Politics
Lithuania’s former president beats cancer
Lithuania’s former President Valdas Adamkus has successfully beaten cancer. The former president says his last check-up showed no signs of renewed cancerous growth. […]
Year: 2016
Economy
CORPORATE
Housing ‘more affordable’ in Vilnius despite skyrocketing prices
With housing prices having been on the rise for the past five years, demand has kept pace. According to Head of Valuation & Analysis for Ober-Haus Saulius Vagonis and chief economist for Swedbank Nerijus Mačiulis, […]
CORPORATE
Russian tourists returning to Lithuanian resorts
Over the last several years, Lithuania’s tourism industry has been hit by dwindling numbers of tourists from Russia. However, unrest in other holiday destinations and the stabilizing purchasing power of Russian consumers have allowed a […]
CORPORATE
Lithuania’s brain drain: ‘Some professions are trained for export’
Emigration has been a perennial headache for the Lithuanian government and businesses for more than a decade now. Departures of young and educated people are a particular drain on the country’s resources. […]
Economy
Vilnius council greenlights national stadium concession tender
The Vilnius City Council on Wednesday finalized preparations for the tender for the national stadium concession. Mayor Remigijus Šimašius says the tender would be called shortly to pick a consortium to build and manage the stadium. […]
Sports
Lithuania sees off team to Rio Paralympic Games
Lithuania’s Paralympic national team was seen off to Rio de Janeiro at a ceremony at Vilnius Cathedral Square on Wednesday. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian and Polish presidents to have first face-to-face meeting
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė is scheduled to have a face-to-face meeting with her Polish counterpart, Andrzej Duda, during a regional event in Croatia on Thursday – it will be the first conversation in the format since Duda was elected to the post in August 2015. […]
CORPORATE
Prosecutors drop tax evasion investigation against VP Group
Prosecutors have announced that they are discontinuing an investigation into alleged tax evasion by shareholders of VP Group, one of the biggest companies in Lithuania that owns several shopping malls and the Maxima supermarket chain. […]
Sports
Lithuanian president presents perfume to athletes robbed in Rio
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė has given bottles of perfume to two of the country’s bronze-winning athletes who had their personal belongings stolen in Rio de Janeiro. […]
Society
Foreign affairs
Seimas speaker says persona non grata list should be made public
The list of individuals banned from entering Lithuania should be made public, says Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužinienė. […]
European Union
Lithuania joins call to investigate crimes of European communist regimes
Ministers of five Eastern European countries have issued a joint statement, calling for investigation into the crimes of communist regimes in Europe. […]
Economy
Lithuania’s most influential entrepreneurs and economists
Economist Gitanas Nausėda and businessman Robertas Dargis are believed to be the most influential figures in Lithuania’s business and economy, according to a survey by DELFI. […]
Economy
Lithuanian apple growers struggle to compete with imported fruit
Lithuanian apple growers complain that they cannot compete with imported fruit which are made more affordable by lower taxes and looser quality regulation, Lietuvos Žinios reports. […]
Opinion
‘1990s was a time of great joy and great trauma’
Mimicking and copying Western Europe was one of the main strategies that Lithuanians used to cope with the socio-political and existential chaos after the collapse of communism, says Dr. Rasa Baločkaitė of Vytautas Magnus University. In her research, she applies the concepts of Postcolonialist studies to describe some absurd practices of the 1990s. […]
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Economy
Vilnius to borrow €50m from EIB to refinance debt
The municipality of Vilnius to borrow up to €50 million from the European Investment Bank (EIB) for refinancing earlier loans and investment projects, Mayor Remigijus Šimašius has said. […]
Energy
Defence
Trump ‘doesn’t understand what Article 5 is’ – Biden on defending Baltics
United States Vice-President Joe Biden has said that the Baltic states have no reasons to doubt US commitments to NATO, downplaying the remarks about NATO made by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. […]