Freetime
What’s on in Lithuania this weekend
Looking for something to do in Lithuania this weekend? Here’s what’s on in Lithuania’s major cities: […]
Year: 2016
Opinion
Economy
Lithuania’s Seimas revokes milk price regulation
The Lithuanian parliament, Seimas, Friday struck down a controversial piece of legislation adopted a week ago to regulate milk prices. […]
Society
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One thing that many people do not know about the Lithuania Tribune is that we are a non-profit organisation (viešoji įstaiga – VšĮ). This means that any money we make goes into maintaining and expanding our English-language news coverage. […]
Society
‘Mongolia and Lithuania are both small, brave and proud nations’ – Honorary Consul
In a series about those remarkable individuals who promote Lithuania’s image abroad and build the country’s brand around the world, Sanjsuren Boldbaatar, Lithuania’s Honorary Consul in Mongolia, talks about his work for Lithuania. […]
Freetime
Baltic states to use their mutual indistinguishability to their advantage
Lithuania‘s, Latvia‘s and Estonia‘s tourism bodies signed an agreement on Friday to swap their marketing trademarks in order to underline friendship among the three Baltic nations. As of May, Lithuania will use the adapted Estonian logo, Estonia will promote itself with Latvia’s former logo and Latvia will use the logo that used to represent Lithuania. […]
Politics
MP Povilas Gylys proposed for minister of the interior
The Lithuanian prime minister is meeting with MP Povilas Gylys who has been proposed for the post of minister of the interior on Friday. […]
CORPORATE
Uncategorized
Lithuanians spend largest portion of wages on rent in Baltic States
A Lithuanian needs to spend nearly 80% of the average wage to rent a one-room apartment in the centre of Vilnius, much higher than the proportion that people in other Baltic States have to spend. […]
CORPORATE
Business confidence in Lithuania is improving but slowly
Lithuanian business sentiment improved in March as the confidence indicator rose to -1 from -5 in February, according to the Lithuanian Statistics Department‘s business trends and expectations survey data for March. […]
CORPORATE
Lithuanian central bank warns banks may have to increase capital requirements
Lithuanian commercial banks may have to accumulate additional capital buffers for risk control, said Vitas Vasiliauskas, the head of Bank of Lithuania, at the Lithuanian Banking Association conference. […]
Energy
Lithuania‘s LNG terminal has started sinking
The LNG terminal in Klaipėda has started sinking due to an unusual accumulation of rust and deterioration in the metal plates that form the hull of the ship, the Klaipėda State Seaport authority has warned. […]
CORPORATE
US moving from talk to action – Lithuanian military expert
The United States decision to deploy an additional armoured brigade to Eastern Europe illustrates the change in US policy in the region and a move from talk to action, said Lithuanian military analyst Deividas Šlekys on Žinių Radijas. […]
CORPORATE
Schengen facing ‘real threat’, Lithuania’s border guard chief says
Free movement within the European Union‘s Schengen zone is facing a challenge, unless the EU effectively protects its external borders, says Renatas Požėla, the chief of Lithuania’s State Border Guard Service. […]
European Union
EC to discuss resuming food exports to Russia, says Andriukaitis
The European Commission hopes to soon reopen discussions with Russia on the resumption of exports of certain food products, including milk, to Russia, Vytenis Andriukaitis, the Commission’s member in charge of health and food safety, has said. […]
Foreign affairs
Privacy must be balanced against security in fight against terrorism – Grybauskaitė
During her visit to Washington, Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaitė said that, in the fight against terrorism, we must find a balance between privacy, human rights and security. In an interview with CNN, she also underscored the importance of NATO in the fight against terrorism. […]
CORPORATE
Paksas to present candidates for interior minister post
Rolandas Paksas, the leader of the Order and Justice party, is presenting candidates to the post of minister of the interior to the for minister on Friday. […]
CORPORATE
Turnover at Lithuania’s major shopping malls grew 10%
Lithuania’s major shopping malls report that sales revenues of their tenants grew by one-tenth last year. […]
European Union
EC considers additional support for Lithuania’s dairy farmers
The European Commission considers providing additional financial support to milk producers in Lithuania and other European Union’s (EU) countries as well as distributing advance payments, EU Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Phil Hogan says. […]
CORPORATE
Perceptions of terrorism: Number of deaths from attacks in Europe has plummeted
With the wave of recent terrorist attacks in Europe there is a perception that the threat from terrorism on the continent is higher than ever, but the statistics show that the number of deaths from terrorist attacks in Europe is far lower now than in previous decades. […]