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The protest concert named "Freedom to Rock 'n' Roll"

Concert staged in Vilnius to protest against planned alcohol restrictions at mass events

May 17, 2017 BNS EN 0

Several hundred people gathered outside the parliament building in Vilnius on Tuesday to watch a show staged to protest against the ruling coalition’s plans to restrict alcohol consumption at concerts and other mass events. […]

Ramūnas Karbauskis during the Seimas' elections campaign

Farmers’ victory was not by random chance – strategic plan revealed

March 23, 2017 Egle Samoskaite 0

The Farmer and Greens Union won the Seimas elections by a landslide. A victory or at least good performance was expected, but not to this extent. After the elections the Farmer Greens, unlike other parties, […]

Updated data ‘does not change the fact that Lithuanians are some of the heaviest drinkers in the world’

June 14, 2016 LT Daily 0

On Friday, Statistics Lithuania released updated data on alcohol consumption in Lithuania which in 2015 was 14 litres of pure alcohol per person. The figure has been calculated using updated methodology and shows lower alcohol […]

Lithuania to scrap zero tolerance law for drunk driving

June 13, 2016 www.lrt.lt 0

The Ministry of Interior has decided to refuse the proposal to implement zero tolerance laws for blood alcohol content while driving. […]

Lithuanians may not be Europe’s top drinkers after all

June 9, 2016 BNS 0

Official alcohol consumption statistics put Lithuanians among the top drinkers in Europe, but these figures may be inflated, according to a survey. […]

Lithuanian government greenlights plan to fight alcoholism

April 11, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

The Lithuanian government has endorsed an action plan for 2016 to reduce alcohol consumption in the country. […]

Price of alcohol to rise, ban on advertising considered – Lithuanian parliament

March 25, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

The Lithuanian parliament has started to consider the opposition leader Andrius Kubilius’ proposals aimed at restricting the availability of alcohol to reduce alcohol consumption in Lithuania, especially among children and young people, and to improve public health. […]

Why is Lithuania’s alcohol market shrinking?

March 15, 2016 www.lrt.lt 0

The alcohol market in Lithuania is shrinking, and this is true for both legal and illegal sources of alcohol. Experts say that both alcohol consumption and sales are falling, and they had some insights into why this might be happening. […]

Figures putting Lithuania among top alcohol consuming countries not accurate

March 9, 2016 LT Daily 0

New research shows that Lithuania is not the third most alcohol consuming country in the world as the World Health Organization figures claim. […]

Activists start to collect signatures for total ban on alcohol advertising

March 9, 2016 LT Daily 0

Activists who are campaigning for a total ban on alcohol advertising in Lithuania will today get the go-ahead from Lithuania’s Electoral Commission to seek to collect enough signatures to force parliament to consider their proposals on restricting alcohol sales and advertising. […]

Lazdijai municipality first to ban alcohol near schools, at public events

February 29, 2016 LT Daily 0

Lazdijai municipality has banned alcohol marketing at public events and has restricted the sale of alcohol near educational institutions, police stations and hospitals in the municipality. […]

Government endorses further restrictions on alcohol

February 22, 2016 BNS 0

The Lithuanian government endorsed a package of measures aimed at cutting alcohol consumption on Monday. It includes alcohol-free zones, and further restrictions on selling hours and on alcohol advertising. […]

Alcolock system coming to Lithuania

February 2, 2016 LT Daily 0

Alcolock system and rehabilitation program for drunk drivers will soon be introduced in Lithuania. The road traffic safety draft is being prepared by the Communications Ministry together with the Ministry of Interior and the Road and Transport Research Institute specialists. […]

Complicated Sino-Lithuanian relationship

October 1, 2024 0

As the Seimas elections approach, more parties, especially opposition parties, promise to change their foreign policy. The most significant change, in their view, is in relations with China. The opposition believes that seeing China as […]

Economist speaks out about the unstoppable rise in prices: ‘It’s getting a bit scary’

September 24, 2024 0

Prices in Lithuania decreased by 0.5% over the month, but annual inflation is again approaching the 1% mark. The most significant price increases over the year were in cafes and restaurants – nearly 9%. Some […]

Who could have thought? Germans give us a brigade, we give them electricity

September 20, 2024 0

Rokas Masiulis, the Head of the electricity transmission operator Litgrid, was one of the energy experts who, at the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, calmly and even optimistically looked to the future: Lithuania would […]

The EU must stop funding the brutal Cuba regime

September 16, 2024 0

Russia has always been Europe’s enemy. This is something that many of our Western and Central European friends seemed to forget since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Not so in Eastern Europe and the […]

Grybauskaitė effect? Among the candidates for Prime Minister, there is also an option that has not yet been named out loud

September 13, 2024 0

With the parliamentary elections just a month away, party leaders are already working out, in public and behind closed doors, the scenarios for the foundations of the future governing coalition and who will lead the […]

Lithuanians will have to open their wallets even wider: goods and services will become more expensive

August 30, 2024 0

According to TV3.lt, Swedbank economists raise their GDP growth forecast for Lithuania and believe the Lithuanian economy will grow the fastest among the Baltic States this year and next. Inflation will likely rise next year, […]