Economy

Enterprises in Lithuania employed 935,000 in 2013

Statistics Lithuania in its annual publication Structural Business Statistics Indicators 2013 reports that back in 2013, there were about 183,000 active enterprises in the country, which employed about 935,000 people. Over the year, the number of enterprises increased by 9.2 percent, the number of persons employed in them – by 4.3 percent. […]

Swedbank
Economy

Swedbank issues EUR 11m loans to Linas Agro Group companies

Swedbank has granted more than EUR 11 million in loans to poultry farmers and producers – leading Latvian poultry producer AS Putnu Fabrika Kekava has been assigned EUR 9.48 million, whereas the associated company SIA Lielzeltini – EUR 1.91 million euros. The loan will be used to carry out renovations of bird enclosures and infrastructure, modernize the meat processing plant and purchase the new equipment, Linas Agro Group reports. […]

Economy

Unemployment in Lithuania at 8.5 percent in June

In June 2015, Lithuania’s seasonally adjusted unemployment stood at 8.5 percent, slightly up from May with 8.2 percent but down from 10.9 percent compared to June 2014. This June, there were around 127,000 job-seekers in Lithuania, Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union (EU), reports. […]

No Picture
Economy

China advises Lithuanian companies to make clusters

A delegation of the Chinese Ministry of Commerce has visited the Lithuanian Ministry of Economy. […]

No Picture
Economy

Russia asks Lithuania to stop import of Dutch flowers

On 30 July, the State Plant Service under the Ministry of Agriculture of Lithuania received a note from the Russian food safety supervising authority Rosselkhoznadzor where Russia asks the Plant Service to temporarily suspend phytosanitary certification of flowers grown in the Netherlands because harmful organisms were allegedly found in flowers brought from Lithuania. […]

Culture

Vilnius mayor happy to trade Green Bridge statues for 16-century Lithuanian Statute

There will be more clarity about the fate of the Soviet statues which were recently removed from the Green Bridge of Vilnius in autumn, says Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius, adding that he has already received six official requests to take the statues. […]

Economy

Supervision of Lithuania’s tourism sector insufficient, auditors say

Implementing the Public Audit Programme of 2015, National Audit Office of Lithuania has already conducted one third of the financial (regularity) audits and prepared their reports. The report of the audit of the Ministry of Economy has been presented to the public – how Ministry as well as institutions under the Ministry performed the delegated functions and used the funds allocated for the implementation of various programmes during 2014, the Office reports. […]

Vladimir Putin
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Putin rejects idea of international tribunal on MH17 crash

Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated in a telephone conversation with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Wednesday that establishing an international tribunal on Flight MH17 crash in Ukraine is inexpedient. […]

Vilnius Airport
Economy

Vilnius airport to be handed to private entrepreneurs

According to Lithuania’s Deputy Transport and Communications Minister Arijandas Šliupas, the ministry is currently intensively working on the concession project of the country’s airports: it is expected to give them to entrepreneurs already next year. This, in the opinion of the deputy minister, will increase revenue to the state budget. […]

Alexei Navalny
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Kremlin rejects reports of banning state officials to mention Navalny’s name

The Kremlin has not set any rules or issued any oral recommendations prohibiting state officials or the heads of state companies to mention the name of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday. […]