Ministry of Agriculture
Politics

PM to name candidate for agriculture minister Monday

Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that he will name his candidate for agriculture minister next Monday. […]

Žygimantas Vaičiūnas
Energy

Energy minister sees EU’s N-plant funding proposal as basis for talks

Lithuanian Energy Minister Žygimantas Vaičiūnas sees the European Commission‘s proposal to provide EUR 552 million euros for the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) decommissioning in 2021-2027 as a basis for talks and expects that the country will negotiate more funding for the shutdown facility. […]

Indrė Makaraitytė
CORPORATE

Indrė Makaraitytė. But Skvernelis has a plan B

Let us grant the prime minister’s Russia policy some content. Some may ask, what content? The public wants to hear that Lithuania must maintain especially good relations with its neighbours and particularly if you don’t […]

Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects Lost Shtetl museum render
Society

Ground-breaking ceremony for “The Lost Shtetl,” a unique museum and memorial complex in Lithuania designed by Lahdelma & Mahlamäki architects

On Friday 4th May the ground-breaking ceremony will take place in Šeduva, Lithuania, for The Lost Shtetl Museum and Memorial designed by Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects. The ceremony will mark the official start of on-site preparations for the construction of the 3000m2 museum, which will stand to remember and teach about life in what was a predominantly Jewish area – before local populations were decimated by the Holocaust, according to a press release from Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects. […]

Vilnius new office town from Green Hall Photo
Economy

Catalyst Development Ltd Announces Record Year and New Nearshore Hub in Lithuania

Fast-growing financial services consultancy Catalyst Development Ltd has announced a record year. Between April 2017 and March 2018 [FY18], Catalyst substantially grew its investment base, services, markets, clients, staff and profitability. Since October 2017 alone, Catalyst has achieved a record increase in organic growth and client delivery, tripled its staff numbers, acquired a market-leading asset and wealth consultancy with an offshore base in Jersey and been named as one of the UK’s top 50 Best WorkplacesTM. Today, the firm is announcing the opening of a new nearshore consultancy hub in Vilnius, in partnership with Invest Lithuania, to allow it to further scale its services to clients across all European financial centres, a Catalyst Development press release states. […]

2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate Brian Kobilka
Society

Nobel Prize winner to speak at Life Sciences Baltics 2018 in Vilnius

Brian K. Kobilka, MD, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology and Hélène Irwin Fagan Chair in Cardiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine, the recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on G-protein-coupled receptors, will be the keynote speaker at the Life Sciences Baltics conference to be held in Vilnius, Lithuania on September 26-27, 2018, a press release from Enterprise Lithuania states. […]

Foreign affairs

Lithuania’s transport attaché should start working in Poland from June

Lithuania’s transport attaché should start working in Poland from June. The Baltic country hopes it will help to strengthen cooperation on the implementation of joint transport infrastructure projects of European importance. […]