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TEDx hits Vilnius over weekend
TEDx Vilnius kicked off in Lithuania’s capital over the weekend – a conference featuring progressive ideas and inspiring stories – this year it took place at the Lithuanian National Drama Theatre. […]
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‘There is no institution like the Vatican in Islam that can excommunicate extremist Muslims’
There were some 13 million Muslims living in Europe several years ago, according to Pew Research Center, and several more million have come from Syria and Iraq over the last few years. Professor Egdūnas Račius of the Kaunas-based Vytautas Magnus University says that religion is not always the right lens through which to look at and make sense of the world’s Muslims. […]
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Business confidence in Lithuania is improving but slowly
Lithuanian business sentiment improved in March as the confidence indicator rose to -1 from -5 in February, according to the Lithuanian Statistics Department‘s business trends and expectations survey data for March. […]
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Lithuanian central bank warns banks may have to increase capital requirements
Lithuanian commercial banks may have to accumulate additional capital buffers for risk control, said Vitas Vasiliauskas, the head of Bank of Lithuania, at the Lithuanian Banking Association conference. […]
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US moving from talk to action – Lithuanian military expert
The United States decision to deploy an additional armoured brigade to Eastern Europe illustrates the change in US policy in the region and a move from talk to action, said Lithuanian military analyst Deividas Šlekys on Žinių Radijas. […]
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Schengen facing ‘real threat’, Lithuania’s border guard chief says
Free movement within the European Union‘s Schengen zone is facing a challenge, unless the EU effectively protects its external borders, says Renatas Požėla, the chief of Lithuania’s State Border Guard Service. […]
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Paksas to present candidates for interior minister post
Rolandas Paksas, the leader of the Order and Justice party, is presenting candidates to the post of minister of the interior to the for minister on Friday. […]
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Turnover at Lithuania’s major shopping malls grew 10%
Lithuania’s major shopping malls report that sales revenues of their tenants grew by one-tenth last year. […]
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Perceptions of terrorism: Number of deaths from attacks in Europe has plummeted
With the wave of recent terrorist attacks in Europe there is a perception that the threat from terrorism on the continent is higher than ever, but the statistics show that the number of deaths from terrorist attacks in Europe is far lower now than in previous decades. […]
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Lithuanian companies ‘need to harness latest wave of digital tech to survive’
To survive in a changing digital market, Lithuanian companies must makes use of a second wave of advanced digital technologies: mobility, social networks, clouds, big data analytics, and the internet of things. […]
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Lithuanian Special Attaché appointed to EU on state border protection
Eugenijus Liubenka has been appointed as a special state border protection attaché of the Republic of Lithuania to Lithuania‘s representation to the EU. […]
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Lithuanian municipalities’ revenues €80m higher in 2015
Revenues collected by municipalities around Lithuania increased in 2015 with 57 municipalities receiving more than €80 million in extra revenues in 2015, according to Ministry of Finance data. […]
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Terrorist attacks will not encourage Lithuanian expats to return, says economist
Terrorist attacks or a sense of insecurity is not an issue that would encourage Lithuanian emigrants to return to Lithuania, said economist Gitanas Nausėda, adding that return migration policy should not be based on such ideas. […]
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Gazprom ‘tried to undermine Lithuanian LNG terminal’
Russian energy company Gazprom tried to undermine Lithuania’s liquefied natural gas terminal (LNG) at Klaipeda and attempted to put pressure on some of Lithuania’s major gas consumers, the State Security Department (VSD) claimed in a threat to national security assessment released on Wednesday. […]
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EC criticizes Lithuania for slow speeds on Rail Baltica
The European Commission says that the section of the Rail Baltica railway between Kaunas and the Polish border in Lithuania is too slow, vz.lt reports. […]
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Five taxing questions on Lithuania’s proposed VAT cuts
With about six months left to the next general election, cutting taxes is all the rage in the Lithuanian parliament. MPs have submitted several bills suggesting cutting value-added tax (VAT). Some proposals have been discussed more extensively than others, but there is still no clear agreement on a number of points concerning the cuts. […]
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Order and Justice to propose parliamentarian or lawyer to Interior Minister post
The Order and Justice party has at least two candidates in mind for the Interior Minister‘s post after Saulius Skvernelis announced he will be resigning after abandoning his position as an independent to run for the Peasant and Greens Union in upcoming elections. […]
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Police unions fear Skvernelis reforms will be scrapped
The Lithuanian police officers’ union, the Officers‘ National Trade Union (NPPS) fear that reforms begun by Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis may be scrapped by his successor and is threatening to use all legal means to make sure the succeeding minister will continue the reforms started by Skvernelis. […]