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Foreign adoptions of Lithuanian children almost as frequent as local adoptions

March 15, 2016 BNS 0

Lithuanian citizens adopted 99 children last year and foreigners adopted 62, figures from the State Child Rights Protection and Adoption Service show. […]

Norway Hague Convention approval to allow children to return to Lithuania for care

March 8, 2016 LT Daily 0

Norway has ratified the Hague Convention on the protection of children and on cooperation on international adoptions, and this will directly affect Lithuanian families bringing up their children in Norway. […]

Teachers’ strike could affect students’ performance, child rights ombudswoman says

February 26, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

Child rights ombudswoman Edita Žiobienė says that the ongoing teachers‘ strike could have negative effects on their students’ performance. […]

PM sceptical about setting up new institutions in wake of Saviečiai double homicide

January 5, 2016 ELTA EN 0

After a tragedy in Kėdainiai District when a father killed his two children by throwing them into a well, the government will consider giving more power to the State Child Rights Protection and Adoption Service, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius told LRT radio. […]

Lithuanian parliament adopts amendments to prevent sexual offences against children

October 23, 2015 ELTA EN 0

At its plenary sitting, the Seimas of Lithuania has adopted the amendments to the Law on Fundamentals of Protection of the Rights of the Child, aimed at preventing sexual offences against children. […]

Lithuanian MP proposes to legislate children’s duties

May 6, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Lithuanian Member of Parliament Aurelija Stancikienė, of the Way of Courage group, has registered amendments to the Law on Fundamentals of Protection of the Rights of the Child. She has proposed to supplement the law with provisions on duties of the child. […]

MEP calls for international search of Lithuanian boy taken from family by Norway’s child services

March 12, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Member of the European Parliament Valentinas Mazuronis has addressed the Lithuanian minister of the interior, requesting to find a Lithuanian child who was taken away from his mother in Norway. […]

Group of MPs want Lithuanian government to pick a fight with Norway over children’s welfare

February 18, 2015 DELFI EN 0

A group of Lithuanian legislators, mostly conservatives, want the government to pick a fight with Norway over kids taken from Lithuanian immigrant families by Norwegian child services. […]

Norway’s ambassador to Lithuania speaks out on child custody controversy involving Norwegian child services

February 11, 2015 BNS 0

Norway‘s Ambassador to Lithuania Dag Malmer Halvorsen says that children are rarely taken from their Lithuanian families in Norway. […]

Videos are already being made to lure Africans to Lithuania

July 23, 2024 0

The number of foreigners working in Lithuania is increasing. Videos have even been produced inviting Africans to work in Lithuania. Job search websites are full of job offers for foreigners that would put many Lithuanians […]

Bank of Lithuania: we are witnessing a turning point

July 8, 2024 0

Lithuanians are the least likely to feel inflationary pressures and interest rate increases and the most confident that salaries will rise in the coming years, according to a survey initiated by Citadele Bank in the […]

Citus Experts: The Housing market hasn’t gone on summer vacation yet. The most active half-year in two years and improving affordability

July 8, 2024 0

Based on the preliminary data of analysts of Citus, a creative real estate projects’ development and placemaking company, 222 transactions were carried out in the primary housing market of Vilnius in June and 668 in […]

Citus experts: 10,000 people are waiting for the Euribor rate to decrease. Housing market scenarios

June 28, 2024 0

At the beginning of June, the European Central Bank announced a 25-basis point (0.25%) reduction in the Euribor base rate. Analysts at the creative real estate projects’ development and placemaking company Citus calculate that housing […]

Neither Blinkevičiūtė nor Karbauskis wants to become Prime Ministers: they explained why

June 28, 2024 0

They want to win the parliamentary elections but do not want to become Prime Ministers. Both Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, the Chairwoman of the Social Democrats, and Ramūnas Karbauskis, the leader of the Peasants, do not answer […]

Citus presents the project Ežero Takais by CITUS – construction and sales are commencing in a small-scale and cosy development in an attractive location in Vilnius

June 5, 2024 0

In the first days of June in Vilnius, Sidaronių Street, beside one of the largest Buivydiškės ponds, creative real estate projects’ development and placemaking company Citus is starting project Ežero Takais by CITUS. The sales […]