January 2018 - Page 12 of 16 - the Lithuania Tribune

Seimas speaker, Nordic, Baltic colleagues to meet China’s president

January 10, 2018 BNS 0

Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis will Wednesday meet with China’s President Xi Jinping as part of his trip to China. […]

Ignalina N-plant chief stepping down

January 9, 2018 BNS 0

Darius Janulevičius is stepping down from the leading post of the Lithuanian Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant amid allegations of lack of transparency in the sales of the company’s properties. […]

Studies by GDL Vilnius residents in Europe

January 9, 2018 Aivas Ragauskas 0

Studies abroad reflect the direction of a country’s integration into educational and cultural spheres as well as its degree. The scope of university studies that had grown in Europe in the 17th-18th century was tied to the processes of professionalization and rationalisation, which accompanied the strengthening of the role and bureaucratization of the state. In the Commonwealth, these trends expressed themselves somewhat less which is why the need for experts with a university education was small. […]

PM doubtful about N-plant’s chief fitness for post

January 9, 2018 BNS 0

Lithuanian society is having reasonable doubts about the suitability of the top executive of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) to continue in the post amid suspicions from the law enforcement, says Lithuania’s Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis. […]

Lithuania becomes associate member of CERN

January 9, 2018 BNS 0

Lithuania on Monday formally became an associate member state of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). […]

Lithuanian ruling MPs initiate parliamentary probe into public broadcaster LRT

January 9, 2018 BNS 0

Lawmakers of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU) are initiating a parliamentary investigation into the management and financial and economic activities of the public broadcaster Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT), Arvydas Nekrošius, vice-speaker of the Seimas, has confirmed to BNS. […]

Commission chair urges formal end to lustration process in Lithuania – daily

January 9, 2018 BNS 0

Lithuania should formally close a lustration process that was started more than a quarter of a century ago, says Algimantas Urmonas, professor at Mykolas Romeris University who has chaired the country’s Lustration Commission for ten years. […]

Ignalina N-plant CEO refuses to say if he’ll resign amid abuse suspicions

January 9, 2018 BNS 0

Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant CEO Darius Janulevičius, suspected by law-enforcement bodies of involvement in a non-transparent auction of the plant’s assets, refuses to comment on whether he intends to step down, saying that he will wait for the energy ministry’s decision. […]

Kęstutis Girnius. Challenges to the president‘s rulership

January 9, 2018 Kestutis Girnius 0

So far President Dalia Grybauskaitė would set the outlines of foreign policy herself, on rare occasions consulting the cabinet. From the very first days of her presidency she allowed everyone to understand that it will […]

Lithuania – new destination for UK financial institutions loosing “passporting rights” after BREXIT

January 9, 2018 EN.DELFI 0

As it is almost clear that that UK banks, investment managers, payment service providers and other financial institutions will lose their “passporting rights” to do business in the European Union, Lithuania competes in attracting international financial companies leaving the UK. The Northern country uses the opportunity to become the forefront of financial technologies in the region and there are many reasons to believe about this success. An attractive legal and technological environment, business minded and advanced supervisory authority open to financial market innovations, qualified and competitive workforce, opportunities to operate across the EU basing from Lithuania – that‘s what put Lithuania to one of the best places on the global FinTech map already now. […]

Strasbourg court to issue judgments in 4 property rights cases against Lithuania

January 9, 2018 BNS 0

The European Court of Human Rights is expected to deliver on Tuesday its judgments on four complaints field by Lithuanian nationals over alleged violations of their right to property. […]

Introduction of cap on cash payments in Lithuania postponed – daily

January 9, 2018 BNS 0

With discussions on imposing a cap on cash payments in Lithuania going on for years, politicians now say that a law setting the limit at 3,000 euros may be passed this year and come into effect next year, the business daily Verslo Žinios reported on Tuesday. […]

Lithuanian genocide centre urges critical approach to KGB agents’ list

January 9, 2018 BNS 0

The Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research Centre says that a register of KGB archival dossiers it has just completed publishing should be viewed with a critical eye. […]

Karbauskis’ Agrokoncernas presents its version

January 9, 2018 Jurga Tvaskiene 0

On Friday representatives of Agrokoncernas, which is owned by the Lithuanian Farmer and Greens Union (LVŽS) chairman, MP Ramūnas Karbauskis, presented their position on recently raised questions regarding the activities of this business group. The […]

The Ball brothers may bring Lithuania more harm than good

January 8, 2018 BNS 0

That Lithuania has become the centre of media attention due to the famous Ball brothers has stoked Lithuanians’ ego. Nothing surprising, after all it is not every day that you will hear something like “Lithuania-mania” […]

Lithuanian watchdog says not to punish foreign periodical distributors for alcohol ads

January 8, 2018 BNS 0

The Lithuanian Drug, Tobacco and Alcohol Control Department promises not to punish, at least for some time, distributors of foreign periodicals containing advertisements for alcoholic beverages as politicians plan to consider measures to allow alcohol advertising in such publications. […]