Articles by Lithuania Tribune

Dalia Grybauskaitė
Politics

Lithuanian president delivers State of the Nation address: The world is not a peaceful place

June 4, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė made her annual State of the Nation address at the Lithuanian parliament, Seimas, on Thursday. In her speech, the president mostly focused on national defence, security challenges stemming from Russia‘s aggressive policies, as well as emigration of working-age population. Grybauskaitė also stressed the need to work more on addressing social issues, particularly in childcare institutions. […]

Juozas Bernatonis
Politics

Lithuanian justice minister: Same-sex couples are more propaganda than reality

June 4, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Lithuania’s Ministry of Justice has drafted a bill that, if passed, would introduce the institution of partnership into the country’s Civil Code. However, the bill spells out that the possibility to form partnerships would only apply to opposite-sex couples. According to Justice Minister Juozas Bernatonis, there is no need to legalize same-sex partnership because there are hardly any same-sex couples in Lithuania. […]

No Picture
Economy

SAS to launch new Oslo-Vilnius route in autumn

June 2, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

On 29 October, Scandinavian airlines SAS launches a new Oslo – Vilnius route. SAS passengers will be offered four weekly flights on this route, Vilnius Airport said. […]

The Merchant's Club of Vilnius
Society

Seventh Blossom of Hope charity gala to collect funds for cancer diagnosis

May 29, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

The Merchants’ Club in Vilnius will host the seventh consecutive Blossom of Hope gala, organised by International Women’s Association of Vilnius (IWAV) on Saturday, May 30, in its fight against breast cancer. […]

No Picture
Economy

EUROC Lithuania – the largest Western Union site in the world

May 29, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

EUROC Lithuania celebrates the fifth birthday of the establishment. Within the past 4 years, EUROC expanded more than 5 times from the initial plan of 250 employees in 2010 to more than 1,300 employees today (2015 April). During this time, Western Union‘s (WU) centre in Lithuania has experienced the strongest growth in global WU scale. Now EUROC has become the largest WU site in the world, said Invest Lithuania, the government’s foreign investment promotion agency. […]

Unique Jewish heritage site opens in Šeduva. Photo by Arūnas Baltėnas
Society

Unique Jewish heritage site opens in Šeduva

May 28, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

More than two years of work on the restoration and preservation of Jewish heritage in Šeduva were marked in a private ceremony at the town’s recently restored Jewish cemetery (Žvejų gatvė). More than 400 tombstones have been identified and more than 1,300 have been either painstakingly restored or preserved in a tribute to the lives of the thousands of Jews that once comprised the majority of this Lithuanian shtetl. […]

Darius Maikštėnas
Economy

Lithuanian startup Widerfi enters world’s largest accelerator

May 28, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Widerfi, a startup established in Lithuania and formerly known as Cheap Data Communications, has joined MassChallenge – the World’s largest accelerator, and will compete for 500 thousand pounds and 1 million dollar prizes at the end of the year. Widerfi offers a new mobile internet model for travellers and is the first Lithuanian startup to participate in the accelerator which will be held simultaneously in Boston and London. […]

Dalia Grybauskaitė
Politics

President Grybauskaitė welcomes participants of Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s conference

May 27, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

President Dalia Grybauskaitė welcomed the participants of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s conference in Vilnius. Grybauskaitė emphasised that only strong, dynamic and united European Union could meet people’s expectations and offset emerging challenges. […]

Rimantas Vaitkus
Foreign affairs

Rimantas Vaitkus awarded for contributing to relations between Lithuania and Japan

May 25, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

On May 22, 2015, at the residence of the Ambassador of Japan Kazuko Shiraishi, Mr. Rimantas Vaitkus, former director of Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant, was conferred with the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon for his contribution to promotion of mutual understanding, and economic and technical exchanges between Japan and Lithuania. […]