Neal Maloney, Author at the Lithuania Tribune

Lithuanian basketball team gets their first win, stomping the Finns!

August 5, 2019 Neal Maloney 0

After losing 78:70 to a tough Spanish team, Lithuanian basketball team bounced back tonight with a vengeance, crushing Finland 80:60 (26:18, 15:13, 26:13, 13:16). While missing most of their heavy artillery against Spain in Pamplona, tonight Lithuania brought out […]

Sabonis Jr. serious about making his own mark in basketball

March 2, 2015 Neal Maloney 0

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing one of the great young prospects for the future in Lithuanian basketball, Domantas Sabonis. […]

Unsolved for decades, the question of surname spelling is stuck in Seimas

February 28, 2020 0

The decades-long debate over the spelling of names and surnames in identification documents in Latin letters seems to have no end. When it already seemed that parliament had made progress toward permission to use Latin […]

Jobs market heating up: we near the breaking point

February 22, 2020 0

Gradually declining throughout years of economic uplift, unemployment levels should remain stable or rise slightly this year, specialists predict. The long term unemployment and employment of older individuals will remain difficult situations, but a part […]

Breaking point: in the face of Brexit, Lithuanians rapidly returning

February 20, 2020 0

After almost half a century of membership, the United Kingdom left the European Union on January 31. In the face of this historic withdrawal, increasingly many Lithuanian citizens, who had emigrated to this country, are […]

German REHAU establishing production unit in Klaipėda

February 19, 2020 0

REHAU, a family-owned polymer specialist with annual sales of around EUR 3.5 billion, is establishing a cutting edge production facility in Klaipėda, Lithuania. The facility, which will be located in Klaipėda Free Economic Zone (FEZ), […]

Liudas Mažylis on the danger of Astravyets: We have only one destiny – to be united

February 19, 2020 0

The opening of the first Astravyets nuclear power plant reactor is scheduled for the beginning of this year. At the same time, a movement against the power plant is being established in Lithuania. On the […]

Ongoing negotiations about European minimum wage: what to expect?

February 17, 2020 0

The European Commission has launched a period of formal consultations on the establishment of a minimum wage in all countries of the European Union. What can be expected from such a measure, how employees and […]