Lithuania, along with Hungary, Latvia, Romania and Bulgaria, offer the lowest production costs in the EU, the latest Eurostat data shows. Average hourly labour costs in the manufacturing industry in Lithuania in 2015 was €6.7 […]
Lithuania has surpassed its northern neighbour Latvia when it raised the minimum wage to €380, which is €10 more than in Latvia. However, Latvia has started discussing the possibility to raise the minimum wage to […]
A recent poll asked Lithuania’s ethnic minorities what they would do if the country were attacked by a foreign power.
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Prosecutors have brought formal suspicions of influence peddling and large-scale bribery against Vytautas Gapšys, the Lithuanian Labour Party‘s deputy chairman who has recently resigned as a member of the Seimas. […]
Even though some of the world’s most powerful nations are, or are likely to soon be, led by women, equal gender representation in politics and parliaments is still just an aspiration. Lithuanian gender studies scholar Eglė Krinickienė says that more female MPs leads to better social policies and even economic results. […]
Lithuanian Agriculture Minister Virginija Baltraitienė says that she has no grounds to fire Jonas Milius, director of the State Food and Veterinary Service, but she has advised him to step down.
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Several dozen people gathered outside the Russian Embassy in Vilnius on Monday to commemorate and condemn Russia’s actions in Georgia during the short military conflict in August 2008.
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The old Jewish cemetery in Vilnius has been listed among cultural objects protected by the state, under a decree signed by Lithuania’s Culture Minister Šarūnas Birutis on Friday. […]
Sixteen political parties have submitted all the necessary documents to the Central Electoral Commission to be able to participate in Lithuania’s general elections this October. […]
Lithuanian prosecutors have opened an investigation into anti-gay statements posted in comment sections of Lithuanian online newspapers in the wake of the deadly attack in a night club in Orlando, Florida. […]
Sergey Moiseyenko, a 66-year-old espionage suspect on trial in Lithuania, concealed his Russian citizenship from Lithuanian institutions.
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The Lithuanian basketball team started the Olympic Games with a victory over Brazil, good result for a Lithuanian cyclist and a final for Rūta Meilutytė.
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The Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force Training Squadron is arriving in the Lithuanian port of Klaipėda on Monday on the first visit of Japanese warships in Lithuania.
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2015 has been a slow year for Lithuanian beer makers, with sales inching down 2% compared to the year before. Industry experts say the contraction is to continue, not least because of the shrinking population […]
Lithuanians are no longer satisfied with spending their summers stretched on a beach or picking berries. Nor are tourists happy with merely strolling along the Medieval streets of Vilnius and taking pictures. A budding industry is there to offer them a variety of summer activities.
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A series of terrorist attacks in Europe has made Lithuanian insurance companies think of offering insurance against terrorism risks to their clients, although very few of them currently do. The insurance company If says that […]
A handful of food service companies regularly snatch government contracts, an investigation by Lithuania’s public procurement watchdog has found. The Public Procurement Office, responsible for inspecting how government institutions buy goods and services from private-sector […]
Interior Minister Tomas Žilinskas says that the Iraqi refugee family who have asylum in Lithuania, but have been away in Sweden for more than a month now, have not broken any rules as yet.
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Electricity interconnection with Sweden, NordBalt, has been relaunched after repairs that took 11 days to complete. NordBalt disconnected on July 26. The initial tests showed that a discharge at the reactor hall has broken one […]
A recent study has shown that nearly 40% of Lithuanians do not know how much they are charged for banking services. Experts think this might come from many customers’ belief that monetary transactions entail no […]
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