The government-run company Būsto Paskolų Draudimas, or Housing Loan Insurance, will search for people who have defaulted on their loans and emigrated to the United Kingdom. […]
The Seimas and the World Lithuanian Community Commission is starting its work in the Lithuanian parliament on Tuesday. The commission’s agenda includes issues related to preservation of Lithuanian citizenship, setting up a voting constituency for expatriates and refugee resettlement. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė has accused the parliament of being influenced by interest groups when it voted down two candidates proposed for the post of prosecutor general. Parliament Speaker Loreta Graužinienė says there will not be another vote until all suspicions are cleared. […]
One month after Russia got itself involved into the Syrian war, there is little doubt that Moscow’s actions, aimed at soothing domestic delusions of grandeur, will only bring more chaos and destruction into the conflict, argues Vytautas Dumbliauskas, Associate Professor at Mykolas Romeris University. […]
A gap between housing prices in Vilnius and other towns in Lithuania is growing. While apartments in Vilnius are becoming more expensive, apartment prices in Kaunas, Šiauliai and Panevėžys are stable or even dropping. […]
Lithuania’s Minister Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė has suggested introducing compulsory treatment for people suffering from alcoholism, a measure that was in place under the Soviet rule and might clash with human rights. The proposal is a reaction to a quadruple homicide by a heavily intoxicated man this week which threw spotlight on the country’s chronic problem with heavy alcohol consumption. […]
Lithuania’s parliament, the Seimas, voted on Thursday in favour of legal amendments that will expand possibilities for Lithuanian nationals to have dual citizenship. […]
Lithuanian Defence Minister Juozas Olekas, Latvian Defence Minister Raimonds Bergmanis and Estonian Economic Affairs and Communications Minister Kristen Michal electronically signed a memorandum on cooperation in cyber security on Wednesday. […]
Russia‘s actions in Europe, eastern Ukraine and Syria require more resolute response from NATO to ensure security of its eastern members, according to Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė who is leaving for Bucharest on Wednesday to meet with leaders of Central-Eastern European NATO member states. […]
Four Lithuanian universities – Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Klaipėda University, Šiauliai University and the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences in Vilnius – have agreed pool their resources and allow students to use facilities in either institution. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė is to meet representatives of the academic community, employers and students to discuss how to increase the quality of higher education. […]
EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis has slammed discussions in Lithuania about selection criteria for refugee resettlement. According to Andriukaitis, who was Lithuania’s healthcare minister before taking the job with the EU Commission, said that selections among people in the face of the current humanitarian crisis would be immoral and go against everything Europe holds as principles. […]
Lithuanians would like to develop their own businesses, but many are afraid or simply do not have an idea for one, SEB Bank has concluded after carrying out a survey in the Baltic states. About one in ten Lithuanians have a business, whereas in Latvia and Estonia the share is twice as big. Many say they do not know enough about how to start a business. […]
On this day last year, the floating LNG regasification and storage unit Independence sailed into the port of Klaipėda. The LNG terminal is a crucial element in Lithuania’s striving for energy independence from Russian gas and electricity imports, but arguments continue about who is going to pay for the facility’s maintenance. […]
The recent ruling by Lithuania’s Constitutional Court, saying that there is too much variation in size among the country’s voting districts, has caused some havoc with only a year left until the next general elections. A group of social democratic MPs have even suggested a radical change in Lithuania’s voting system, although other parties are rather sceptical about the proposal. […]
Proudly transitioning from an aid receiver to an affluent Western society, Lithuania has yet to live up to its commitments of financial help to the world’s poorest. […]
The Lithuanian parliament ratified an agreement on Tuesday, granting privileges, immunities and exemptions to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in the country. […]
The seventh World Lithuanian Economic Forum is starting on Tuesday. This year, it is organized in Israel. […]
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