Members of the parliamentary Social Affairs and Labour Committee have divergent views on whether the new Social Model – an extensive package of Labour Code and welfare reforms – will make the labour market more flexible, as is the stated purpose of the package. […]
High youth unemployment might hamper Lithuania’s plans to join the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), says the country’s Labour Minister Algimanta Pabedinskienė. […]
Three Lithuanian members of virtual community Polar expeditions – Algimantas Kuras, Saulius Damulevičius and Vytenis Dapkevičius – are crossing the Baltic Sea on skis. […]
Milk producers being hit by significant losses are calling for resignation of the Minister of Agriculture and say in the absence of government support, they will bring cows into the centre of Vilnius in protest by the end of March. […]
Lithuania will send six additional military police officers to NATO‘s mission in Afghanistan and a water purification unit and staff officers to the United Nations operation in Mali, the Ministry of National Defence told BNS on Tuesday. […]
While new restrictions on the retail hours for alcohol sales were approved on Monday, more work needs to be put into education as changes in the law will not solve the problem alone, said Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius on LRT radio. […]
A liberalised gas market will soon be operating in all three Baltic states which, along with the LNG terminal in Klaipeda, will reduce prices, increase competition and improve security of supply, said Lithuanian Energy Minister Rokas Masiulis. […]
A radical transformation of the education system in Lithuania is needed to narrow the wage gap between Lithuania and other European countries, according to Rokas Grajauskas, chief economist for the Baltic countries at Danske Bank, writing in Lietuvos Žinios. […]
A medical team at Santariškės Hospital for the first time identified and operated on a very rare tumour which was found in a 25 year-old patient. There have been only a few such cases in the world. […]
IT specialists will continue to be the most sought-after employees in Lithuania to 2020 and beyond as skills shortages continue in the key sector. […]
The Social Democratic Party group on Vilnius Municipality Board have put forward a proposal to collect a pillow tax – a €1 charge for hotel accommodation – which would begin to take effect from 2017. […]
Stepping up the the fight against African swine flu, Lithuanian authorities have said all wild boars in Lithuanian forests will have to be counted by the end of February. […]
Turkey‘s Directorate of Religious Affairs is to translate the Koran into the Lithuanian language. The Muslim Holy book was first translated to Lithuanian language in 2008 by poet Sigitas Geda. […]
British broadcaster BBC aired a documentary about Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Saturday as part of a series on the world‘s most influential women. […]
The Lithuanian language is in threat of decline as competition from foreign languages, exclusion from scientific fields and lower literacy levels threaten its well-being. […]
The government has decided that from 2019 vendors will no longer be allowed to give customers plastic bags for free. […]
Lithuania’s Financial Crime Investigation Service is working with Spanish authorities investigating possible money laundering at the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China branch in Madrid. […]
A team of scientists led by the head of the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at Kaunas University of Technology has developed a concrete mixture which can be used to print houses with a 3D printer. […]
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