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President Grybauskaitė tells youth organisations to fight disinformation
President Dalia Grybauskaitė discussed civic initiatives and issues of information security with representatives of Lithuanian youth organisations on Tuesday. […]
European Union
Lithuanian EC nominee on his performance before European Parliament: This is not a beauty contest
Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis, the Lithuanian nominee for the European Commission, attended his confirmation hearings at the European Parliament on Tuesday. Andriukaitis, who is tipped for the health portfolio, would not rate his performance, but said that answering questions of the European Parliament members was a worthwhile experience. […]
Economy
New African swine fever case detected in Lithuania
African swine fever (ASF) was ascertained after testing samples of a hunted wild boar in Alytus district, the State Food and Veterinary Service (VMVT) has informed. This is the seventh ASF case in wild boar population in Lithuania and second in Alytus district this year detected in wild animals. […]
Society
Lithuania continues to lose population due to migration
In 2013, international net migration remained negative in Lithuania as the number of emigrants exceeded that of immigrants by 16,800. […]
Society
President Grybauskaitė tells Lithuanian prosecutors to modernize their operations
During her meeting on Tuesday with top officials of the Prosecutor General‘s Office and chief regional prosecutors, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė pointed out lengthy pre-trial investigations, underlined their quality and the need for prosecutors’ offices to modernise. […]
Economy
European Union
Euro area’s Economic Sentiment Indicator drops to 10-month low
The Euro area’s Economic Sentiment Indicator (ESI) fell to 99.9 in September, as compared to 100.6 in August, the European Commission said on Monday. […]
Economy
Vilnius public transport drivers threaten with strike
Lithuanian capital’s public transport drivers threaten to go on strike due to salary delays. […]
Energy
LNG terminal construction proceeding as scheduled, Lithuanian PM says
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says he has no information that the construction work on the liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal might exceed the established timetable. […]
Energy
Ignalina NPP decommissioning twice over budget and 9 years behind schedule
As the Lithuanian Ministry of Energy reviewed the final plan of Ignalina nuclear power plant (NPP) decommissioning, it turned out that the closing costs will stand at EUR 2.6 billion at least, while the closing deadline has been extended for nine years. […]
Economy
Grain price may continue to fall, expert says
Grain market analyst Tadas Povilauskas of the Lithuanian agricultural companies’ Group Litagra says that grain price may continue to fall due to both good harvests and competition of alternative cultures grown by Australian and South American cultivators. […]
Economy
Advice to Lithuanian exporters: Forget China, concentrate on Chinese region or city
Robertas Dargis, head of the Lithuanian Confederation of Industrialists (LPK), is convinced that cooperation among producers is one of the keys to open vast foreign markets to Lithuanian goods. […]
Society
Vilnius commemorates founding day
September 28 is taken as the day of the founding of Vilnius, the present capital of Lithuania. The founder of the city was Grand Duke Gediminas who ruled Lithuania in the 14th century and mentioned the city as his ducal seat in letters dated 1323. The legend says that Gediminas founded the city on the confluence of the rivers Neris and Vilnelė after he had a dream about a howling iron wolf – which represented the great history that was waiting for Vilnius. […]
Economy
Companies contributing to Lithuanian-Polish cooperation to receive awards
Trade and Investment Promotion Section of the Polish Embassy is presenting Polish Business Awards 2014 for the third time. […]
Economy
Lithuania’s domestic credit up EUR 53.2m in August
Over August, the M3 broad monetary aggregate in Lithuania increased by LTL 244.6 million (EUR 70.9 million) and its annual growth rate was 3.6 percent at the end of the month, the Statistics Department of the Bank of Lithuania reports. […]
Economy
Turnover of retail trade companies in Lithuania down 1.1 percent in August
Based on provisional data, in August 2014, the turnover (VAT excluded) of retail trade enterprises (except of motor vehicles and motorcycles) amounted to LTL 2.6984 billion (EUR 782 million); against July, it decreased by 1.1 percent at constant prices (seasonally adjusted – by 0.1 percent), Statistics Lithuania said. […]
Economy
Opposition MPs ask ministry what it does to prevent mass lay-offs in companies hit by Russian embargo
Members of the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) Rimantas Dagys and Kazys Starkevičius have asked the Ministry of Social Security and Labour what actions the ministry undertook over possible mass dismissals of employees. […]
Politics
Lithuanian PM: Political scientists should be at the vanguard of information resistance
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says political scientists should be the vanguard in the context of recent events in Ukraine and amidst the information war. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian foreign minister speaks for waving veto right at UN Security Council on grave crimes
Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius participated at the high-level event over limiting the use of the veto right at the United Nations Security Council in case of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity. […]