Bloomberg terminal. KTU photo
Economy

KTU to offer students access to Bloomberg Professional Service in new financial markets lab

Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) has signed an agreement with leading global financial information company Bloomberg to install a financial markets lab, the first of its kind in Lithuania and the Baltic region. The contract will allow KTU students to access the Bloomberg Professional service, which has more than 320,000 leading business and financial subscribers worldwide. […]

Laivas "Jotvingis"
Defence

Navy ship finishes active duty and will continue standby in Klaipėda Seaport

Upon completion of the active duty in the NATO Response Force Lithuanian Naval ship LNS Jotvingis, a flag ship of Standing NATO Mine Counter-Measures Group One (SNMCMG1), is returning to Klaipėda, Lithuania. Lithuanian Naval Officer Commander Giedrius Premeneckas will continue to command SNMCMG1 from this ship of Lithuanian Navy, which will be moored in Klaipėda Seaport up to the end of January 2015. […]

Attack in Pakistan
Foreign affairs

Lithuanian government condemns terrorist attack in Pakistan

Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly condemns the brutal school attack in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar on 16 December. […]

Industry

Lithuania to surpass Latvia next year as fastest growing eurozone economy

According to Ernst & Young’s (EY) annual Eurozone Economic Growth Forecast, Lithuania will surpass Latvia next year as the fastest growing eurozone economy, even though Latvia’s economic growth is expected to grow faster than this year. […]

Permanent Representative of Lithuania, Ambassador Raimonda Murmokaitė
Foreign affairs

Lithuanian envoy at UN: Human rights violations in Ukraine must be investigated

The Permanent Mission of Lithuania to the United Nations together with non-governmental organizations in the margins of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court on 11 December held a round-table discussion on the role of the International Criminal Court in ensuring accountability for the ongoing human rights violations in Ukraine. […]

Foreign affairs

Lithuanian and US officials discuss bilateral cooperation in Vilnius

On 11 December, Lithuania’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrius Krivas met with Eric Rubin, US Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, who is visiting Lithuania. […]

Algirdas Šemeta

Former Lithuanian EU commissioner Šemeta appointed to head anti-corruption effort in Ukraine

Former EU commissioner and one-time Lithuanian finance minister Algirdas Šemeta is to become Ukraine‘s new anti-corruption boss, Reuters reports. […]