States President Barack Obama told Russian leader Vladimir Putin, with whom he spoke on the phone on Monday, that Moscow must respect the Minsk agreements of ceasefire in eastern Ukraine, the White House said. […]
As teachers across Lithuania continue a strike, demanding higher wages, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius claims trade unions behind the strike are “influenced by Russia“. […]
The Board of the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania decided on Monday to nominate Juras Požela, 33, for the position of healthcare minister, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius, Social Democratic leader, told journalists after the meeting. […]
A radical transformation of the education system in Lithuania is needed to narrow the wage gap between Lithuania and other European countries, according to Rokas Grajauskas, chief economist for the Baltic countries at Danske Bank, writing in Lietuvos Žinios. […]
A medical team at Santariškės Hospital for the first time identified and operated on a very rare tumour which was found in a 25 year-old patient. There have been only a few such cases in the world. […]
Relations between Lithuania and Poland have been chilly for some time now and experts say that the delay in works on the 200km Rail Baltica stretch between Warsaw and Šeštokai are a reflection of that state of affairs. […]
IT specialists will continue to be the most sought-after employees in Lithuania to 2020 and beyond as skills shortages continue in the key sector. […]
The Social Democratic Party group on Vilnius Municipality Board have put forward a proposal to collect a pillow tax – a €1 charge for hotel accommodation – which would begin to take effect from 2017. […]
The ministers of environment and agriculture will have to go if they are caught lying about investigations they are currently subject to, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has suggested on Monday evening after meeting with the president. […]
On Tuesday, the Social Democratic party will hold a political council meeting to ascertain whether the Labour Party supports the Government’s decisions regarding teachers’ wages and the social model being considered by the Seimas (parliament). […]
Employers have no right to include non-compete clauses into employment contracts without additional compensation as that would limit a person’s constitutional right to freely choose occupation, Lithuania’s Supreme Court has ruled. […]
The European Union’s (EU) researchers will draw up proposals by summer identifying the best ways to synchronize electricity grids of the Baltic countries and Western Europe, Maroš Šefčovič, the European Commission’s Vice-President for the Energy Union, has said while on a visit to Lithuania. […]
The BBC’s documentary about a hypothetical invasion of the Baltic States by Russia has sparked a protest in Latvia, with about 80 people staging a rally against the airing of the programme they said demonized the country’s Russian-speaking population and was pro-war “propaganda” paid for by the United States. […]
Russian president Vladimir Putin congratulated Estonian president Toomas Hendrik Ilves on Estonia’s day of independence. […]
A collapse of Schengen zone could cost the European Union’s economy as much as €1.4 trillion over the next decade, according to a new study. […]
The safety of the Astravyets nuclear power plant that Belarus is building near the border with Lithuania should be a matter of concern for the entire European Union, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has said, calling on the EU to seriously consider restricting the import of electricity generated by that facility to the EU market. […]
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