Articles by LT Daily

Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has travelled to Mongolia to attend the European and Asian summit, but back in 2012 Lithuania identified Mongolia as a trade partner but little has come of it so far. […]

The Lithuanian Youth Council (LiJOT) has launched a structured dialogue initiative Įsitrauk. Nes jaunimo nuomonė svarbi, with which it aims to reach 10,000 young people across the country. LiJOT has set itself the target of […]

Industrial production volumes in Lithuania grew by 3.9% in May on April but fell 0.2% on an annual basis. Eurozone production was up by 0.5% year on year in May while the European Union saw […]

Lithuanian farmers have hugely increased their production of peas and beans in response to growing demand from Asian countries and other foreign markets. The acreage under cultivation for peas in Lithuania doubled this year with […]

Lithuanians are the most active online news readers in Europe with 94% reading news online, with internet penetration increasing all the time, Lithuania has a great potential for electronic services development. Over the past 15 […]

The EU is refusing to provide support for the building of a new cogeneration plant in Kaunas saying Lithuania already has enough of these facilities. Lithuanian authorities claim that heating price in Vilnius and Kaunas […]

The EU has awarded €15 million in financial support to a five-partner project, Blue Baltics, involving AB Klaipėdos Nafta, to develop an LNG bunkering network in Baltic Sea ports. The Blue Baltics project includes investments […]

The gender pay gap, the difference between men’s and women’s wages for the same role, has increased in Lithuania to an average of 14.3%, according to the latest figures. The biggest gap between men’s and […]

Lithuanian state tax revenues were 5.4% ahead of target in the first six months of this year, and 7.8% higher than in the same period last year. Preliminary data from the Ministry of Finance shows […]

The Lithuanian Pig Breeders Association (LKAA) said lax state control of pig producers and indecisiveness by the Ministry of Agriculture and the State Food and Veterinary Service was leading to more cases of African swine […]

Klaipėda port handled nearly 20 million tons of cargo in the first six months of this year – almost 5.7% more than in the same period last year. Klaipėda remained the only port in the […]

Only a little over 3% of Lithuanians would start their own business without savings behind them with 55% saying they would never start a business, according to a Vilmorus survey commissioned by DNB Bank. Around […]

Lithuania has the highest rates of deaths among construction workers in the EU, with this number increasing in summer. Most workers are injured in falls on construction sites according to the State Labour Inspectorate (VDI). […]

The British decision to withdraw from the EU may increase the vehicle prices of some Japanese vehicle makers who have factories in England. Nissan has a factory in Sunderland in the north east of England […]

Lithuanian presdient Dalia Grybauskaitė refused to give an interview to Russian TV at the NATO summit in Warsaw. Estonian portal Uudised.err.ee filmed as Grybauskaitė waved to Estonian journalists and later a reporter approached her. When […]

The new multinational NATO battalions to be stationed in the Baltic States are not perceived as a direct threat in Russia according to a leading Russian analyst. “I think that the military battalions in Poland […]

Lithuania’s ruling coalition’s political council will consider how to deal with President Dalia Grybauskaite vetoes of the Labour Code and assisted reproduction laws on Friday with the parties horse-trading ahead of the meeting. The Social […]