Economy
Child money should be EUR 100-150 – Seimas speaker
Child money in Lithuania should be between 100 and 150 euros, says Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis. […]
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Economy
Society
Unity is crucial for Jewish community – Israeli ambassador
Unity is the most important thing to any community, Israel’s Ambassador to Lithuania Amir Maimon said ahead of the election of the chairman of the Jewish Community of Lithuania. […]
Foreign affairs
Khodorkovsky, other Kremlin critics to attend this week’s Vilnius Russia Forum
More than 100 politicians, civil society activists, academicians and journalists from various countries are expected to attend the fourth Vilnius Russia Forum to be held in the Lithuanian capital this week, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. […]
Society
Lithuania is world’s ‘top drinker’ – WHO
Lithuanians consume the most alcohol in the world, according to 2016 data presented by a World Health Organization official in Vilnius on Tuesday. […]
Society
Economy
Central bank calls for pension system reform as worker-to-retiree ratio falls
Amid a rapid decline in Lithuania’s worker-to-retiree pension, the central Bank of Lithuania is sounding the alarm and calling for the pension system to be reformed and for future pensions to be linked to personal contributions. […]
Global LT
Lithuania’s emigration rate remains higher than last year
Statistics show that Lithuania’s official emigration rate did not slow down in April and remained higher than in the same period last year. […]
Society
Truck carrying 676 kg of hashish busted in Lithuania
Lithuanian customs officials have detained a truck en route from Spain, carrying 676 kg of hashish, the Customs Criminal Service said, noting this was the largest drugs shipment busted in the country this year. […]
European Union
PM Skvernelis congratulates new French counterpart
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis on Tuesday congratulated the newly-appointed French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe. […]
Defence
Defence
Over 1,000 troops of NATO communications battalion to train in Kaunas, Lithuania
Troops of the communications battalion of the Jaegers’ Battalion of Vytautas the Great based in Kaunas, Lithuania, are readying for a military exercise, with over 1,000 NATO communications officers planned to train in Kaunas in the framework of the Steadfast Cobalt exercise. […]
Defence
PM views Lithuanian institutions’ stance on cyber security unsatisfactory
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that the attention on cyber security in institutions in Lithuania is insufficient. […]
Defence
Lithuanian firms plan to go ahead with data center project
AmberCore DC and Arcus Novus, the developers of a data center project suspected of links to Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), have reached a deal with prosecutors to annul their transactions that had received a negative opinion from a government commission, the State Security Department and the Prosecutor General’s Office. […]
Economy
Lithuania must reform education system to catch up with Western Europe – IMF
Lithuania’s near-term economic outlook is positive, but there are doubts if the country will manage to catch up with Western Europe in the longer term, the head of the International Monetary Fund‘s mission to Lithuania said Vilnius on Monday, underlining the need for structural reforms and, in the education system, for consolidation of institutions and more flexible programs. […]
Politics
MP Bastys demands criminal case against security officials
Mindaugas Bastys, a member of the Social Democratic political group in the Seimas, continues to challenge prosecutors’ decision not to open a criminal case against the State Security Department‘s officials and prepares to turn to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg. […]
Politics
Chief prosecutor informs EP committee about Paksas probe
Lithuanian Prosecutor General Evaldas Pašilis in early May provided the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs with information about an investigation in which the parliament is asked to lift the legal immunity of MEP Rolandas Paksas, a former Lithuanian president who was impeached in 2004. […]
Society
Police drafted conditions for 120 cars for sole supplier
The Lithuanian Police Department, which is set to buy at least 120 new cars, drafted conditions for the tender for a single supplier, the Public Procurement Agency said. […]
Defence
Cyber attacks may have targeted about 100 domains in Lithuania
The WannaCry cyber attack that has been targeting users worldwide since Friday may have harmed over 100 domains in Lithuania, according to preliminary figures. […]
Politics
STT hands Klaipėda seaport, Latvijas Tilti bribery case to court
Lithuania’s Special Investigation Service (STT) has handed to court a criminal case of corruption at the Klaipėda state-run seaport and Latvijas Tilti company. […]