Society
Event to commemorate victims of Mariupol attack to be held in Vilnius
A special event on Monday evening, 26 January, will pay tribute to victims of Saturday’s attack on Mariupol outside the Lithuanian parliament, the Seimas. […]
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Economy
Third of Lithuanian enterprises innovate
In the European Union, just under half (48.9 percent) of enterprises of 10 employees or more reported innovation activity during the period 2010-2012. The proportion of innovative enterprises in the EU dropped in 2010-2012 compared with both 2006-2008 (51.5 percent innovative enterprises) and the peak recorded in 2008-2010 (52.8 percent). This pattern was observed in the majority of Member States, Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, announced based on the Community Innovation Survey 2012. […]
Economy
Rural Development Programme distributed 90 percent of support to Lithuanian beneficiaries
According to the data of the end of December 2014, EUR 2 billion or 90 percent of financial support of the Rural Development Programme for 2007-2013 (RDP) were already paid to Lithuanian beneficiaries. […]
Economy
Most popular flight destinations from Lithuania in 2014 – UK, Germany and Norway
Last year, a total of 3.8 million passengers used the services of Lithuania’s three airports in Vilnius, Kaunas and Palanga, or 9.1 percent more than in 2013. […]
Society
Euro adoption and crisis in Ukraine reduced Lithuanians’ optimism, according to poll
In December 2014 only every third Lithuanian claimed that the situation in the country has been improving. Compared with November 2014, the number of optimists decreased by 6 percent. According to sociologist and lecturer of Vilnius University, Professor Romas Lazutka, the outburst of pessimism at the end of the year was related to the change of national currency and the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine. […]
Politics
Lithuania’s Liberals catch up with Conservatives in polls
The Liberal Movement of Lithuania can boast its most impressive and sustainable rating leap, say political experts referring to sociological research. […]
Economy
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Economy
President Grybauskaitė in Davos: Major global companies show interest in Lithuania
President Dalia Grybauskaitė is attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and is scheduled to meet with heads of Germany, Ukraine and Georgia. According to the president, major global companies like Google, Nasdaq as well as biotechnology and pharmaceutical company Thermo Fisher show interest in investing in Lithuania. […]
Energy
Lithuania’s power generation company becomes market maker
Nasdaq Commodities has welcomed Lietuvos Energijos Gamyba, the national electricity generation company which combines all electricity generation capacities controlled by the state of Lithuania, as a new market maker for the Latvian Electricity Price Area Differential, EPAD RIGA, contracts. […]
Society
Lithuanian courts need to make rulings more understandable and well-reasoned, Supreme Court chief says
Lithuania’s courts are regaining their prestige but there are many challenges ahead, noted Rimvydas Norkus, President of the Supreme Court of Lithuania, at the meeting with President Dalia Grybauskaitė. […]
Energy
Lithuania to study oil extraction prospects
According to the data of the Lithuanian Geological Survey (LGT) under the Ministry of Environment, the Šilutė-Tauragė area (in Western Lithuania) sows promise for extracting hydrocarbons, especially oil. It is therefore planned to announce a tender for exploration and extraction of these resources. […]
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EU will not sacrifice Crimea for peace in Donbass, Lithuanian minister says
Lithuanian Foreign Affairs Minister Linas Linkevičius says that he does not believe that the European Union (EU) will ever recognize the annexation of the Crimean peninsula in exchange for a peaceful settlement of the conflict in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. […]
European Union
EU ministers see no reason to ease sanctions on Russia
European Union foreign ministers said on Monday there were no grounds to lift economic sanctions against Russia despite conciliatory proposals from the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini. […]
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President Grybauskaitė’s advisor: No place for appeasement politics in Ukraine
Chief foreign policy advisor to Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė, Jovita Neliupšienė, says that Russia‘s direct involvement in conflict in the Donbass region is becoming more and more obvious, while the current ceasefire is only relative. […]
Politics
Lithuanian parliament will consider launching CIA prison inquiry
The Lithuanian parliament, the Seimas, is to be proposed to establish a temporary inquiry commission in the spring session to investigate accusations hurled against Lithuania over its participation in the CIA prisoner exchange and secret imprisonment operations. […]
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Lithuania starts Presidency of Baltic Assembly
On 1 January 2015, Lithuania took over the Presidency of the Baltic Assembly. This year, the Seimas plans to hold 14 international events, with the majority of them hosted by the Seimas in Vilnius and four of them held in Kaunas, Klaipėda, Palanga and Šiauliai, the press service of the Lithuanian Parliament said. […]
Society
Lithuania’s education minister urges universities to tighten admission requirements
The Ministry of Education and Science has addressed higher education institutions urging to announce the lowest passing entrance scores in 2015. The necessity to establish admission threshold is provided for in the Law on Higher Education and Research. […]
Society
Interior minister denies reports that Russian criminals are granted residence in Lithuania
Russian citizens Akhmed Yevloyev and Oleg Shamanin have not been granted residence permits in Lithuania, the criminals are not on the Interpol’s wanted list either, says Minister of the Interior Saulius Skvernelis. […]
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Lithuanian businesses catch up with Estonians in innovation plans
Estonian and Lithuanian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are planning to focus more on innovations in 2015, while the number of Latvian SMEs that are planning to invest in innovations has contracted by 9 percent, according to a study conducted by SEB Baltic. […]