Antanas Guoga
Economy

MEP Antanas Guoga: Before regulating any new technology first, we need to educate about it

Today, 03th of October, European Parliament voted in favour of the motion for a resolution on distributed ledger technologies and blockchains: building trust with disintermediation. All political group members supported the resolution, which sends a positive message that politicians see this technology as benefiting Europe, a press release from MEP Antanas Guoga‘s office states. […]

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Economy

Lithuania’s govt to start deliberating 2019 budget

Lithuania’s government is starting discussions on the country’s 2019 budget as the document will be submitted to ministers during a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday. […]

Virginijus Sinkevičius
Economy

Life sciences is the top industry among Lithuanian innovators

Lithuania has been gradually becoming one of the high tech centres in the region – the country has defined a goal to become the most attractive European country for the development of the life sciences sector by 2030. On 26 September, during Life Sciences Baltics, the largest international life sciences baltics forum in the Baltic countries, Lithuanian Minister of Economy Virginijus Sinkevičius presented perspectives for the development of the Lithuanian life sciences industry, a press release from Enterprise Lithuania states. […]

FlexStart
Economy

Lithuania’s industrial real estate market to receive boost with launch of ready-to-use facilities

Lithuania’s industrial real estate market will take a big leap forward with the upcoming launch of FlexStart, a new development of customisable industrial premises in Klaipėda FEZ. The project will deliver a much-needed solution to the needs of foreign investors for ready-to-use premises, enabling companies to get up and running in as little as three months. […]

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Economy

Lithuania’s financial regulator launches its regulatory sandbox

Startups and other businesses developing financial technologies (FinTech) will soon be able to test their innovative products in a live environment under the guidance and supervision of the central bank of Lithuania. Submission of applications to enter the Bank of Lithuania regulatory sandbox opens on 15 October 2018, a press release from the institution states. […]

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Economy

Lithuanian agrimin calls on EC to cover farmers’ drought, swine fever losses

Lithuanian Agriculture Minister Giedrius Surplys has called on the European Commission to cover losses incurred by the country’s farmers from drought and swine fever. […]

Economy

Lithuanians have an idea how to reduce crypto mining costs

During the largest non-profit ICT and entrepreneurship event in the Baltic States #SWITCH held in Vilnius, winners of the Smart Energy Hackathon organized by Lietuvos Energija, the energy companies group of Lithuania, were elected. The main prize, EUR 1,500 in the selected cryptocurrency, was awarded to the team that created a platform prototype which is intended for cryptocurrency mining based on the sharing principle. The suggested platform model in each case would enable to find the most suitable place in the world to install computer equipment and to organize cryptocurrency mining for the lowest energy price on that date, a press release from Lietuvos Energija reads. […]

R. Šimašius visits #Tower appartments
Economy

Remigijus Šimašius on #TOWER: the ugly duckling becomes a beautiful swan

On Thursday, mayor of Vilnius, Remigijus Šimašius visited one of the highest residential buildings in Lithuania #Tower to congratulate the project developers on opening the building. During the visit, the mayor had a chance to look at the architecture and premises of the new skyscraper and he was among the first ones to test and evaluate the innovations installed in the building, a press release from Vilnius city municipality states. […]

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Economy

A new attraction centre will open for the citizens of Vilnius.

A Park Town business park located in a strategic area of Vilnius, in a tail of Konstitucijos avenue, next year will invite the citizens of Vilnius to relax in a new spacious terrace. The green space will be
open for both, employees of the business park and everyone who wants to take a look. The company MG Valda, which develops this project, has shown the public how the new recreation area will look like in the centre of the city. […]

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Economy

Some 27 pct of Lithuanians get a pay rise in recent months – Delfi/Spinter poll

Twenty-seven percent of Lithuanians say they have received a pay rise in recent months, with 23.4 percent of the population having had their salaries increased by up to 10 percent, according to an opinion poll conducted by Spinter Tyrimai for Delfi.lt. […]