Preliminary data of the automotive research company AutoTyrimai shows that in December 2014, registration of new passenger vehicles (M1 and N1) increased by 0.5 percent to 1,182 vehicles in Lithuania. […]
According to the State Enterprise Lithuanian Agricultural and Food Market Regulation Agency, by 31 December ten companies have taken benefit of support measures for perishable fruit and vegetables related to the import embargo imposed by Russia. Thirty-six applications were submitted to give fruit and vegetables to charity and 10 applications not to harvest fruit and vegetables. […]
Lithuanian Jews have shown support to the Ukrainian Jewish community which is experiencing difficult times. Last week, before the end of the Jewish holiday Hanukkah, Lithuanian Jews presented books written by Grigory Kanovich to the Ukrainian Jewish community. […]
A number of Lithuanians have already turned to the State Consumer Rights Protection Authority (VVTAT) over change given in litas instead of euros in some of the major shopping centres. […]
On the first working day of 2015, the Migration Board of Vilnius County Police Headquarters received a request from a Lithuanian citizen to have her ethnicity indicated in her passport. The option, which was introduced in a recently adopted law, was exercised by a woman of Ukrainian descent. […]
Residents of Lithuania have started exchanging their savings in litas to euros. A total of 330 post offices will be exchanging litas to euros free of charge from 2 January. […]
National Cyber Security Centre was launched in Lithuania on 1 January. It was founded as a division of the Ministry of National Defence. The establishment of the centre was envisaged in the Law on Cyber Security and the amendments to related legislation. […]
Many Lithuanians once sceptical of the euro are now ready to embrace it. Lithuania this night will become the 19th member of the euro zone. […]
Latvian Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma (Unity) has congratulated Lithuania with its accession to the euro zone on 1 January 2015, the government’s press service informed LETA. […]
The United Nations Security Council, in a 8-2 vote with five abstentions, rejected a resolution on Palestinian statehood which sets a deadline for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Palestinian territories by 2017, CNN reports. […]
Commenting on the discrepancies between the defence funding figures provided by different institutions, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that additional funding for defence will be strictly used according to NATO standards. […]
According to the Ministry of Finance of Lithuania, the central government’s debt in November stood at 39.7 percent of Lithuania’s total projected gross domestic product (GDP) of 2014, LTL 49.673 billion (EUR 14.39 billion). […]
As Lithuania is to become the 19th member of the euro zone on 1 January, Lithuanian Finance Minister Rimantas Šadžius admits that he has not yet got accustomed to the euro and price tags in two currencies still puzzle him. […]
Lithuanians are trying to get rid of cash litas before the official date of the euro adoption. On 29 December alone LTL 27 million (EUR 7.8 million) was deposited in SEB Bank‘s ATMs. This is nearly four times more than on an average day. On 29 December the number of customers in the bank’s branches was also twice the average. […]
According to the Central Electoral Commission (VRK), 23 political parties intend to participate in the municipal elections on 1 March 2015. The deadline to submit application documents to the VRK was Monday, 29 December. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė has commented on the new mayoral election procedures and said that the the self-government reform has not been completed and will require additional amendments to the current laws. […]
Lithuania’s Minister of Finance Rimantas Šadžius says that if the economy and wages grow, then raising the minimum monthly salary to EUR 325 from 1 July will not have a negative effect on public finances. […]
According to Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius, US Secretary of State John Kerry and German Chancellor Angela Merkel were distinctly active in foreign policy this year. Linkevičius also noticed that the role of personalities has been giving way to coordinated work of institutions and international organisations. […]
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