Lithuanian Finance Minister Vilius Šapoka has sacked Dainoras Bradauskas, head of the State Tax Inspectorate (STI), after a commission set up by the ministry recommended firing him for corrupt activities and gross official misconduct. […]
Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis on Friday urged Romas Valentukevičius, the head of the Chief Official Ethics Commission, to resign. […]
The anti-globalist, anti-neoliberal movement which contributed to the United Kingdom’s decision to withdraw from the European Union and Donald Trump’s victory in the United States presidential election has supporters in Lithuania as well. Not many […]
Market participants always find explanations why the real estate bubble is not expanding states economist Nerijus Mačiulis. However that it is not happening is displayed not just by various arguments, but also objective metrics. […]
Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius is leaving for Warsaw on Friday to discuss bilateral issues along with strategic energy and transport projects with Poland‘s diplomacy chief Witold Waszczykowski. […]
Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius on Thursday met with representatives of various political groups of the country’s parliament, urging them to pool their efforts over the Astravyets nuclear power plant under construction in Belarus some 50 km from Vilnius. […]
Fields of operations and functions of Lithuania’s foreign vice-ministers Neris Germanas, Darius Skusevičius and Albinas Sananavičius were Thursday approved by decree signed by Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius. […]
The idea to implement universal military conscription has revealed the nation‘s sore. With Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis announcing that universal conscription where all youths leaving school would be called to serve being potentially implemented from 2019, calculations have appeared that the number of those suitable to serve would only reach 6,000. […]
Representatives of the Lithuanian tourism business lack information about airlines’ plans to fly passengers during the summer reconstruction of the Vilnius airport, which is expected to pull down the number of travelers in Lithuania by 40 percent and lead to higher prices of trips. […]
The automobile leasing story is starting to discredit the ruling Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union, says President Dalia Grybauskaitė. […]
The Lithuanian Defence Ministry’s General Inspectorate has completed its probe into two helicopter repair contracts, with the findings to be released by Defence Minister Raimundas Karoblis next week. […]
The Ministry of Economy has prepared and presented relevant institutions a set of legislative changes that propose to make the work of state run companies more transparent by making their management more independent, alfa.lt reported. […]
Theresa May’s plan for the United Kingdom’s divorce with the European Union brought up the pound, even if temporarily. Economist Gitanas Nausėda says that one of the points in the plan is particularly unfavourable for […]
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has received a summons to testify as a witness in a mass trial related to the bloody events of January 13, 1991 in Vilnius. […]
Belarus selectively applies nuclear safety standards in the construction of the Astravyets nuclear power plant, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said on Thursday. […]
High-quality higher education should continue to be available in Lithuania’s regions, but that does not necessarily mean keeping the existing inefficient higher education institutions intact, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Thursday. […]
Lithuania should not tie itself to specific financing figures as its defence spending will depend on geopolitical challenges and available financial resources, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Wednesday. […]
Lithuania needs a bigger defence budget to ensure cyber security and prepare for universal military conscription, says Vytautas Bakas, chairman of the parliament’s Committee on National Security and Defence, which has recently called on political parties to commit to increasing defence spending to 2.5 percent of GDP in 2020. […]
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