The thunderstorm that ripped through Lithuania on Tuesday night and early hours of Wednesday caused substantial damage across the country, flooding cellars, rupturing a gas pipeline and interrupting traffic for a few hours on some streets due to massive rainfall. Bottom levels of some largest malls in Vilnius were also flooded. […]
The reduced value-added tax (VAT) rate on heating in Lithuania could be 15 percent, says Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis. […]
NATO air-policing jets were last week scrambled twice from Lithuania to intercept Russian warplanes flying above the Baltic Sea, the Lithuanian Defense Ministry said. […]
The heavy rainfall in Lithuania on Tuesday evening prevented six airplanes from landing at the Vilnius international airport. In early hours of Wednesday, four of the planes returned to Vilnius, however, two morning flights to Warsaw and Riga were canceled, as the airplanes intended for the flights decided not to return to the Lithuanian capital. […]
After the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union promised to the opposition conservatives to bring back the value-added tax (VAT) discount, the parliament on Tuesday approved the restructuring scheme of the country’s forestry sector that has triggered heated debates in the society. […]
Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the United Arab Emirates, said in Lithuania on Tuesday that the countries should make efforts to step up mutual trade. […]
Lithuania’s parliament on Tuesday transposed a European directive on non-discrimination of European Union (EU) citizens and their family members on grounds of their citizenship, however, partners were left aside. […]
Reintroducing a reduced VAT rate on district heating and hot water services may hold back the government’s planned tax reform, Swedbank Lithuania’s chief economist Nerijus Mačiulis warned on Tuesday. […]
The Lithuanian weekly magazine Veidas is set to stop its print edition and plans to develop its website. […]
Juozas Olekas, a member of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party‘s (LSDP) political group in the Seimas, has accused the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), the senior coalition partner, and the opposition Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats of trading in influence. […]
The leader of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU) says that the makeup of the government coalition remains unchanged after the senior coalition partner on Tuesday signed a deal with the Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats under which the opposition party will back the government’s planned state forest management reform in exchange for a reduced VAT rate on district heating and hot water services. […]
The Lithuanian Association of Hotels and Restaurants wants the short-term accommodation rental activity to be regulated at the national level, saying that hotel owners are now subject to much more taxes and requirements than apartment owners, the business daily Verslo Žinios reported on Tuesday. […]
The Tobruq Legacy 2017 air defense exercise gets underway in the district of Šiauliai, in northern Lithuania, on Tuesday. […]
The Lithuanian Migration Department currently cannot review its decision not to grant asylum to Yevgeni Titov, a Russian journalist, its director said on Monday. […]
The United States on Monday deployed a long-range air defense system Patriot, which is capable of downing missiles, in Lithuania for air defense drills to be held in July, the Lithuanian Defense Ministry said. […]
Yuri Gorsky, an organizer of “Russian Marches”, plans to apply for political asylum in Lithuania after fleeing Russia. […]
Some 31,731 persons declared emigration from Lithuania in January through June this year, which is a steep increase by about 10,000 persons, from 21,248, year-on-year, Statistics Lithuania said on Monday. […]
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