Economy
Lithuanian mall partly owned by Bono pays disputed taxes – website
A Lithuanian shopping center U2 frontman Bono invested in has agreed to pay additional taxes and late payment penalties, 15min.lt reported on Friday. […]
Articles by BNS
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian, Polish PMs discuss bilateral ties, EU issues
The Lithuanian and Polish prime ministers had a telephone conversation on Friday to discuss bilateral relations and cooperation in the European Union. […]
Defence
European Union
Lithuanian EC member finds no data of worse products for Central, Eastern Europe
There is no evidence of poorer quality of food products supplied to countries in Central and Eastern Europe, says Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis, European commissioner from Lithuania in charge of health and food safety. […]
Foreign affairs
Visa delays in Lithuanian Migration Department caused by bad management – interior minister
Visa-issuing delays in the Migration Department subordinate to the Interior Ministry is a result of poor management, says Lithuania’s Interior Minister Eimutis Misiūnas. The department’s director says she has not had time to hire additional staff, as the minister only signed a decree on a bigger staff in late December. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian railway co to pay EC fine for removed Renge tracks
The state-run railway company Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, LG) will Friday pay the fine of nearly 28 million euros imposed by the European Commission (EC) for the dismantled railway stretch to Renge, Latvia, the company’s CEO Mantas Bartuška confirmed to BNS. […]
Defence
Society
Lithuanian port city’s police probing death of Irish citizen
Police of the Lithuanian port city of Klaipėda are investigating circumstances of the death of an Irish citizen who died in hospital on Thursday after being discovered wandering the streets in early hours of the day. […]
Society
Migration Dept again warns about visa delays
Issuing of national visas is again delayed at Lithuania’s Migration Department. […]
Economy
PM to discuss investment plans with Orlen Lietuva’s new CEO
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis is going to Mažeikiai on Friday to meet with Michal Rudnicki, the new CEO of Orlen Lietuva, company operated by the Polish oil concern Orlen. […]
Politics
Lithuanian PM glad doctor protests free of politics
The mass protest action held in Vilnius on Thursday over salaries of health professionals and other reforms in the health care sector did not turn into a political event, says Lithuania’s Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis. […]
Foreign affairs
PM’s stance on Russia: 2 points in support, 2 against, 2 motives
The call from Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis to resume contacts with Russia on the political level and operations of an intergovernmental commission have made top headlines over the past few days. […]
Politics
Foreign minister may think he’s not member of Lithuania’s cabinet – PM
Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius possibly thinks he is not a member of the government, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said in response to the minister’s scepticism about his idea of reinstating the intergovernmental task force with Russia. […]
Society
Lithuanian officials to draw up rescue plan for European Humanities University
Lithuanian officials plan to draw up a rescue plan for the Vilnius-based European Humanities University (EHU), which is on the brink of closure after getting a repeated negative evaluation from experts. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian watchdog to submit comments on Belarus’ N-plant stress tests by mid-January
Lithuania’s State Nuclear Power Safety Inspectorate (VATESI) expects to submit its comments and questions regarding Belarus’ stress tests report on the Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) to an international group of experts by mid-January. […]
Foreign affairs
President calls PM’s proposal on Russia commission ‘irresponsible’
President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Thursday described as “irresponsible” Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis‘ proposal that a Lithuania-Russia bilateral intergovernmental commission should resume its activities. […]
Foreign affairs
PM backs reestablishment of commission with Russia, foreign minister more cautious
Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that a Lithuania-Russia intergovernmental commission that held its last meeting more than six years ago could resume its activities, but Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius is cautious about the idea, at least for now. […]
Sports
Ball brothers see Lithuanian town as a stop on their journey to NBA
The two teenage sons of LaVar Ball, a flamboyant Los Angeles businessman who has made headlines due to his feud with US President Donald Trump, landed in Lithuania on Wednesday night to play for a local basketball club that they see as a stop on their “journey” to the NBA’s Los Angeles Lakers. […]
Politics
Doctors to rally in Vilnius to demand better conditions, reforms
Lithuanian health professionals will stage a protest action in Vilnius to press their demands for better work conditions and healthcare system reforms. […]
Politics
Lithuania plans to cut number of state enterprises to five – minister
Lithuania will likely have only five companies with the status of a state enterprise in half a year’s time, including the Centre of Registers, the state car registration company Regitra, the State Forestry Enterprise, the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant and an agricultural regulation company, Economy Minister Virginijus Sinkevičius said on Wednesday. […]