CEO of Lietuvos Energija (Lithuanian Energy), Lithuania’s state-owned energy holding, says the company intends to take part in Gazprom’s natural gas auction for the Baltic countries this week, but the auction price will have to be comparable to those in Europe and lower than the one offered by Gazprom to companies early this year. […]
Sweden’s banking group SEB is considering to introduce negative interest rates on deposits held by large business clients in the Baltic States, vz.lt reports. […]
Deutsche Post-owned DHL is to develop a new parcel delivery service and network across Lithuania, the Baltic States and Scandinavia in cooperation with Finnish postal operator Posti and Bring, a subsidiary of Posten Norge, the Norwegian postal operator. […]
Mandatory initial military service should be reintroduced in Lithuania for good rather than for five years, the State Defence Council decided on Monday. […]
To celebrate the Day of the Restoration of Independence on March 11, Vilnius changed the arrangement of traffic lights from the usual red-yellow-green to yellow-green-red, the colours of Lithuania’s national flag. […]
About 1,000 people took part in a controversial rally organized by the Union of National Youth in central Vilnius, chanting slogans “Lithuania for Lithuanians”. The event was held on March 11, when Lithuania celebrated the 26th anniversary of independence from the Soviet Union. […]
Lithuania has picked singer Donny Montell to represent the country at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm with his song, “I‘ve Been Waiting For This Night”. […]
Lithuanian immigrants in the UK are rushing to get residency cards as the referendum on British withdrawal from the European Union approaches. […]
Senior representatives of China‘s industrial giant, China Merchants Group, will visit Lithuania again this week to meet with representatives of Lithuanian Railways and the Klaipėda Seaport Authority to explore opportunities in the country. […]
Lithuania cannot afford to waste another four years ignoring the many structural problems the country faces, according to the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats leader Gabrielius Landsbergis. […]
The Lithuanian army is planning to expand its training grounds in Pabradė and Gaižiūnai by cutting down some of the surrounding forests. […]
The Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (EAPL), a political party representing Lithuania’s Polish minority, has suggested implementing new taxes on bank assets and major retail chains’ turnover based on similar moves in Poland. […]
While Lithuanian political parties tend to base their political campaigns on short term populist objectives, they mostly come up short when delivering on those pledges, an analysis by political scientists has shown. […]
An international transparency NGO is calling for more information on lobbying, links to business and party financing to be made public in Lithuania. […]
Environment Minister Kęstutis Trečiokas, who has been at the centre of a controversy over construction in Druskininkai and the resulting stand-off between Lithuania’s president and prime minister, is meeting his party’s leadership on Monday to discuss his future in the post. […]
As part of the European Union‘s attempt to help solve the migrant and refugee crisis, Lithuania plans to provide Turkey, which has pledged to accept illegal immigrants traveling to Greece, with €5.2 million. […]
The State Defence Council, summoned by President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Monday, is to decide whether Lithuania should keep military conscription indefinitely. […]
After the European Union cut off migrant routes via Libya to Italy and agreed with Turkey to stem migrant flows across the Aegean to Greece, the Baltic States fear that migrants from the Middle East might discover new routes via Russia, making them their gateway to the European Union. […]
A new museum at the President’s Palace will introduce visitors to the functioning of the Lithuanian state. […]
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