The Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union (LPGU) and the Lithuanian Social Democrat Party (LSDP) coalition’s “Harmonious Lithuanian Cabinet” programme project only dedicated its very last comments to foreign and defence policy – 10 pages of 117. While the new government does not propose any earthshattering changes, some new accents raise eyebrows. […]
Historian Alfredas Bumblauskas tops the list of Lithuania’s most influential public figures, according to a poll by DELFI and the Reitingai magazine. […]
Basketball legend Arvydas Sabonis, the head of the Lithuanian Basketball Federation, tops the list of most influential sports and pop culture people in Lithuania compiled by DELFI. […]
Economist Gitanas Nausėda and businessman Robertas Dargis are believed to be the most influential figures in Lithuania’s business and economy, according to a survey by DELFI. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė tops the list of Lithuania’s most influential politicians in a ranking compiled by DELFI and the magazine Reitingai. […]
Healthcare Minister Juras Požela is in hospital, the spokeswoman for Santariškės Clinics in Vilnius has confirmed.
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Discussions surrounding Lithuania’s Labour Code reform is part of the global trend where capital is challenging workers’ rights and pushing to transfer all risks associated with business cycles onto labour, according to a Linköping University professor who analysed the discourse of both the advocates and opponents of the reform. […]
As the Baltic States try to convince NATO allies that Russia represents a real threat to security in Europe, a retired Danish general said that his country was in a very similar situation during the Cold War as a nation on the borderline between West and East. […]
For several years, Lithuanian education specialists have been noticing a worrying trend – Lithuanian boys’ school grades have been falling steadily. […]
After years of under-investment, a once-comatose Lithuanian army must now learn to walk again, and do so quickly, say high-ranking officials. […]
The US European Command said last weekend that a Russian Su-27 fighter jet “performed erratic and aggressive maneuvers”, flying within 50 feet of an American RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft over the Baltic Sea. […]
Russian OMRP Spetsnaz units may have landed on the coast of Juodkrantė two years ago. This suggestion by the chairman of the parliamentary National Security and Defence Committee Artūras Paulauskas, has caused considerable turmoil and concern. […]
Russia‘s intensifying military activities have forced NATO to respond in kind, with the Alliance saying it will conduct more military exercises in Europe, and the United States promising to deploy far more equipment and forces in Europe. In 2017, Washington is setting aside $3.4 billion for Europe’s defence, but this might turn out to be just the tip of the iceberg. […]
In a city as big as Berlin traffic violations are to be expected. Berliners are particularly annoyed, however, when traffic violations go unpunished, that is, when they are committed by diplomatic staff of foreign embassies in Berlin. Lithuanian diplomats are among the top-ten violators of traffic rules. […]
Lithuanian businessman Žilvinas Marcinkevičius, one of the founders of the Vilniaus Prekyba group, which controls the largest retail chain in the Baltics, Maxima, and many other companies, will be leaving the group. […]
International companies like Google are making deeper inroads into the economies of the Baltic states, but they still choose to pay taxes in European Union countries with more favourable tax conditions. […]
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