Articles by LT Daily

Lithuania has climbed from the 46 place in 2014 to 29th place in this year’s World Bank’s logistics rankings. Latvia occupies 43rd place (down from the 36th position), Estonia rose one place to 38th, Poland […]

Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius excluded discussion of a new partnership law for unmarried couples from yesterday’s cabinet agenda after a sermon by Archbishop Gintaras Grušas sermon that criticized the move and a letter from the […]

The price of electricity in Lithuania‘s Nord Pool Spot area jumped 23% in June but was still down 5% on the same month in 2015 according to Litgrid. The average price was €40.50/MWh in June […]

It is time for NATO to guarantee the security of Lithuania and the Baltic States by installing credible military deterrence capabilities, Lithuania’s president Dalia Grybauskaite said ahead of the Warsaw NATO summit starting Friday. “Since […]

Green energy company Modus energija has installed a 5.7 MW solar panel farm in Belarus which is the largest in the region. The farm will be able to annually produce 6.27 m. kWh of electricity […]

Ahead of an extraordinary session of the Seimas to review the presidential veto of the new Labour Code, the president’s chief adviser Lina Antanavičienė has said the aim of the veto was to protect the […]

Fifty-seven percent of Lithuanian companies and 75% of foreign companies have named taxes and tax system as the biggest problem for business, a small and medium-sized enterprises‘ Spinter survey commissioned by Citadele bank shows. Trading […]

Lower levels of growth in the eurozone as a result of Brexit will negatively affect the growth of Lithuanian exports cutting economic growth rates in the next two years, Danske Bank said yesterday. Danske Bank […]

A new report by the National School Evaluation Agency has found that the quality of school classes in Lithuania is only average leading to calls for a higher education requirement for all teachers. “We must […]

Lithuania‘s unemployment rate fell to 8% in May on a seasonally adjusted basis, down from 8.2% in April of this year. Eurozone unemployment rates fell 10.1%, Which fell by 0.1 per cent, down from 11% […]

The Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence and the German and Israeli manufacturers are negotiating the purchase of Boxer infantry fighting vehicles for Lithuania‘s military with an agreement expected to be signed this month. German and […]

Electricity transmission operators predict that Lithuania will be one of the few European countries where electricity consumption will grow annually in the coming decde. Even though the population of the country is decreasing, electricity consumption […]

Lithuanians spend the largest share of their income on food in the EU, a Sprinter tyrimai poll commissioned by Delfi shows. Almost half of Lithuania’s population (48.5%) spend 26%-50% of their income on food. This […]

Lithuania‘s parliament has prevented any future privatisation of the armaments factory, Giraitė Munitions Factory, assigning it as an asset of national strategic importance MPs said that it had been planned to privatise the public company […]

President Dalia Grybauskaite met with employers and trade unions to discuss the Seimas adopted new Labour Code on Thursday and criticised some of its provisions. The President said the new labour code increases social uncertainty […]