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Lithuania first in Europe to fine people for selling energy drinks to minors

Lithuania’s police have registered 11 violations over nine months since Lithuania became the first country in the European Union to ban sale of energy drinks to minors. […]

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Jewish representatives to visit WWII mass grave discovered in Šiauliai

Members of the Committee for the Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries in Europe are to come to Lithuania and visit the mass grave in Lithuania’s northern city of Šiauliai, recently discovered during road construction work, the head of the Jewish Community of Lithuania said on Tuesday. […]

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Students from India come to study in Lithuania

Indian youth looking for higher education are interested in opportunities of study in Europe. An increasing number of Indian students come to Lithuania, according to timesofindia.com. […]

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Lithuania’s population shrank in 2014

On 1 January 2015, the population of the European Union was estimated at 508.2 million, compared with 506.9 million on 1 January 2014. During the year 2014, 5.1 million babies were born in the EU, while 4.9 million persons died, meaning that the EU recorded a positive natural change of its population of 0.2 million, double that of 2013. The remainder of the change is driven mainly by net migration, Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union said. […]

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Lithuania to resettle 30 families of Lithuanian descent from Crimea and eastern Ukraine

Lithuania plans to bring back Lithuanian citizens, people of Lithuanian descent and their families who live in the Crimean peninsula and Ukraine‘s eastern regions of Luhansk and Donetsk. […]