Economy

Lithuanian Railways to grant EUR 3m loan to LJL

Lithuania’s state-owned railway operator Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways) will provide a 3-million-euro loan to financially-troubled Lietuvos Jūrų Laivininkystė (Lithuanian Shipping Company, or LJL). […]

Economy

Enterprises in Lithuania employed 935,000 in 2013

Statistics Lithuania in its annual publication Structural Business Statistics Indicators 2013 reports that back in 2013, there were about 183,000 active enterprises in the country, which employed about 935,000 people. Over the year, the number of enterprises increased by 9.2 percent, the number of persons employed in them – by 4.3 percent. […]

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Economy

Swedbank issues EUR 11m loans to Linas Agro Group companies

Swedbank has granted more than EUR 11 million in loans to poultry farmers and producers – leading Latvian poultry producer AS Putnu Fabrika Kekava has been assigned EUR 9.48 million, whereas the associated company SIA Lielzeltini – EUR 1.91 million euros. The loan will be used to carry out renovations of bird enclosures and infrastructure, modernize the meat processing plant and purchase the new equipment, Linas Agro Group reports. […]

Economy

Unemployment in Lithuania at 8.5 percent in June

In June 2015, Lithuania’s seasonally adjusted unemployment stood at 8.5 percent, slightly up from May with 8.2 percent but down from 10.9 percent compared to June 2014. This June, there were around 127,000 job-seekers in Lithuania, Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union (EU), reports. […]

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Economy

Russia asks Lithuania to stop import of Dutch flowers

On 30 July, the State Plant Service under the Ministry of Agriculture of Lithuania received a note from the Russian food safety supervising authority Rosselkhoznadzor where Russia asks the Plant Service to temporarily suspend phytosanitary certification of flowers grown in the Netherlands because harmful organisms were allegedly found in flowers brought from Lithuania. […]

Economy

Political scientist: Russia could exert influence on Lithuania via Achema Group

The Kremlin could exert influence on Lithuania and try to destabilize the country if Russia’s chemical concern EuroChem Group were to acquire Achemos Grupė (Achema Group), one of Lithuania’s largest concerns, that owns a large fertilizer plant in Jonava and the largest stevedoring company in the port of Klaipeda, a political scientist has said. […]

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Economy

Russian intentions to invest in Lithuanian company trigger national security concerns

After talks emerged about the Russian chemical company EuroChem Group entertaining plans to invest in Lithuania’s Achema Group, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said that any investor would have to go through scrutiny and meet strict national security criteria. Achema Group is the owner of fertilizer manufacturer Achema, one of the biggest companies in the country which is included in the list of enterprises with relevance to Lithuania’s national security. […]

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Economy

Lithuania’s labour code overhaul divides opinions

Lithuania is often described as a country where potential investors are put off by a tax system inherited from the Soviet times and inflexible labour code. Still, the new social model, currently in the works and promised to provide more flexible employer-employee relations, have received a fair deal of criticism. […]