M.Gandhi and H.Kallenbach sculpture in Lithuania
Foreign affairs

India and Lithuania celebrate their ‘personal bond’ with Kolkata at the heart of it

Hon’ble Governor of West Bengal, Shri Keshari Nath Tripathi, released a book “India and Lithuania: A Personal Bond” in Kolkata on Monday (3 April). Lithuanian Ambassador Laimonas Talat-Kelpša and other high dignitaries also attended the event at the iconic Oxford Bookstore on Park Street. […]

Jonava
CORPORATE

Nausėda and Minister of Economy propose how to save the regions

8-10 regional centres should be identified, infrastructure should be created in them, improving transport links with surrounding towns and villages, investing and seeking there and seeking to attract business, creating jobs. This is the basis […]

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Lithuania #1 among Baltic States by number of tourist overnight stays

Tourists spend more nights in Lithuania than in Latvia or Estonia. According to EUROSTAT, the official statistical office of the European Union, in 2016 the number of overnight stays of tourists (local as well as foreign) who stayed in Lithuanian accommodation establishments, including rural tourism, was the largest in the Baltic states and comprised 7 million, while in Estonia and Latvia this number amounted to 6.2 million and 4.4 million respectively, the State Department of Tourism reported in a press release.

announced in a press release. […]

Medicine
Economy

Special envoy of Denmark comes to discuss the future of European Medicines Agency

On 22 March 2017 Denmark’s special envoy, Lars Rebien Sørensen, will be visiting Lithuania to present the Danish candidacy for hosting European Medicines Agency (EMA) and draw attention to the advantages of the Danish bid. He will meet with Lithuanian high level officials in order to explain why Denmark is working towards getting the EMA relocated from London to Copenhagen. the Danish Embassy in Vilnius announced in a press release. […]

Centre of Registers
Economy

President moves to give public authorities free access to registers

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė proposes that public authorities should be given free access to the state’s registers. […]