Heritage commission to take up Green Bridge statues issue
The new chairwoman of the State Cultural Heritage Commission will look into the fate of the soviet Green Bridge sculptures that were removed from central Vilnius last summer. […]
The new chairwoman of the State Cultural Heritage Commission will look into the fate of the soviet Green Bridge sculptures that were removed from central Vilnius last summer. […]
Protests have sprung up across a number of countries against the actions of Barnevernet, the Norwegian children’s welfare service that has removed numerous children from migrant families in Norway. Last Thursday, one such protest sprang up in front of the Norwegian embassy in Vilnius but Linas Linkevičius, the Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, said “only a legal path, not populist protests and rallies, can be used to negotiate with Norway for the children that were taken from those Lithuanians”. […]
The European Union must tighten its immigration policies as a massive influx of refugees could otherwise create political instability, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said in an interview to Bloomberg. […]
The Lithuanian government has distributed €1 million among foreign airlines in order to add new routes and make the country more accessible by air. While state subsidies are a common measure of promoting incoming tourism, critics say additional flights will mostly serve Lithuanian migrant workers. […]
The Ministry of Finance has proposed an overhaul of Lithuania’s State Tax Inspectorate (VMI), cutting the number of regional divisions in half. […]
The murder of ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006 was “probably” approved by Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to the report of a British public inquiry into the death. […]
A treetop walkway in Anykščiai has been awarded as one of the most innovative tourism projects at the UN World Tourism Organization’s (UNWTO) 12th Excellence and Innovation in Tourism awards. […]
Edvinas Eimontas has been elected the new president of the Lithuanian Football Federation. […]
Rotten WiFi, a Lithuanian WiFi watchdog startup in the UK, tested the WiFi connections of more than 350 universities around the world and found that Lithuanian universities dominated the top 10 in their rankings. Five of the top 10 positions belong to Lithuanian universities, and these also occupy the top 3 spots. […]
As part of the photo exhibition “Two Worlds”, presenting the photography of Ludo Segers and Sabine Richter, several scenes of Trakai castle and its surroundings will be shown in Brussels and Antwerp, Belgium. […]
Lithuania’s Honorary Consul J. Prunskis met with US Senators John McCain and Mark Kirk, Consul General of Ukraine Andriy Pravednyk, Consul General of Lithuania Marijus Gudynas, and Ukranian leaders to discuss the current situation in Ukraine, Lithuania, and Eastern Europe. […]
On 21 March a joined conference “Connect to Lithuania” by Lithuanian Embassy to Sweden, Stockholm Lithuanian Business Club, network “Global Lithuanian Leaders“, project “Backto.lt” and other partners took place at the residency of Lithuanian ambassador in Stockholm. […]
The American-Lithuanian Business Council, which was set up last year, works to promote investment between the two countries – sometimes by pointing out investment opportunities in, say, Lithuania’s striving for energy independence and sometimes by playing up the Lithuanian ancestry of many a successful US entrepreneur. […]
There are many misconceptions about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) that is being negotiated between the United States and the European Union, says Charles Ries, vice president of the Rand Corporation. […]
As Lithuania’s embassy in Sweden is serving as NATO Contact Point Embassy 2013-2014, Ambassador of Lithuania Eitvydas Bajarūnas met with Swedish Naval Officers Club members on 16 September in Stockholm. […]
Members and friends of the Estonian Chamber of Commerce were invited this week to the opening of Season 2014 and a seminar, where the new additional service for businesses, Mediation Service, was presented. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė accepted letters of credence from Spain‘s Ambassador to Lithuania, Emilio Fernandez-Castano y Diaz-Caneja, the presidential press service informs. […]
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