US President Barack Obama has announced that the US will extend its sanctions against Russia for another year. The sanctions were initially implemented in March of 2014 response to the annexation of Crimea and the destabilisation of Ukraine. […]
European Council President Donald Tusk has said economic migrants will not be welcome in Europe, making an appeal not to come and warning they will they will be turned away. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that released transcripts of conversations between Environment Minister Kęstutis Trečiokas and Druskininkai mayor cast doubts on his suitability for the post. Trečiokas has responded that he will not step down, while the opposition wants an interpellation for the minister. […]
About a third of all taxi drivers in Vilnius are working illegally, according to an investigation by the city’s municipality. Although drivers mark their cars as taxis, many do not meet official requirements. […]
Lithuanian investors plan to direct large parts of their investment portfolio into gold – as much as 40% on average with huge volatility still afflicting world stock markets. […]
23 registered Lithuanian political parties have submitted their member lists to the Ministry of Justice by 1 March and will be able to participate in the Seimas elections coming up in October. […]
Baltic passports are among the most valuable in the world, according to a list that valued passports by how many states they granted visa-free access to. […]
US presidential election results may bring unexpected changes to Lithuania, Žygimantas Pavilionis, the former Lithuanian Ambassador to the US, told Žinių radijas. […]
Lithuania’s state-owned energy holding Lietuvos Energija is planning to take part in a natural gas auction recently announced by Russia’s Gazprom, if the price is right. […]
The teachers’ trade unions involved in the nearly two-week-long strike for higher wages in Lithuania have announced that they are prepared to call off their strike as early as Friday. Audrius Jurgelevičius, the leader of the Lithuanian Education Trade Union, told LRT that he believes that the trade unions have achieved 75 percent of their goals after the government managed to find an additional €8 million to increase educational staff’s wages. […]
Profit margins of major banks in Lithuania have fallen by about one fifth in 2015, a result of one-off factors like Lithuania’s accession to the euro zone and quantitative easing policies that have cut interest rates, Verslo Žinios reports. […]
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius claims that the teachers’ trade unions on strike in Lithuania could have been influenced or inspired by Russia has attracted considerable attention. When describing how some members of the teachers’ trade unions attended certain conferences in Russia, the prime minister rhetorically asked, “Who can deny that, after that, some of their suggestions and desires are implemented here in Lithuania?” […]
Most observers reckon that, after the Seimas elections, the nucleus of the ruling coalition will be made up of Social Democrats and Liberals, with Ramūnas Karbauskas’s Peasant and Green party and other independent parties contributing to the coalition as well. […]
Promwad, a leading pioneer of technologies for the ‘internet of things’ is to start a collaboration with Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU) as well as opening a new services centre in Vilnius. […]
Lithuanian Minister of Energy Rokas Masiulis has signed a memorandum of cooperation with the Japanese Economy, Trade and Industry Minister of State Yosuke Takagi on using nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. […]
Concepts of military strategy and doctrine have long influenced the political and military geography of the Baltic region. […]
A meeting of Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius and Minister of Education Audronė Pitrėnienė on Wednesday morning did not produce an agreement to set aside additional €7 million for teachers‘ salaries. Instead, the government has pledged to find €2 million to meet striking teachers’ demands. […]
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