Technology
Economy

FinTech Company Moneta International Finds a Home in Lithuania

FinTech company Moneta International, which provides payment services predominantly for the e-commerce sector through an online platform, has set up its global headquarters in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, and is now gearing up for substantial expansion in the near future. Total investment is expected to exceed €1 million, including the Moneta platform and other products under development. […]

Rail Baltica
Economy

Lithuania creates most problems for Rail Baltica implementation – President

President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that Lithuania is creating the most problems for Rail Baltica implementation and the new Estonian president underlines the importance of completing the European standard-gauge railway project despite concerns in Lithuania. […]

Vilnius Tech Park
Economy

Boosting local startups globally at Vilnius Tech Park

Startup Lithuania, a team of Enterprise Lithuania, a government agency to assist startups in Lithuania, relocates to the biggest startup hub in the Baltics and Nordics, soon to be launched in Vilnius. The decision to move part of the government agency closer to startups themselves clearly represents Lithuania’s aim to emerge as the leading startup-friendly ecosystem in the Baltic region. […]

Rasa Budbergytė
Economy

Finmin calls on new Govt not to make draft 2017 budget worse

After the European Commission has asked for clarification from Lithuania over its draft 2017 budget, Finance Minister Rasa Budbergytė says that the EU’s executive body wants additional information regarding the government’s request for a higher deficit due to the so-called social model. The Finance Ministry says, meanwhile, that the Commission does not request additional explanations and does not comment on the draft budget sent to it on October 17, but only reminds the country that its new government, once formed, will have to submit an updated daft budget. […]

The Seimas
Economy

Draft 2017 budget introduced to the Seimas

The Lithuanian finance minister on Tuesday introduced to the parliament a draft 2017 budget that she says focuses on scaling down social exclusion, beefing up national defense and financing the necessary structural reforms. […]

Growth
Economy

Cabinet to discuss Lithuania’s 2017 budget draft

Lithuania’s Cabinet of ministers will Wednesday open discussions into the next year’s budget draft. […]

Lifosa
Economy

Lifosa Co. under criticism over phosphate rock imports from Africa

The Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic’s government has condemned the resumption of phosphate rock shipments from Western Sahara to Lithuania. CEO of Lifosa, the Lithuanian fertilizer company, has assured that its imports came from Morocco and did not know the origin of the raw materials. […]