Defence
Month: August 2016
Foreign affairs
Ado about hunting party ‘will not affect ties with Latvia’ – Lithuanian Seimas speaker
The commotion about Lithuanian Agriculture Minister Virginija Baltraitienė‘s dinner and hunting party with her Latvian counterpart should not affect the relations between the two neighbouring states, says Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužinienė of the Labour Party. […]
Society
Lithuania’s most influential public figures
Historian Alfredas Bumblauskas tops the list of Lithuania’s most influential public figures, according to a poll by DELFI and the Reitingai magazine. […]
CORPORATE
SEB revises down Baltic growth projections after unimpressive H1
SEB Bank has revised down Lithuania’s GDP growth projections, estimating that the country’s economy will grow 2.2% this year and 2.5% in 2017. In its earlier projections, the bank expected Lithuania’s GDP to grow 2.8% […]
Politics
Defence minister faces interpellation over army utensils scandal
Lithuania’s opposition Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (conservatives) plan to launch interpellation procedure against Defence Minister Juozas Olekas, a social democrat, over suspected fraud in the army’s public procurement contracts. […]
Society
Vilnius hosts one of Europe’s biggest archaeology events
The European Association of Archeologists (EAA) is opening a congress in Vilnius on Wednesday, which is one of the biggest scientific events in Europe. […]
Foreign affairs
CORPORATE
Lithuanian companies produce parts for automobile industry giants
Some fifty Lithuanian businesses produce spare parts, components or even entire vehicles for global automobile industry giants. While the quantity supplied by Lithuanian companies is significantly smaller than, say, the Chinese, specialists highlight that Lithuanian […]
CORPORATE
Website helps track MPs’ voting record
With the general elections in a little over a month, an online resource can help voters make up their mind about which parties best represent their interest. Manoseimas.lt (“My Seimas” or “My parliament”) offers a […]
CORPORATE
Lithuanians’ salt intake ‘twice the norm’
Lithuanians consume much more salt than is the recommended norm, dietary specialists say. It is recommended to consume no more than 5 grams of salt a day. Specialists from the National Food and Veterinary Risk […]
Defence
France taking over NATO air policing mission in Lithuania
The Lithuanian Air Base in Šiauliai, northern Lithuania, is hosting an official NATO air police mission handover ceremony on Wednesday. […]
Economy
Moscow House construction in Vilnius stalling despite push from Russia
Moscow is looking for contractors to finish building Moscow House in Vilnius. The project, which started in 2008, but has stalled since then, has not been enthusiastically met by the administration of the Lithuanian capital city. […]
Politics
Lithuania’s chief of defence asked to explain costly purchase
The Lithuanian parliament’s Labour Party group is summoning Chief of Defence Jonas Vytautas Žukas on Wednesday over the costly public procurement for the Armed Forces. […]
Economy
Kaunas frozen food company Judex allowed to resume production
After repeated tests did not reveal any bacteria, the Lithuanian State Food and Veterinary Service (VMVT) on Tuesday allowed the Kaunas-based frozen food product company Judex, which is subject to a law-enforcement investigation, to resume production. […]
Uncategorized
An ode to linen led to Norwegian sheep
If you ask a Lithuanian what he or she is proud of, you will hear plenty of praises to dark bread, basketball, wonderful forests and hard-working people who still cherish ancient traditions and are able to create fashionable garments from linen. Nevertheless, few fellow-countrymen know that skilful weavers are on the verge of extinction, even though not so long ago, in the XIX–XX centuries, practically every woman in a village knew how to weave fabrics, and the most ingenious of weavers would come up with intricate patterns and successfully sold or bartered their creations for other goods. […]
Defence
Lithuanian army’s kitchen utensils a subject of criminal investigation
A purchase of kitchen utensils by the Lithuanian Army two years ago may end up a subject of criminal investigation after public procurement watchdogs found the state paid eight times the market price to a company that has won over 50 public contracts. […]
Politics
Social democrats urge to look into agriculture minister’s actions
Responsibility of Lithuania’s Agriculture Minister Virginija Baltraitienė should be assessed by the Labour Party that delegated her to the post, the board of the ruling Lithuanian Social Democratic Party stated on Tuesday. […]
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Greedy employers or bad laws: Why are Lithuanian wages lower than in Estonia?
Opinions are divided on why Lithuanians make relatively low wages, even compared to their northern neighbours in Estonia. As pointed out by the chief economist for Swedbank, Nerijus Mačiulis, there is a plethora of reasons […]
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Euro has been tough on second-hand clothing shops
This year has been tough on the second-hand clothing market. With rising prices, cut-throat competition and choosy customers, it has become a tough market, especially after Lithuania adopted the euro in 2015. Vaida Baliukonienė, the […]
Society
Syrian refugee disappointed in Lithuanian landlords
Radwan is a journalist from Syria who moved to Vilnius from a refugee centre a few weeks ago. While he has already successfully found employment at Western Union, many potential landlords shut their doors upon seeing Radwan, with even some Facebook groups dedicated to looking for housing removing him. […]