Finnish investments generated more jobs in Lithuania than any other foreign investment in 2014. Finland made nearly 30 million euros worth of new direct investments last year, retaining its position from 2013 as the country’s eighth largest foreign investor. The most significant foreign investors in Lithuania were Cyprus, Latvia and Sweden. […]
On Thursday, May 21, in Vilnius, a sculpture entitled Suomis (the Finn) will be unveiled to commemorate 24 years of Finno-Lithuanian co-operation and the common history between the two countries. […]
Responding to a joint declaration of the Nordic countries of intentions to step up military cooperation in the face of Russian aggression, Russia‘s Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Sunday, saying that moves by Finland and Sweden towards closer ties with NATO were of “special concern”, Reuters reports. […]
Lithuania is not far behind Estonia in direct investments from Finland with low wage levels, small taxes and a hungry workforce, Invest Lithuania reports. […]
Troops from nine NATO countries took part in the main planning conference of the Saber Strike 2015 multinational exercises at the General Adolfas Ramanauskas Warfare Training Centre in Nemenčine on February 10-13. […]
Lithuania opened a honorary consulate in Kuopio, a city in eastern Finland. It will be headed by Esa Karvinen, the director general of Savo education consortium, the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry said. […]
Latvia‘s Transport Minister Anrijs Matiss (Unity) has invited Finland to take active part in implementation of the standard-gauge railroad Rail Baltica project and in the work of the Rail Baltica joint venture, noting the project’s importance for the entire Nordic-Baltic region, LETA learned from the Transport Ministry. […]
Every businessperson in his of her life has encountered a situation when they need to upgrade their competence package. However, usually there is no time for proper studies, and the quality of available lectures by individual speakers is often compromised. Lauri Koponen, Head of KTU Executive School says that business breakfast, popular in Scandinavian countries, is a good solution for this problem. […]
On 6 December, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė extended congratulations to President Sauli Niinisto of the Republic of Finland on the occasion of the country’s national holiday – Independence Day, the presidential press service said. […]
European Commission Vice-President of the Digital Single Market Andrus Ansip said on Friday at a conference in Tallinn that Estonia and Finland have to move forward fast with the LNG terminal project, because there is prevailing investment drought in Europe and no one is going to wait until Estonia and Finland finish deliberating different solutions, Aripaev Online reports. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that he welcomes an agreement between Estonia and Finland to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, adding that Lithuania’s LNG terminal in Klaipėda will be able to supply the future-to-be Finnish-Estonian facility with gas. […]
Lithuania’s Defense Minister Juozas Olekas is visiting Norway on Wednesday to meet with his Nordic and Baltic colleagues for a discussion of initiative to step up the Nordic and Baltic anti-crisis capacities. […]
Northern Future Forum (NFF) took place on 6 and 7 November in Helsinki. The Prime Minister of Finland, Alexander Stubb, had invited the prime ministers of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom to discuss educational competitiveness, and promote innovative business activities. […]
Baltic States and Finnish agricultural organizations submitted a repeated appeal for help to the European Commission, LETA/Public Broadcasting reports. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius is leaving for Finland on Thursday to attend the fourth meeting of Baltic, Nordic and British prime ministers. […]
Stratfor analyst Eugene Chausovsky reflects on the Baltic states’ recent announcement of a joint venture company for Rail Baltica and examines the project’s regional context and implications. […]
Ahlstrom, a high performance fiber-based materials company, inaugurated its Service Centre in Vilnius, Lithuania. […]
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