Ramūnas Karbauskis end Eglė Samoškaitė
CORPORATE

ELECTIONS. Karbauskis speaks on the new Labour Code

Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union (LVŽS) leader Ramūnas Karbauskis is convinced that the new Labour Code that the current Seimas passed recently is in dire need of amending, while employers should consider what sort of […]

Seimas elections 2016
CORPORATE

Reflecting on pre-ELECTION polling

The Conservatives and “Peasants” obtained better election results than predicted by polls through voter loyalty, low turnout among the Social Democrat electorate and the various scandals surrounding the incumbent coalition government believe sociologists. Polls by […]

Ramūnas Karbauskis and Saulius Skvernelis
CORPORATE

ELECTIONS. Three key ‘Peasants’ economics proposals. Analysis

One of the winners of the Seimas elections, the Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union (LVŽS) stresses its support of a social market economy. Their programme contains a number of proposals that can be seen as […]

Harvest time in Lithuania
Economy

Exporters look for markets to sell poorer quality grai

Lithuanian companies, which exported mostly food-grade wheat to Middle East and Northern Africa in recent years, will have to find markets much closer to home to sell this year’s poorer-quality crop, the business daily Verslo Žinios reported on Tuesday. […]

Gabrielius Landsbergis
Politics

Conservatives pull ahead of Peasant & Green Union in Seimas elections

The conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats have a narrow lead over the Peasant and Green Union in the first round of the parliamentary elections, according to the latest preliminary results published by the Central Electoral Commission. […]