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Lithuania’s alcohol consumption down to 13.2 liters in 2016 – statistics office

May 30, 2017 BNS 0

Lithuania’s legal alcohol consumption per person aged 15 years and over last year amounted to 13.2 liters, down by 0.8 liters from 14 liters in 2015, according to preliminary figures from the country’s statistics office. […]

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, […]