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Swedish Business Awards 2015, the first sustainable event in Lithuania

September 8, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

This year is an exceptional year for the Swedish Business Awards in Lithuania. The event celebrates its 10th anniversary. The ceremony of the Awards will become the first sustainable event in the country, organized in accordance with the requirements of ISO 20121:2012 standards. Moreover, the ceremony of the Awards will be honored by the presence of H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė and other prominent Lithuanian and Swedish business, science and political leaders. […]

Lithuania now a mature economy, says IMF

September 4, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

According to the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) latest economic analysis, Lithuania has successfully transitioned from an emerging market into a mature economy. As such, the Baltic country is now considered to be in the same economic category as countries like Germany, the USA and Japan, Invest Lithuania reports. […]

Lithuanian airports step up search for explosives

September 4, 2015 BNS 0

Passenger screening procedures have been stepped up at the Lithuanian airports in Vilnius, Kaunas and Palanga since September 1, with some of the passengers subjected to additional checks for possible contact with explosives. […]

Space technology celebrities gather in Vilnius

September 4, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Famous space technology experts are among the speakers of Vilnius Innovation Forum ‘Innovation Drift‘. Karol Joseph Bobko, an astronaut from United States will take part in the session dedicate to space technology. […]

Innovative products developed by Lithuanians to be presented at Vilnius Innovation Forum

September 3, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

From smart parts of satellites to brand new interactive wooden toys – Vilnius Innovation Forum will host the latest products made in Lithuania. Among them – mobile Parkinson‘s diagnostics application, virtual tutor platform, space shuttle electronics module, mobile apps that can be used instead of the usual conference equipment and many others. […]

AirBaltic opens five new routes from Vilnius

September 3, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

This week, Latvian airline airBaltic is opening five new routes from Vilnius International Airport, the airline has informed. […]

Lithuanian language commission rejects English signs on buses servicing Vilnius airport

September 2, 2015 BNS 0

The State Commission of the Lithuanian Language has not backed a public transport initiative to install Lithuanian-English direction signs on buses crossing central Vilnius and servicing the airport. […]

Lithuanian TVs carve up bigger pie as national broadcaster leaves advertising market

September 2, 2015 BNS 0

The Lithuanian TV industry’s revenues rose by 6 percent last year, with LNK posting the biggest growth and the TV3 Group recording a decline. This year is seen as a turning point as the public broadcaster LRT withdrew from the commercial advertising market, leaving a larger pie for commercial channels, the Verslo Žinios daily reports. […]

US market opened for Lithuanian meat producers

September 1, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Lithuanian businesses will be able to export meat and meat products to the USA, according to a 31 August regulation prepared by the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) of the US Department of Agriculture. […]

Lithuanian tourism video part of UNWTO competition

September 1, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

The United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has launched a tourism video competition which features 51 entries from UNWTO member states. […]

Innovation investor Nicklas Bergman: ‘Curiosity drives human development’

September 1, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Futurist Nicklas Bergman has been investing in new technology for over 20 years. He cooperates closely with Washington-based think tank Tech Cast and Lund University. Mr. Bergman will talk about future technology in Vilnius Innovation Forum 2015, organised by the Ministry of Economy of Lithuania and the Agency for Science, Innovation and Technology. The expert will discuss the changing relationship between the society and technology and its importance to our lives. […]

Third of Lithuanian workers would swap guarantees for higher pay

August 31, 2015 BNS 0

A third of Lithuanians would exchange guarantees at work for a higher salary, shows a poll commissioned by DELFI. Economists say this is nothing out of the ordinary, as people want compensation, while others say this indicates poverty of the working population. […]

Druskininkai has seen more growth in incoming tourism than the country as a whole

Tourism industry holds key to Lithuania’s service export

August 31, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

To completely refocus on the West or, given accrued expertise and familiarity with the neighbours’ mentality, spend additional resources on the East? Entrepreneurs in many industries ask these questions while analyzing economic and financial indices as well as public moods in neighbouring countries. Tourism sector is no exception. […]

Lithuania’s GDP up by 1.4% in Q2 2015 y-o-y

August 28, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Based on more comprehensive business, tax and price statistics, in the second quarter of 2015, GDP at current prices amounted to EUR 9,284.7 million, Statistics Lithuania reports. […]

Lithuania to export meat to US

August 27, 2015 ELTA EN 0

United States officials have confirmed on the phone to the agriculture minister that Lithuania will receive permits to export meat products across the Atlantic. […]

We are incapable to take what has been put on our plate – Grybauskaitė on Rail Baltica

August 27, 2015 ELTA EN 0

President Dalia Grybauskaitė says the Ministry of Transport and Communications and the Government are responsible for the loss of European funding for the Rail Baltica signalling system. Moreover, the inability to prepare attractive funding project for Brussels shows poor communication with the European Commission (EC). […]

Lithuanians do not expect positive economic changes in near-term

August 27, 2015 ELTA EN 0

The Lithuanian Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) remained negative in August – more people claimed that their household’s financial situation worsened or remained the same, while one in ten predicted unemployment to rise in the next 12 months. […]

During th opening of Green Garage, professional maker space in Vilnius

First maker space in Baltic states opens in Vilnius

August 27, 2015 EN.DELFI 0

3D printers and scanners, laser cutters, router machines, cutting-edge computers and an electronics lab: all this has become available in the newly opened Green Garage, the first professional maker space in the Baltic states. The equipment in the workshop is worth €300,000 and is available to everyone who is interested in technology, has ideas or wishes to create something new, Green Garage press office informed. […]

Ministry of Transport to seek operator for e-correspondence system

August 26, 2015 BNS EN 0

The Lithuanian Transport Ministry will seek an operator for an electronic document and message delivery system that will be launched next year, allowing public institutions to stop sending letters by conventional post. […]

Export promotion is giving results

August 26, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Minister of Economy, Evaldas Gustas, presented to the Government accomplishments in business promotion and mitigation of the Russian embargo. He said that implemented measures have given results. […]