Foreign affairs
Lithuanian president to chair UN discussion on women’s economic role
Lithuania President Dalia Grybauskaitė is leaving for New York to attend events of the United Nations General Assembly. […]
Month: September 2018
Foreign affairs
Pope says he understands danger to Baltics, pledges support
Pope Francis says he understands the constant danger the Baltic states face, despite Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia having consolidated politically their position in the West. […]
Politics
Seimas makes first step in bringing hope to life prisoners
The Seimas of Lithuania on Tuesday made the first step towards bringing the hope of release to those sentenced to life imprisonment. […]
Economy
Lithuanian agrimin calls on EC to cover farmers’ drought, swine fever losses
Lithuanian Agriculture Minister Giedrius Surplys has called on the European Commission to cover losses incurred by the country’s farmers from drought and swine fever. […]
Politics
Seimas to launch probe of political corruption during previous governments
The Lithuanian Seimas is set to launch a new parliamentary investigation into political corruption during the tenure of previous governments. […]
CORPORATE
Ušackas announces he will not seek the post of president if he loses to Šimonytė in the party primaries
Ingrida Šimonytė has also arrived at the presidential election starting line. Whom will the TS-LKD choose – her or Vygaudas Ušackas? The former minister of finance will compete with the former minister of foreign affairs […]
Economy
Research: small Lithuanian business fails to assess IT potential and risks
Random employees rather than experienced specialists in the field normally are in charge of hardware and software in small Lithuanian enterprises. And even though companies admit to be often facing technological malfunctions, they do not tend to learn from their mistakes. This was revealed by a representative survey of small Lithuanian enterprises ordered by Telia. […]
Economy
Lithuanians have an idea how to reduce crypto mining costs
During the largest non-profit ICT and entrepreneurship event in the Baltic States #SWITCH held in Vilnius, winners of the Smart Energy Hackathon organized by Lietuvos Energija, the energy companies group of Lithuania, were elected. The main prize, EUR 1,500 in the selected cryptocurrency, was awarded to the team that created a platform prototype which is intended for cryptocurrency mining based on the sharing principle. The suggested platform model in each case would enable to find the most suitable place in the world to install computer equipment and to organize cryptocurrency mining for the lowest energy price on that date, a press release from Lietuvos Energija reads. […]
Foreign affairs
Rasa Juknevičienė takes up the position of NATO PA President
On 24 September 2018, Rasa Juknevičienė, Head of the Seimas Delegation to the NATO PA, came to office as President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. She succeeded President Paolo Alli upon the expiration of his national mandate as Member of the Italian Parliament, a statement from the Seimas press office reads. […]
Economy
Remigijus Šimašius on #TOWER: the ugly duckling becomes a beautiful swan
On Thursday, mayor of Vilnius, Remigijus Šimašius visited one of the highest residential buildings in Lithuania #Tower to congratulate the project developers on opening the building. During the visit, the mayor had a chance to look at the architecture and premises of the new skyscraper and he was among the first ones to test and evaluate the innovations installed in the building, a press release from Vilnius city municipality states. […]
CORPORATE
Substation in Ignalina as a Trojan Horse of Belarus at the gates of Lithuania
Žygimantas Vaičiūnas, Minister of Energy, stated last week that not a single kilowatt hour of electricity produced in the Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) may be sold for commercial purposes in Lithuania because the law […]
Economy
A new attraction centre will open for the citizens of Vilnius.
A Park Town business park located in a strategic area of Vilnius, in a tail of Konstitucijos avenue, next year will invite the citizens of Vilnius to relax in a new spacious terrace. The green space will be
open for both, employees of the business park and everyone who wants to take a look. The company MG Valda, which develops this project, has shown the public how the new recreation area will look like in the centre of the city. […]
Politics
Seimas opposition blocks bid to provide state subsidy to breakaway SocDems
The Seimas opposition blocked on Tuesday an overhaul of public funding of political parties that would have paved the way for allocating over 200,000 euros in state budget funds to the Lithuanian Social Democratic Labor Party (LSDDP). […]
Politics
Professor Mažylis to run for European Parliament on Lithuanian conservatives list
Liudas Mažylis, professor at Vytautas Magnus University who has found an original copy of Lithuania’s Act of Independence of 1918 in Germany’s archives, on Tuesday announced his decision to run for a seat in the European Parliament on the list the conservative Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD). […]
Economy
Some 27 pct of Lithuanians get a pay rise in recent months – Delfi/Spinter poll
Twenty-seven percent of Lithuanians say they have received a pay rise in recent months, with 23.4 percent of the population having had their salaries increased by up to 10 percent, according to an opinion poll conducted by Spinter Tyrimai for Delfi.lt. […]
Foreign affairs
Pope arrives in Estonia
Pope Francis arrived in Estonia on Tuesday on the last leg of his trip to the three Baltic countries, a BNS Lithuania reporter accompanying him on the tour said. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian president leaves for UN Week in New York
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is leaving on Tuesday for New York City to attend the annual United Nations General Assembly and to hand a Lithuanian state award to the late Senator John McCain over to his widow. […]
Economy
Baltic Salary Survey reveals which Lithuanian companies pay the most equal salaries
“Baltic Salary Survey”, a compensation research company in Lithuania, yesterday for the first time unveiled which companies are paying the most equal wages to their employees, at the “Equal Pay 2018” awards. The winners were announced based on remuneration survey conducted this year, in which 150 organizations from all over Lithuania participated, a press release from Baltic Salary Survey states. […]
Freetime
Documentary on the Chodakowski sisters releases in October
In October, cinemas will reveal a forgotten page of history, a page about the sisters Chodakowski – Sofia Smetonienė and Jadvyga Tūbelienė, who have committed their lives to the creation of Lithuanian state. A documentary by Ramunė Kudzmanaitė, “Chodakowski Sisters. Lithuanian Case.” reveals dauntless courage of the women, their intelligence and the highly patriotic spirit of the interwar period, a press release fromt the Lithuanian Film Centre states. […]
Foreign affairs
Pope Francis bids farewell to Lithuania
Pope Francis on Tuesday morning bid farewell to Lithuania in a farewell ceremony at Vilnius Airport attended by the country’s political and religious leaders. […]