Defence
State security agency to provide training for MPs
The Lithuanian State Security Department is planning to organize training for newly-elected members of the parliament. […]
Month: December 2016
European Union
President vows to seek post-Brexit guarantees for expatriates
Lithuania will seek all possible guarantees for Lithuanians living in the United Kingdom after that country leaves the European Union, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said ahead of her bilateral meeting with British Prime Minister Theresa May in Brussels on Thursday. […]
Economy
New board of Lithuanian Railways appointed
A new management board of the state railway company Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, or LG), which has lately come on the radar screen of law-enforcement, was appointed on Wednesday, the day when Rokas Masiulis took over the helm of the Transport Ministry. […]
Global LT
Dark Lullaby: Irene Angelico’s belated pilgrimage to Vilnius
Acclaimed Canadian filmmaker Irene Angelico confronts her doubts and visits Vilnius, the city where her parents lived during the Second World War. They knew it as Vilna. […]
CORPORATE
Inconvenient questions for Karbauskis
Yet to have time to warm up in power, the actions and aims of “Peasant” leader Ramūnas Karbauskis leave some surprised, some resentful, while others – even doubtful whether they voted for the right saviours […]
Politics
Sodra social insurance budget envisages raising pensions by EUR 20 from January
The average old-pension should go up by about 20 euros starting early 2017, which is 5 euros more than the increase planned earlier. The raise is envisaged in the revised 2017 budget draft of the Sodra state-run social insurer. The draft does not say anything about the plans of the Peasant and Green Union, which won the October general elections, to increase pensions by 40 euros from July. […]
Defence
Police conduct probe into cyber attacks
The Lithuanian Criminal Police Bureau is conducting pre-trial investigations into DDoS attacks, i.e., Distributed Denial of Service. […]
CORPORATE
Where Kubilius and Butkevičius failed, will Skvernelis succeed?
How well did the Conservative government of Andrius Kubilius and the Social Democrat Government of Algirdas Butkevičius actually fare? What problems did the first cabinets since independence to last the whole term face and what pledges did they fail to accomplish? […]
Politics
Search of Lithuanian Railways’ HQ part of year-long international probe
The Tuesday’s searches of the offices of the state railway company Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, or LG) are part of nearly a year-long international investigation, Financial Crime Investigation Service (FCIS) says. […]
Defence
Lithuania, US expect to sign deal on troops’ status before Trump’s inauguration
Lithuania and the United States expect to sign an agreement on the status of American troops before the January 20 inauguration of Donald Trump as US president. […]
Economy
Global LT
People cannot be divided into reliable, unreliable for citizenship – PM
In the discussion of the possibility for a part of Lithuanian citizens to have dual citizenship, citizens cannot be divided into reliable and unreliable, says Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis. […]
Politics
Lithuania’s 17th Government takes oath
After the parliament on Tuesday approved the government’s program, the country’s 17th Cabinet headed by Saulius Skvernelis took oath. […]
Politics
Politics
Dargužaitė to head new Lithuanian government’s office
Milda Dargužaitė, a former managing director of Invest Lithuania, the government’s foreign investment promotion agency, has been appointed chancellor of the new government of Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis. […]
Economy
PM expects improved social model to be passed by next July
Lithuanian Prime Minister-designate Saulius Skvernelis expects that the so-called new social model, a package of legislation on labour market and social insurance reforms, will be improved and passed by next July to give six months to businesses and private individuals to prepare for the planned changes. […]
Politics
Seimas approves new government’s programme
he Lithuanian parliament endorsed on Tuesday the programme of the new coalition government of the Peasant and Green Union and the Social Democratic Party. […]
CORPORATE
Political scientist – Lithuania could go the way of Poland
The Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union won the election on a platform of combatting social segregation and raising wages, but so far the actions of the new government betray more interest in identity questions, Alfa.lt […]
Freetime
Select the most beautiful Christmas tree of Lithuania
Christmas trees were lit in the largest towns of Lithuania already. If you would like to take a part in selecting the most beautiful Christmas tree of Lithuania visit this page. —————————————————————————————————— Haven’t thought of […]
European Union
New nationalism and the Baltic States
Leading world’s news channels, newspapers and political commentators ring the alarm of the re-emergence of chauvinistic nationalist politics at the thresholds of Western democracies. After the rather unexpected results of the US presidential election and the Britain’s referendum, many hold their breath waiting for the voting results of other EU member states and anxiously wondering how far nationalist sentiments can spread though-out Europe like a black death. […]