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Lithuania losing position as key re-exporter to East
Lithuania‘s status as a key transit country for re-exporting goods from West to East has started to wane significantly, with re-exports down by 10% in 2015 alone. […]
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Lithuanian president to raise Astravyets NPP issue at Nuclear Security Summit
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is planning to raise the issue of Belarus’ Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant at the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, D.C., this week. […]
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Minimum milk price ‘is unconstitutional and anti-competitive’ – Competition Council
Lithuania’s Competition Council, a regulatory body tasked with ensuring a healthy market and preventing monopolistic or over-dominant competitive acquisitions, has claimed that the Seimas‘ decision to regulate milk purchasing prices strangles competition, limits the personal freedoms of farmers, and possibly violates the constitution. […]
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Lithuania facing a demographic day of reckoning
Over the last 25 years, the population of Lithuania has fallen from 3.7 million to 2.9 million, shrinking by over 1% annually. While predictions of the eventual extinction of the Lithuanian people are premature, the trends are a real cause for concern and will present huge challenges for the country over the coming half-century. […]
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Skvernelis ‘using Peasant-Greens for own advantage’, political scientists say
Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis is taking advantage of participating in upcoming parliamentary election as a frontman for the Peasant and Greens Union without providing a vision for the party, according to political scientists. […]
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Conservatives ‘in identity crisis’ as Labour party promotes new leader
Both the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats and the Labour Party are trying to promote new faces in the run-up to upcoming elections, but political analysts say the Conservatives are suffering from an identity crisis. […]
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EU gives €53m to develop Lithuanian-Polish border region
Around €53 million of European funding has been designated to promote the development of the Lithuanian and Polish border region. […]
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Lithuanian defence minister says NATO partners better understand threat to Baltics
It has been 12 years to the day since Lithuania joined NATO. Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas spoke today about how the Lithuanian government and the Alliance itself are coming to understand the threat that the Baltic states face. […]
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EU commissioner to discuss milk prices in Lithuania
European Union Commissioner for agriculture Phil Hogan is coming to Lithuania to take part in the Baltic agriculture show AgroBalt 2016 in Kaunas this week. […]
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Was there an artistic underground in Soviet Lithuania?
How much space did non-conformist art and artists enjoy in a society where they were inevitably included into the Soviet state machinery? The question was raised in a recent discussion by artists, historians and art critics who research art and artistic production during the Soviet period. […]
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Lithuanian company wins Best Buy award – up there with Lidl, Nike, Mercedes
Lithuanian company Ergo has been awarded a Best Buy Award – for offering the best value for money in transport and property insurance categories. […]
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Sharing economy, security issues to be discussed by World Lithuanian Youth
The World Lithuanian Youth Summit will be held for the third time this summer from July 8-10 with the business, science, politics and culture festival to be held in Prienai district in Harmony Park. […]
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Lithuanian parliament sets minimum milk price but processors oppose move
The Lithuanian parliament, the Seimas, has decided to temporarily set a minimum price for raw milk purchased by processors from dairy farmers. The price controls will remain in effect until 1 January 2017. […]
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Lithuanian PM meets Chinese premier – pushes for more trade
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius met his Chinese counterpart Li Keqiang at an Asian business and politics forum. Butkevičius discussed the possibility of exporting Lithuanian dairy products to China and using the services of Lithuania‘s Klaipėda port and railways to import Chinese goods to Europe. […]
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Larger loads on ships to boost Klaipėda port revenues
The first ship with a 13.6 metre draft has left Klaipėda port after the deepening of the port led to the adoption of a new 13.8 metre limit for ships. […]