Lithuania’s parliament will on Saturday discuss President Dalia Grybauskaitė veto on the new Labour Code that is meant to liberalize relations between employers and employees. Under the Seimas statute, MPs should decide during the meeting whether the law should be discussed again or scrapped. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with German Minister of Defence Ursula von der Leyen on Thursday and discussed matters of Lithuanian – German cooperation in enhancing regional security and the implementation of NATO defence and […]
Šiauliai, Lithuania’s fourth biggest city located in northern part of the country, is celebrating its 780-year anniversary. […]
Statistics Lithuania data suggests that the number of foreign-capital firms and their employees increased by a quarter over the past six years in Lithuania. While three global companies moved their production out of the country, […]
An IMF mission commenced work in Lithuania. Representatives from the International Monetary Fund met with Minister of Finance Rasa Budbergytė and discussed the economic situation of Lithuania, state fiscal policy, next year’s budget and measures […]
While the stereotypical perception of emigration in Lithuania holds that most emigrants are low-skilled labourers toiling in the agricultural farms of Norway or the UK, the reality is much more complex, experts say. “Economic reasons […]
Winds of tolerance and human rights appear to be blowing in the run up to the Seimas elections. A highlight of a Tuesday discussion at the Loftas venue, organised by the initiative “Žinau, ką renku” (I know who I’m voting for), was Seimas candidate responses to the question of LGBT rights, with the conservative leader Gabrielius Landsbergis delivering the biggest surprise with his statement in support of same-sex partnership, something his party has vehemently opposed. […]
Darius Mockus, owner and CEO of MG Baltic, one of Lithuania’s biggest manufacturing, trade, real estate and media groups, has been questioned by agents of the Special Investigation Service. […]
As part of its effort to estimate the damage caused by the Soviet occupation, Lithuania wants to dig up archival documents to calculate the balance of financial flows between Vilnius and Moscow during that period, a method that has already been used by neighbouring Latvia, the daily Lietuvos Žinios reports. […]
Polls are now open to elect the Lithuanian Tree of the Year from a pool of 12 “candidates”. […]
German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen, who is on a visit in Vilnius, has thanked Lithuania for its preparations to host German troops who are to be deployed to the country next year as part of NATO‘s multinational battalion. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has reiterated his position that the parliament should overturn President Dalia Grybauskaitė‘s veto of the new Labour Code and adopt a little improved bill by the end of the current parliamentary term. […]
Due to technical issues on the Polish side, the Gas Interconnector Poland-Lithuania (GIPL) project between Lithuania and Poland will be completed at least a year later, by 2020 or even 2021. The delays are not, […]
The Lithuanian prime minister says he will seek to have the new Labour Code ratified by the end of the current parliamentary term and make all the necessary corrections later on. The president vetoed the […]
The so-called army utensils scandal is turning into an open war between the president and the cabinet, Lithuanian analysts say. President Dalia Grybauskaitė has called Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas a liar, stating that […]
The Lithuanian-Polish relations are quite normal and do not need to be normalized, says Vilnius University lecturer Marijuš Antanovič. Instead, he adds, they need a renewal, because in their current situation they are best described as ‘Cold Peace’. […]
A new set of regulations coming into effect on September 20 will put more restrictions on the sale of tobacco used for rolling cigarettes. Retailers will be barred from selling flavoured tobacco as per an […]
A Lithuanian vice-minister of foreign affairs spoke with the UK‘s Minister of State for Immigration Robert Goodwill regarding the attack on a Lithuanian home in Northern Ireland. According to a Foreign Ministry statement, Vice-Minister Mantvydas […]
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