Lithuania’s image on the international scene is promising: in 2017 alone, 35 fintech companies were established here, and a few weeks ago the 16+1 Heads of Government of China and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe agreed to set up a financial technology coordination centre and organise a high-level fintech conference in 2019. […]
The Lithuanian Health Ministry’s proposals aimed at discouraging smoking should not ruin manufacturers, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Tuesday. […]
Vilnius authorities plan to invest another 38.5 million euros for upgrading the public transport system and by 135 new buses. The Lithuanian capital will purchase electric and hybrid buses for the first time. […]
Lithuania has no plans to build a new airport as it would be too expensive, the country’s Transport Minister Rokas Masiulis says. […]
The Lithuanian capital saw the number of visitors rise by 8 percent in the first half of 2018 from a year earlier and the total number of overnight stays grow by 6.5 percent to almost a million, Go Vilnius, the city’s tourism and business development and agency, said. […]
Lithuania’s Tripartite Council, uniting the government, some employers and trade unions, on Monday failed to agree on increasing the minimum monthly wage as of next year. […]
Lithuania’s government is taking measures to cut state-run railway company Lietuvos Geležinkeliai‘s (Lithuanian Railways) losses linked to the transportation of passengers, set to reach around 34 million euros this year. […]
Lithuania’s Tripartite Council, which brings together representatives of the government, some employers and trade unions, on Monday is to resume discussion on raising the minimum monthly wage next January. […]
Tobacco producers criticize plans to introduce more restrictions in Lithuania, announced by the Ministry of Health, and say the government fails to evaluate their implementation. Moreover, some of the proposals have proved ineffective in the world. […]
Economy Minister Virginijus Sinkevičius believes that Lithuania benefits from labor immigration, saying that Ukrainians and other foreigners who come to work to the country are not driving down local wages. […]
Experimentica, seen as one of Finland’s most promising innovative companies, has established a subsidiary in Lithuania, where it plans to conduct tests with rodents and use the results in the development of medicines. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Wednesday that he does not rule out cutting the VAT rate for basic food products, but added that any such proposal must benefit consumers, not just retailers. […]
German giant HELLA announced about the construction of its plant at the Kaunas Free Economic Zone just 10 months ago. Now, it can already celebrate its first shipment and the team of almost seventy employees, which managed to implement the most optimistic start-up plan for HELLA Lithuania in record time, a press release from the Kaunas FEZ states. […]
Lithuanian retailers say they are open to the government’s intention to more closely check retail chains’ contracts with suppliers. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that his government will make efforts to increase competition in the retail market now dominated by big chains. […]
Retailers and trade unions tentatively agree to large retail chains being closed on two days a year, on Christmas Day and Easter Sunday, but there are no discussions about not working on other Sundays, Social Security and Labor Minister Linas Kukuraitis said on Monday. […]
The recent significant drop in the value of the Turkish lira promises cheaper goods for consumers in Lithuania but brings in more risks for Lithuanian businesses exporting to this Middle Eastern country, analysts say. […]
As Lithuanian construction companies are experiencing a growing lack of qualified specialists, vacant job are more and more often filled by Ukrainians. […]
A price comparison probe by Lithuania’s Justice Ministry and the State Consumer Rights Protection Authority (SCRPA) has found no “drastic” differences in the prices of non-food goods in Lithuania and other EU countries. […]
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