Romanian President Klaus Iohannis has criticized the European Commission’s (EC) proposal to penalize countries that refuse to take in migrants. Sanctions do not help solve anything, Iohannis said on Wednesday in Vilnius. […]
Lidl, which is due to open a raft of stores across Lithuania in the coming months, has signed up a number of major Lithuanian food companies to supply its outlets, indicating it may open as early as the beginning of June. […]
The referendum on dual citizenship will probably have to be moved to a later date, most likely to coincide with the Lithuanian presidential elections in 2019, says Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužinienė. Lithuanian expatriate communities have criticized plans to hold the referendum this October. […]
With shrinking labour force universally acknowledged as the biggest impediment to Lithuania’s long-term economic growth prospects, increasingly many migrants are coming to the country to fill job vacancies. […]
Abdul Basir Yoususi, an Afghan national who once worked as interpreter for Lithuanian troops in Afghanistan‘s Ghor Province and was relocated to the Baltic state a month ago, has been granted refugee status. […]
A no confidence vote against the European Commission is an attempt to steal some limelight by far-right groups in the European Parliament, says Lithuanian EU Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis. […]
The Baltic States are considering creating a single gas market that would facilitate gas trading among the three countries and may include Finland. […]
Lithuania‘s exports grew by an annual rate of 1% to €5.2 billion in the first quarter of 2016. Lithuania was the only Baltic country to post an increase in exports in the first quarter of […]
Lithuania’s government will decide what Lithuania’s military should look like in 6 years under new plans for defence spending. Military planning guidelines indicate that 4,000 mandatory basic service soldiers will complete their mandatory conscription every […]
While Germany now has plans to legalise medical marijuana to help people with serious illnesses, and it has already been decriminalised in Baltic neighbour Estonia, Lithuanian politicians are in no rush to make such a […]
The latest edition of Eurovision Song Contest last week was one of the most popular TV events in Lithuania, with 1.3 million people tuning in to watch at least one of the three concerts. […]
Small businesses in Lithuania say they lack the funds they need to expand, but banks seem unwilling to risk their depositors’ money on loans. Small business leaders hope that they will be able to tap […]
Lithuania’s parliament has adopted amendments to the Law on Alcohol Control which will prohibit advertising alcoholic beverage price reductions. […]
Former Liberal Movement Party Chairman Eligijus Masiulis could have his parliamentary mandate revoked by Friday by the decision of the Central Electoral Commission and lose legal immunity. The politician is then likely to face arrest. […]
The ceremony of opening the United States’ missile defense base in Deveselu, Romania, last week (Thursday, May 12), was greeted by a barrage of condemnation and criticism from Russian officials. The next day, President Vladimir Putin turned these denouncements into state policy by defining this deployment of a radar station and SM-3 missile interceptors as a direct threat to Russia and promising to “curtail” it. […]
Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats leader Gabrielius Landsbergis is in no hurry to promise MEP Antanas Guoga, who is leaving the Liberal Movement, a place in his party. Landsbergis said cooler heads were needed […]
Four supermarket chains currently control almost half of the retail market in Lithuania. It took them about a decade from the mid-1990s to push out small businesses and acquire a power that politicians and economists say is unhealthy for genuine competition. […]
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