The Kaipėda University
Energy

LNG competence centre to open its doors in Klaipėda

Opening of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) competence centre in the seaport is a significant event for the Lithuanian LNG cluster members in the outgoing year 2016. A modern training infrastructure, which was marshalled in business incubator of Klaipėda University (KU), will serve the LNG terminal engineering students, as well as the specialists from Lithuania and abroad working in that field, the Klaipėda University stated in a press release. […]

CORPORATE

Minister of Energy: paradox but occupation isn’t over in energy industry

The new Minister of Energy Žygimantas Vaičiūnas does not deny the possibility that in negotiations to disconnect from the so-called BRELL ring there could be tensions, but states that Russia understands the goals of Lithuania and other Baltic States perfectly well. […]

MEP Petras Auštrevičius
CORPORATE

MEP Auštrevičius – The EU and NATO: Finally on the same path

It is understandable why at the end of this year political analysts raise questions from evermore acute angles. Edward Lucas for one has expressed fears as to whether NATO will withstand Donald Trump’s administration or if the European Union can still be saved. […]

Economy

Half-hearted reforms won’t raise competitiveness of the Baltic Region – Swedbank

Russia has exited recession and now all the Baltic Sea region (BSR) economies are expanding, but growth is expected to be modest. The global rise of populism and anti-establishment moods, although promising fiscal expansion that may boost short-term growth, builds up risks of protectionism with a negative impact on long-term growth, Swedbank writes in its annual Baltic Sea Region Report. […]

Gabrielius Landsbergis ir Algirdas Butkevičius
CORPORATE

Social Democrats and Conservatives – a quest for identity

The two largest and up to then most significant parties in Lithuania, the Social Democrats and the Conservatives, not only did not win the elections, albeit losing very differently, but are also standing at a sort of crossroads. Plagued by internal dissent they are seeking their future, striving to free themselves of a crisis of identity and to define their values. Meanwhile political scientists believe that average voters care little who rules – the left or the right, what matters is who resolves their problems. […]

Algirdas Butkevičius, Gediminas Kirkilas, Juozas Olekas
Politics

Socdems to discuss new justmin candidate Friday

The board of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) plan to discuss on Friday candidates for the post of justice minister in the new coalition government. […]

Lithuania's ambassador to the Nazi Germany Kazys Škirpa signs the act of the Klaipėda region hand over to the Nazi Germany. Seated Lithuania's ForMin J. Urbšys and his German counterpart  J. von Ribentrop.  1939 March 23 d.
Society

Vilnius to hold discussion on Kazys Škirpa

The Vilnius Town Hall is hosting on Tuesday evening a discussion on whether or not to rename a street named after Kazys Škirpa, which is located in the heart of the capital. […]