The Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission (LRTK) has recommended to not change the public information law and not expand the list of restricted information. According to it, current regulations are sufficient in order to rapidly respond to the dissemination of information hostile to the country, lrt.lt writes. […]
It is possible, after two or three years, for teachers’ wages to be 20-30% higher than the country’s average wage, Minister of Education, Science and Sports Algirdas Monkevičius told LRT Radio. According to him, for this there is need for national consensus and a long-term plan, lrt.lt writes. […]
The first death from flu complications. The elderly woman, who died in Šiauliai, was suffering from a number of chronic diseases and had not had a flu vaccination. It is believed that she contracted the disease from family members. Flu and other similar disease infection rates are rising around the country and seven municipalities have declared epidemics, lrt.lt writes. […]
Homanit, a leading manufacturer of medium-density (MDF) and high-density (HDF) wood fibreboards from Germany, has announced building a plant in the Vilnius region. The company is expecting to around 100 million euro and hire 440 employees in the first five years of operations, a press release from Invest Lithuania states. […]
There are a lot of competent women in Lithuania who can hold offices of ministers or other important positions, however, women in the Baltic country are not given the opportunity to more actively participate in the process of decision making, Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Wednesday. […]
With the Lithuanian Farmer and Greens Union (LVŽS) congress nearing, “Farmer” leader Ramūnas Karbauskis has spoken to party members, proposing to halve the number of LVŽS deputies. The party chairman would like to not longer have Seimas first Vice Speaker Rima Baškienė and Seimas Vice Speaker Arvydas Nekrošius as his deputies, LRT’s Laba Diena, Lietuva reports, according to lrt.lt. […]
Civic electoral committees aiming to compete for seats in the city municipal council are complaining that they cannot form a coalition, while parties are able to. Discontent, five committees are saying that in terms of the electoral campaign, they are ignored and discriminated. Due to this, they have called upon the Central Electoral Commission (VRK) for explanations, lrt.lt writes. […]
Which country do Lithuanians see as the friendliest and which – as the most hostile? What is the Lithuanian people’s perception of Donald Trump, Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin? What leads to such choices? After asking this of Lithuanian citizens in a number of surveys, not only old truths surface, but also unexpected details. […]
A month ago, Lithuania was the first country in Europe to grant a specialised banking license to the company Revolut, which caused member of Seimas Stasys Jakeliūnas suspicions. The MP contacted the Financial Crime Investigation Service (FNTT) and State Security Department (VSD), asking them to check the financial company’s business model and links to Russian politicians, lrt.lt writes. […]
During an official visit to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Minister of Interior Eimutis Misiūnas signed a Lithuanian-Vietnamese agreement on citizen repatriation (hereon – repatriation agreement), a cabinet press release states according to lrt.lt. […]
The Seimas Legal Affairs Committee removed amendments proposed by Ramūnas Karbauskis on the child protection law, which were to be deliberated on Wednesday because according to the committee’s chairwoman Agnė Širinskienė, cabinet conclusions are pending, lrt.lt writes. […]
On Wednesday, Revolut founder and head Nikolay Storonsky has released an open letter, where he rejects accusations of the company’s potential links to the Kremlin that have surfaced in the media, lrt.lt writes. […]
A generation of young Lithuanians has nearly grown up, which has from birth listened to musings on whether Gitanas Nausėda will participate in the presidential elections. Already in 2009, kindergarteners probably knew how to draw a sun, their mom and the house under the Pūčkoriai Outcrop. […]
The amendments to the Labour Code proposed by the “Farmers”, where employers would have to specify wages in job advertisements and the interval for the size, have been met with criticism from experts, who think this will improve neither the employer, nor the employee’s negotiation positions, lrt.lt writes. […]
In order to improve air quality and reduce discomfort for those residing near industry, manufacturing and other objects, which could release sharp odours, it has been proposed to adjust the maximum permitted odour concentration in the air. Related institutions have been handed the legislative projects intended to do so, pending proposals and opinions, a Ministry of Healthcare press release states according to lrt.lt. […]
Last week, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis announced his presidential bid. This decision has finalised matters on the political stage. Gitanas Nausėda, S. Skvernelis and Ingrida Šimonytė gather 40% of the vote according to surveys. Another 40% of potential voters are undecided and the remaining 20% is shared by the other candidates. Thus, the number of candidates is growing and the intrigue is rising. How the presidential election campaign will develop and who has the highest chances was discussed by experts on Monday’s LRT Forumas, lrt.lt writes. […]
Minister of Education, Science and Sports Algirdas Monkevičius is starting meetings with education trade unions. The trade union, which organised a teachers’ strike in December states it will repeat its demands on raising hourly wages and reducing class sizes, lrt.lt writes. […]
Capella Baltica, a Spanish cosmetics and food industry supplier, has increased the amount of its investment at Klaipėda Free Economic Zone from 10 to 13M EUR and plans to open its protein factory in late 2019. […]
The roots of the United Kingdom’s Euroscepticism lie in its imperial past. Its welfare was created by the global economy it ruled itself in a state which spanned the world that the sun never set on. Thus, Brits particularly struggle to commit in a company, where their voice is simply one of twenty-eight. The tradition of a global empire clashes with the club rules. […]
The president’s advisor Mindaugas Lingė was mistaken calling the ruling “Farmer” initiative to gather signatures on a referendum on reducing the number of members of Seimas as having a populist shade. […]
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