Economy
Janušienė wins competition for Lithuanian tax chief’s job
Edita Janušienė, currently chief auditor at the central Bank of Lithuania, has been selected to head the country’s State Tax Inspectorate (STI) for the next four years. […]
Year: 2017
Politics
Minster of Foreign Affairs spars with Russia Today journalist at Vilnius conference
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius sparred with a journalist of the Kremlin-financed television channel Russia Today over propaganda and journalists working for state-controlled media during an international conference on the safety of journalists in Vilnius on Monday. […]
Defence
Troops to leave for multinational operations areas in Afghanistan, Iraq
The Lithuanian Armed Forces‘ Joint Staff Headquarters in Vilnius are hosting on Tuesday a farewell ceremony for Lithuanian troops leaving for the NATO-led multinational Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan and the US-led multinational mission Inherent Resolve in Iraq, the Defense Ministry said. […]
Defence
Lithuanians asked to pay for ammo after leaving professional military service early
Two men — one has spent four years in professional military service and the other has spent eight years — are beign forced to pay for the bullets they fired while training to defend their homeland, the daily Lietuvos Rytas reported on Tuesday. […]
Politics
PM plans to stay on, if parlt fails to approve forestry reform
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis on Monday denied media reports about his plans to resign, if the parliament fails to give a green light to the restructuring of forestry companies. […]
Energy
EC representative again urges Belarus to conduct Astravyets N-plant stress tests
Frans Timmermans, first vice-president of the European Commission currently on a visit in Vilnius, has again urged Belarus to conduct internationally-monitored stress tests of the Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant currently under construction close to Lithuania. […]
CORPORATE
Why everyone wants to reform the forestries, but speak of the PM’s resignation?
The forestry reform may amaze those who have not been following events closely. Consider yourselves – the “Farmers” are in support, the majority of the opposition as well, at least so far and only the […]
Politics
President signs new lobbyism bill into law
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė has signed the parliament-approved bill on lobbyist operations into law. […]
Defence
NATO jets scrambled once from Lithuania last week over Russian warplanes
NATO fighter-jets serving in the Baltic air-policing mission were last week scrambled from Lithuania once to intercept Russian warplanes flying above the Baltic Sea, the Lithuanian Defense Ministry said on Monday. […]
Foreign affairs
Norkus should become Lithuania’s ambassador to UK
Diplomat Renatas Norkus should become Lithuania’s new ambassador to the United Kingdom, which is leaving the European Union (EU). […]
CORPORATE
An expat’s view on buying and selling real estate in Lithuania
Buying or selling real estate is one of the most important financial decisions we will ever make. But it’s so much more than that, it’s the place where we will potentially raise our family, share good times and bad, watch our children grow and watch ourselves grow older. The buying or selling of real estate is, in a very real sense, trading the crucible of our dreams. […]
Politics
2 new suspects in January 13 coup trial, probe dropped in connected to 7 more
The Lithuanian Prosecutor General‘s Office said it had handed to court another part of the January 13 case of attempted coup to court on Monday, with charges brought against two more individuals. […]
History
Bankruptcy of the Jewish community in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Ideas about tremendous wealth of the Jews, their well-being, which was thought to have been created by incurring losses on the Christians, was prevalent in the society of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ( GDL and later periods). The reality, however, was quite different. Only a small part of the Jews was successful business people, the majority of them that engaged in small businesses, trade and crafts could hardly make both ends meet. […]
CORPORATE
It’s official – Lithuania doesn’t need EU institutions and service centres
On early morning this weekend news portals and radio shows flashed with a message which rapidly descended to the bottom of the news feed: “Lithuania yields on ambitions to attract EU institutions from London.” This […]
Global LT
Lithuania should better inform emigrant about return possibilities – President
Lithuania’s government and ambassadors should be more efficient in provision of information emigrants about their possibilities to return, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said at a Monday’s meeting with heads of the country’s diplomatic missions abroad. […]
Society
European Union
Bundestag speaker Lammert coming to Lithuania
Norbert Lammert, president of Germany‘s lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, is coming to Lithuania this week, lzinios.lt news portal reported. […]
Politics
PM fires back at President’s criticism of government
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis on Friday fired back after President Dalia Grybauskaitė accused the government of “political arrogance” in carrying out reforms. […]
CORPORATE
Seimas’ “Farmers” forgot the party
Over the half year since the Seimas elections, the Lithuanian Farmer and Greens Union (LVŽS) ranks increased by a little over a hundred new members, however a third of the largest Seimas group remain non-partisan. […]
Economy
President accuses Government of ‘arrogance’, calls for improving labor code
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Friday accused the government of “political arrogance” in carrying out reforms and called for the new Labor Code to be improved in workers’ favor. […]