Year: 2018

Lithuanian border guards have detained a Latvian national with four illegal migrants from Vietnam aboard his car. […]

Seimas amends law to provide more time for organizing referendum

The Lithuanian parliament on Friday amended a law to provide more time for organizing a referendum. […]

TS-LKD’s Haase wins Lithuania’s parlt by-election in Lithuania’s Zanavykai constituency

Irena Haase, representing the opposition conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, has won the Sunday’s by-election in Lithuania’s Zanavykai constituency, held to fill a vacant parliament seat, according to preliminary data from the country’s Central Electoral Commission. […]

Ministry proposes to raise Lithuania’s minimum wage to EUR 430

The Lithuanian Social Security and Labor Ministry proposes to raise the minimum monthly wage by 30 euros to 430 euros next January, but the actual amount will be 555 euros due to taxation changes taking effect in early 2019. […]

The Riga Conference 2018 commences with questions on our future

September 29, 2018 EN.DELFI 0

Today, on 28th September, the largest security and foreign policy forums in the Baltic Sea region – The Rīga Conference 2018 – commences at the National Library of Latvia. Over the next two days the conference will welcome heads of states, experts, diplomats, academics and media representatives together with some 700 experts from around the world discussing touching questions to the Western alliances. […]

Lithuanian president, in New York, calls for fixing labor market gender inequality faster

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has called on UN member states to improve education and break down stereotypes in an effort to fix gender inequality in labor markets at a faster pace. […]

Up to 190 LSDP members joined LSDDP – LSDP leader

Up to 190 members of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) have joined the Lithuanian Social Democratic Labor Party (LSDDP), a new party founded by a group of breakaway members of the former party, the LSDP leader said on Friday. […]

Liberal, Order and Justice MPs appointed Lithuanian parlt vice-speakers

Remigijus Žemaitaitis of the Order and Justice Party and Jonas Liesys of the Liberal Movement were appointed on Friday as vice-speakers of the Lithuanian parliament. […]

Experimental floating solar power plant to be built in Lithuania

Lietuvos Energijos Gamyba (LEG), a part of the state-owned Lietuvos Energija Group, has plans to build an experimental floating photovoltaic solar power plant in Kruonis pumped storage hydroelectric power plant (Kruonis PSHP). The floating solar power plant would be the first in the region, a press release from Lietuvos Energija states. […]

Life sciences is the top industry among Lithuanian innovators

Lithuania has been gradually becoming one of the high tech centres in the region – the country has defined a goal to become the most attractive European country for the development of the life sciences sector by 2030. On 26 September, during Life Sciences Baltics, the largest international life sciences baltics forum in the Baltic countries, Lithuanian Minister of Economy Virginijus Sinkevičius presented perspectives for the development of the Lithuanian life sciences industry, a press release from Enterprise Lithuania states. […]

Lithuania’s industrial real estate market to receive boost with launch of ready-to-use facilities

Lithuania’s industrial real estate market will take a big leap forward with the upcoming launch of FlexStart, a new development of customisable industrial premises in Klaipėda FEZ. The project will deliver a much-needed solution to the needs of foreign investors for ready-to-use premises, enabling companies to get up and running in as little as three months. […]

Karbauskis’ strategic election plan: this could break the entire system

September 28, 2018 Dalia Plikune 0

With the municipal elections drawing closer, Farmer-Greens leader Ramūnas Karbauskis has proposed to allow civic committees to form electoral coalitions with one another and parties. Experts warn that this is a step, which weakens the […]

One of the major festivals of the capital will combine sports and culture

During the last weekend of September, the Lithuanian Exhibition and Congress Centre Litexpo will accommodate one of the major active leisure promotion events in Lithuania’s capital – Vilnius Sports and Culture Festival. It will also embrace a number of weekend events that make part of the European Week of Sport weekend BEACTIVE Night. […]

Book on Baltic Appeal to the United Nations published

The Story of BATUN – Baltic Appeal to the United Nations (1966-1991) by Sirje Okas Ainso, was published in the US in 2018. It was presented at the AABS (Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies) conference at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA, on June 1-3. […]

Lithuanian president, in New York, discusses defense cooperation with US, Norway

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who is attending the United Nations General Assembly in New York, on Thursday met with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg to discuss defense cooperation. […]

Seimas calls on PACE not to restore Russia’s rights

The Seimas of Lithuania has adopted a special resolution calling on the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe not to restore the rights of the Russian delegation in this organization. […]

Globalization has dark side but we cannot reject it, Lithuanian president says

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė, currently on a visit to the United Nations, said on Thursday globalization has a dark side as it has promoted exclusion and inequality. But the president also called against rejecting the ideas of transnationality. […]

Lithuania hopes for US backing over Astravyets NNP, energmin says

Lithuanian Energy Minister Žygimantas Vaičiūnas hopes Washington will back Lithuania in its effort to stop the construction of the Astravyets nuclear power plant in Belarus, or to block power from the nuclear facility, if it started operating. […]

Lithuania’s financial regulator launches its regulatory sandbox