Economy
PM expects wages to rise in future
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis expects wages to rise in the future as local businesses will face competition for workers from foreign-owned companies. […]
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Politics
Landsbergis was Lithuania’s head of state – PM
Vytautas Landsbergis was Lithuania’s head of state when he served as the speaker of the Supreme Council–Reconstituent Seimas, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said. […]
Foreign affairs
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian, Portuguese presidents to meet in Kaunas
President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Tuesday is to meet with her Portuguese counterpart, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who comes to Lithuania to visit Portuguese troops deployed in the country. […]
Society
Foreign affairs
Uncategorized
New Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty transmitter to be launched in Lithuania
A new transmitter will be launched in Lithuania this week for broadcasting the Russian and Belarusian-language services of the US Congress-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) aimed at countering Russian propaganda. […]
Foreign affairs
Portuguese president to visit his country’s troops in Lithuania
President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Tuesday will meet with her Portuguese counterpart, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who is coming to Lithuania to visit Portuguese troops deployed in the country. […]
Society
Dargužaitė, Vasiliauskas, Vilytė top list of Lithuania’s most influential civil servants
Government chancellor Milda Dargužaitė, central bank governor Vitas Vasiliauskas and public procurement chief Diana Vilytė are ranked as Lithuania’s most influential civil servants, Delfi.lt reported on Monday. […]
Economy
Wet weather hampers harvesting of cereal crops in Lithuania
The rainy weather that has set in in Lithuania this week starts hampering the harvesting of cereals crops as in some areas it is too wet for combine harvesters to enter the fields. […]
Society
Government to address aero-clubs’ asset ownership issue
As organizers of aviation sports competitions in Lithuania face problems due to the expiration of agreements with regional aero-clubs on the right of use airfields, the government plans to address this issue in the near future. […]
Politics
LFGU leader doubts party’s MPs would back president status for Landsbergis
Ramūnas Karbauskis, chairman of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), says that he doubts that the majority of the ruling party’s lawmakers would support Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis‘ initiative to grant the status of a former head of state and associated guarantees to Vytautas Landsbergis, the former speaker of the Supreme Council–Reconstituent Seimas. […]
Defence
Lithuanian, German presidents visit German troops in Rukla
The Lithuanian and German presidents on Friday visited German military personnel stationed in Rukla, in the central Lithuanian district of Jonava. […]
Society
School year extended by 10 days, national defense, sex education courses added
Lithuania’s new school year starting next week will be ten days longer and several new subjects, including national security and defense and sexuality and family life education, will be added to the curriculum, officials said on Friday. […]
Society
Lithuanian customs officers nab 75 kilos of hashish
Lithuanian customs officers have seized a shipment of 75 kilograms of hashish in the eastern town of Zarasai, the Customs Criminal Service said. […]
Society
Lithuania in for cool weekend with showers
Lithuania is in for a cool weekend with showers forecast across the country, the Hydrometeorological Service said. […]
Global LT
Lithuanians in UK to be educated on human trafficking
An awareness campaign will be launched in the United Kingdom, the country with the largest number of reported cases of Lithuanian nationals sold into slavery and abused, to educate local Lithuanians on human trafficking, the Lithuanian Interior Ministry said. […]
Politics
Politics
Seimas renews discussion about granting president’s status to Landsbergis
A new attempt will be made to grant the status of a former president and associated guarantees to Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuania’s first factual post-Soviet leader who held the post of the speaker of the Supreme Council–Reconstituent Seimas. […]
Foreign affairs
Steinmeier to visit German troops stationed in Lithuania
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier is to visit German troops stationed in Rukla, in the central Lithuanian district of Jonava, on Friday, the second day of his official visit to Lithuania. […]