Economy
Lithuania climbs to 16th place on Doing Business index
Lithuania has climbed five places to the 16th spot among 190 rated countries on the World Bank‘s Doing Business rating that assesses business environments. […]
Month: October 2017
CORPORATE
The future of Lithuanian social democracy is cared for
After the former LDDP flank withdrew from the LSDP, a collection of articles asserting concern about the state of Socialist Democracy in Lithuania sprung up in Delfi. The latter concern suggests itself to be honest […]
Culture
We Thought We’d Be Back Soon. I Left With Only My Suit
This is an extract from the book “We Thought We’d Be Back Soon. 18 Stories of Refugees 1940-1944” (compiled and edited by Dalia Stakė Anysas, Dalia Cidzikaitė and Laima Petrauskas VanderStoep, published by Aukso žuvys, 2017). The book is an impressive collection of reminiscences about emigration by Lithuanians to the West during World War II. The conversations with émigrés that are central to the book bring new knowledge about wartime reality and provide insight into the meanings of home and place, and the social impact of the geopolitical upheaval when the state’s sovereignty is annihilated. […]
Society
Economy
Grybauskaitė calls on Lithuanian businesses, farmers to invest in UAE
President Dalia Grybauskaitė, on an official visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), says that Lithuanian business people, high technology experts and farmers have opportunities to establish themselves in the Persian Gulf state’s market. […]
Politics
Conservative MPs propose to name 2019 as year of Lithuanian Jews
Five parliamentarians of the conservative Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats propose to designate 2019 as the year of Lithuanian Jews. […]
Politics
Vilnius’ Liberals sign deal with Poles, SocDems, Order and Justice
After ending its coalition with the conservative Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats at the City Council of Vilnius, Mayor Remigijus Šimašius‘ Liberal Movement has signed a cooperation agreement with the Electoral Action of Poles, the Social Democrats and the Order and Justice party. […]
Economy
Society
Lithuania police nab 17 kg of drugs in car with Russian plates
Police in the southwestern Lithuanian county of Marijampolė said on Tuesday they have detained 17 kilograms of drugs with an estimated street value of half a million euros hidden in a car with Russian plates. […]
Economy
Lithuania’s largest companies become more transparent – study
Lithuania’s largest companies have improved their average transparency score over the past three years, with the ranking topped by the telecoms services providers Tele2 (100 points) and Telia Lietuva (98 points) and the grocery chain Maxima LT (96 points), according to a study by Transparency International (TI) Lithuania. […]
CORPORATE
Jurist proposes how to defend the memory of A. Ramanauskas-Vanagas
With the public up in arms regarding the Rūta Vanagaitė‘s scandalous statements regarding the Lithuanian freedom fighter leader Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas, the general’s daughter has spoken of potentially defending the besmirched memory of her father by […]
CORPORATE
S. Skvernelis: our complaints and worries won’t contain emigration
We ourselves glorify emigration, show it as the only solution, focus on success stories, but do not display the dark side of emigration, hence schoolchildren believe that one has to work very hard in Lithuania, […]
Foreign affairs
EU Budget Commissioner Oettinger to visit Vilnius this week
Guenther Oettinger, the EU commissioner in charge of budget and human resources, is to come on a visit to Lithuania on Thursday. […]
Economy
Ship traffic at Klaipėda port resumes as winds abate
Ship traffic at the Lithuanian seaport of Klaipėda is being resumed on Tuesday as winds have subsided. […]
Defence
Several hundred Lithuanian troops leave for multinational exercise in Germany
Over 350 Lithuanian troops are on Tuesday leaving for Germany to take part in the multinational exercise Allied Spirit VII. […]
Foreign affairs
PM off to Finland to meet with Nordic, Baltic counterparts
Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis is on Tuesday leaving for Finland to take part in an annual meeting of the Nordic and Baltic prime ministers in which Lithuanian government officials expect to reach agreements on energy projects. […]
CORPORATE
Military analyst: R. Vanagaitė stands at the forefront of the information war
The largest scandal of this week – Rūta Vanagaitė‘s statement that Lithuanian independence fighter and one of the leaders of the post-war resistance movement Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas was a KGB agent, an individual who glorified the […]
Economy
Continental wanted to know if people in Kaunas are tolerant to foreigners – ex-minister
Officials from the German auto-parts giant Continental, which on Monday announced plans to build in a new factory in Kaunas, wanted to know if people in Lithuania’s second-biggest city are tolerant toward foreigners and inquired about the situation with kindergartens in the region, a former Lithuanian economy minister who held talks with the German investors said. […]
Society
Lithuanian ministry unveils university network reorganization plan
The Lithuanian Education and Science Ministry has unveiled a university network reorganization plan that calls for merging all universities in the country’s second-biggest city of Kaunas and dividing the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences (LEU) between Vilnius University (VU) and Vytautas Magnus University (VDU). […]
Defence