Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Seimas, is leaving on Tuesday for Reykjavik to take part in a conference of the parliamentary speakers of the eight Nordic and Baltic countries (NB8). […]
The opposition Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats continues to top Lithuania’s popularity rankings and the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LVŽS) holds onto its number two spot, according to an opinion poll released on Tuesday. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Monday signed a legislative package on an overhaul of the civil service into law. […]
The Lithuanian Liberal Movement will continue efforts to prove that information in a State Security Department (VSD) report about MG Baltic‘s influence on it is untrue after the party and the intelligence agency failed to reach an amicable agreement during a preliminary court hearing on Monday. […]
Lithuanian border guards detained four illegal immigrants from Vietnam and a Latvian citizen who was driving them on Saturday, the Lithuanian State Border Guard Service said. […]
With tectonic shifts in global processes, it is becoming vital to renew discussions in Lithuania about the country’s foreign policy direction. The importance of such discussion is also underlined by the context of Lithuanian domestic […]
On the closing night of the best Lithuanian restaurants election, Deivydas Praspaliauskas and his only one-year-old restaurant Armandus once more ranked among the best, taking an honourable seventh place. The chef himself did not appear in the joyous crowd of the event that evening; he was working in the restaurant with his team. He admits that it is pleasant to be appreciated, but it is more important to contribute in promoting Lithuania with his work. […]
From its first minute, the NATO summit meeting became Donald’s “show”. The meeting had not even officially started, but during a breakfast with NATO Secretary General J. Stoltenberg, President Trump began to criticise other NATO […]
“Stichijos” (“Elements”) is a creativity and arts festival that does not have an equivalent in the entire Lithuania, and is aimed at promoting the name of the city of Kupiškis. On July 7th, the third iteration of the “Stichijos” event arrived to the Kupiškis lagoon with a resonating name “Mother-in-law’s Tongue”. The event was dedicated to celebrating the centenary of Lithuania’s independence, and the four elements – fire, water, earth and air – that reflected the specific periods of the country’s history, including their spirit, fashion, music, and creative activities Kupiškis Culture Centre wrote in a press release. […]
Works of restoration of the section of Totorių Street from Gediminas Avenue to Labdarių Street were started in the Old Town of the capital. In a couple of months, new asphalt pavement will be built, also replacing about 2000 sidewalk tiles and road curbs. The City allocated about 70 thousand euro for the repair of Totorių Street. The Totorių Street has not undergone any major renovation since the stone pavement was replaced with asphalt on the street, a Vilnius city municipality press release states. […]
The works of installation of new modern automatically lifting barrier gates were started in Gediminas Avenue. The City has arranged for the installation of new stainless steel hydraulically lifted and lowered barrier gates by the end of the summer. This modern system, which cost about 50 000 euro, was brought to the capital from Great Britain. Traffic is restricted in a part of the avenue in the evenings of working days and on weekends, giving way to pedestrians and cyclists, city sightseeing tours and active recreation, a Vilnius city municipality press release states. […]
It is hard to imagine our lives today without smart phones, but soon they might become indispensable at construction sites as well. When developing real estate projects, construction and sustainable real estate development company “YIT Kausta” is the first in Lithuania to start using an application of digital construction for smart devices, which was created by the Danish company “Dalux”. This application allows expanding, transferring to mobile devices and supplementing the Building Information Modelling (BIM) system that is already applied in construction. This way, the system can be applied in a flexible and broader way, a press release from YIT Kausta states. […]
Over the first six months of this year, national cinema in Lithuania has seen a significant rise in attendance, as evidenced by box office returns: ticket sales of Lithuanian films have almost reached 60% of last year’s total (€2.6 million, compared to €4.5 million in 2017), attracting 500,000 viewers (compared to 860,000 for the whole 2017). National cinema has also increased its share in theatre programming to unprecedented 28% of the market, a significant rise from 22% last year, a press release from the Lithuanian Film Centre states. […]
Enterprise Lithuania and Bank of China Limited signed a cooperation memorandum providing Chinese and Lithuanian business communities with an opportunity to develop more efficient cooperation in the fields of trade, investments, services, and industry. The cooperation agreement was signed on 7 July, at the meeting of heads of government of the Central and Eastern European countries and China, held in Sophia, a press release from Enterprise Lithuania states. […]
Representatives of the European Parliament and European Commission are coming to Vilnius this week to see the progress of decommissioning of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant and discuss its funding beyond 2021. […]
Diplomat Kęstutis Kudzmanas, an adviser on foreign affairs to Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Viktoras Pranckietis, is set to be appointed Lithuania’s ambassador to Moldova. […]
Secondary schools in Ireland will offer Lithuanian language classes as of September. […]
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