The decision by Maxima LT, Lithuania’s largest retailer that has been slapped with a 16.9-million-euro fine for anti-trust violations, to lower prices for over 1,000 products may have a positive effect on the economy, if it leads to increased competition among retail chains, Nerijus Mačiulis, the chief economist at Swedbank, said on Tuesday. […]
Energy Minister Rokas Masiulis believes that Sweden‘s decision to phase out nuclear power would act as a stimulus for Lithuania’s new nuclear power project, which has stalled with officials saying that they are consulting with Latvia and Estonia, the potential regional partners, and with Japan’s Hitachi. […]
China wants to develop friendly relations with Lithuania after they soured when Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with the Dalai Lama in Vilnius in 2013, the Chinese’s Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson Hua Chunying said in a statement published on the ministry’s website on Tuesday. […]
The Soviet statues on the Green Bridge in central Vilnius will not be removed from the Register of Cultural Monuments, a special panel at the Department of Cultural Heritage, which evaluates immovable cultural heritage objects, decided on Tuesday. […]
At the Lithuanian Embassy in Belgium on Monday, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius presented a Lithuanian Diplomacy Star, the ministry’s award of honour, to Belgian citizen Francina Baeten Van den Brande, the founder and head of the Belgian-Lithuanian friendship association. […]
The European Union on Monday postponed the implementation of new sanctions against representatives of the Russian government and separatists in response to Ukraine‘s request, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius said. […]
The Lithuanian army will expand its forces by 450 troops every year, the country’s Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas said on Monday, presenting activity guidelines for the coming six years. […]
Experts working on amendments to the Labour Code will examine a proposal to liberalize the existing dismissal procedure. […]
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said after arrival at the meeting of European Union’s (EU) foreign ministers on Monday that the West would make a mistake by tiptoeing around Russia, saying that the possible US arms supply to Ukraine would be a sensible step. […]
NATO fighter-jets deployed in Lithuania on the NATO Baltic air policing mission were scrambled twice last week to intercept aircraft that had entered the policed area, the Ministry of National Defence said. […]
Italy, which is serving its first shift in NATO‘s Baltic air policing mission, will leave its fighter-jets in Lithuania longer than planned, while Belgium and Portugal will this year send their troops for training, Lithuanian Defence Minister Juozas Olekas said. […]
Amid fears by some politicians of a new “Munich Agreement” in talks on the situation in eastern Ukraine, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has said that she trusts that German Chancellor Angela Merkel will not betray Ukraine or Lithuania. […]
Akhmed Yevloyev, a high-ranking Russian criminal known as a “vor v zakone,” or “thief in law”, has been issued with a residence permit by the Migration Board of the Vilnius County Police Headquarters, a spokesman for Lithuanian Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis confirmed to BNS on Saturday. […]
To betray Ukraine would mean “to betray ourselves”, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said during a presidential debate at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius on Friday reiterated his call on Latvia to implement the EU’s third energy package and liberalize its gas market. […]
India‘s honorary consulate in Lithuania has been opened in Vilnius on Friday and will be headed by Honorary Consul Rajinder K. Chaudhary, owner of Indian restaurant Sue‘s Indian Raja. […]
The existing ban on the use of right hand drive cars in Lithuania runs counter to the country’s Constitution, the Constitutional Court of Lithuania ruled on Friday. […]
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