Lithuanian economic growth this year has been the slowest among the Baltic countries, but analysts at Danske Bank predict that the country’s gross domestic product growth next year will be faster than in Estonia and, in 2017, will bypass Latvia as well. […]
American news site BuzzFeed has announced 18 places in the world worth visiting in 2016. Lithuania is also on the list. […]
A new information portal designed to ease immigration to Lithuania for highly-skilled specialists and investors from outside the EU is launching this week. The project, entitled Internet Gates, is managed by Invest Lithuania, the foreign direct investment development agency. […]
Only about a third of the country’s entrepreneurs take active steps to achieve tangible results in looking for new business development opportunities, according to a new survey. […]
After the Bank of Lithuania revoked the licence of 4finance, the country’s leading consumer loan company, last week, it said it would contest the decision. Less than a week later, however, the company’s shareholders sacked its general manager Gediminas Velička. […]
Average retirement pensions is to be raised by €8.21, to €265, as of January next year, the Lithuanian government decided on Wednesday. The decision will affect about 857,000 people. […]
Coca-Cola is buying Lithuanian bottled water company Neptūno Vandenys. […]
Swedbank‘s deal with Danske Bank on taking over the latter’s retail banking services might put the Swedish bank into a dominant market position and therefore will need to be signed off by the Competition Council, a lawyer says. Still, there should be no trouble securing the competition watchdog’s approval, the business daily Verslo Žinios reports. […]
Uber, the international ride sharing platform that has recently started operating in Vilnius, is balancing in the “grey area” of legality, a Transport Ministry official says. The ministry and the Lithuanian tax authorities are still waiting for full documentation from the company, Lietuvos Žinios reports. […]
The introduction of the euro at the beginning of 2015 has had a significant economic impact on Lithuania, its citizens and businesses, according to the Bank of Lithuania (LB). […]
Vilnius International Airport is celebrating its 100-year anniversary in December this year. […]
Nearly a year has passed since the adoption of the euro, but nearly LTL 525 million (€152 million) in cash still remains unexchanged by Lithuanians. […]
Lithuanian consumers and businesses saved some €40 million due to lower interest rates after the adoption of the euro a year ago, economists at the Bank of Lithuania say. Costs were also cut on currency exchange and due to lower rates on international money transfers. […]
The Lithuanian government announced on Monday that it would scrap 1,290 positions in government agencies from April of next year. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė signed the 2016 government budget on Monday. […]
Passenger numbers increased by 13% at Vilnius Airport in 2015 to a record three million travellers – the best performance in the history of the airport. […]
As German investment and tourism booms in Lithuania, companies are looking for employees who speak German. Unfortunately, the language does not seem to be very popular with Lithuanian students. […]
Entrepreneurial activity is booming in Lithuania’s three biggest cities – Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda – and the coastal resorts of Neringa and Palanga, according to the 2015 Entrepreneurship Map from the Lithuanian Central Credit Union (LCKU). […]
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