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Silence may be the key to Lidl’s Lithuania strategy

February 2, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

Everyone has heard that the German retail chain Lidl is to open stores in Lithuania but that is pretty much everything anyone knows about it. Is this absence of fanfare an oversight or a brilliant PR move? […]

President appoints new deputy chief prosecutor

February 1, 2016 BNS 0

Prosecutor Žydrūnas Radišauskas is to be appointed as deputy prosecutor general of Lithuania, the President’s Office said on Monday. […]

Lithuania jumps to 13th in global economic freedom rankings

February 1, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

Lithuania moved up two places to 13th in the latest global economic freedom index published by the Heritage Foundation in conjunction with the Wall Street Journal. […]

Lithuanian and Latvian officers close in on international oil trade group

February 1, 2016 BNS 0

Lithuanian and Latvian law enforcement officers are investigating an organized crime group suspected of illegal trade in oil products. […]

Defendants in the Labour Party case: Marina Liutkevičienė, Vitalija Vonžutaitė, Vytautas Gapšys, Viktor Uspaskich

Court of Appeals to give verdict in Labour Party’s fraud case

February 1, 2016 BNS 0

The Lithuanian Court of Appeals is to hand down a ruling in the Labour Party‘s bookkeeping fraud case on Monday, paving way for the verdict in the case to take effect. […]

Little attention paid to Lithuania in Polish Foreign Affairs priorities, say analysts

February 1, 2016 LT Daily 0

Political analysts have said that the new Polish government paid little attention to Lithuania in its newly presented diplomatic priorities, that were presented by the Polish Foreign Affairs Minister Witold Waszczykowski. […]

Former Vilnius mayor suggests joining forces with Liberal Movement

February 1, 2016 BNS 0

Former Vilnius mayor Artūras Zuokas, leader of the Lithuanian Freedom Union, says his party is planning to approach the Liberal Movement about joining forces in the general elections this October. […]

Investigators probe Lithuania’s biggest retail group for alleged illegal activity

January 29, 2016 BNS 0

Lithuania’s Prosecutor General’s Office and the Financial Crime Investigation Service (FNTT) are conducting a probe into alleged illegal activities by Vilniaus Prekyba, one of Lithuania’s biggest business groups, and its shareholders, including Lithuania’s richest businessman, Nerijus Numavičius. Numavičious assets are worth an estimated €1.3 billion. […]

Panel disussion at the Estonian Chamber of Commerce in Vilnius

Mergers & acquisitions in Lithuania at slow pace in 2015

January 29, 2016 Ludo Segers 0

Global M&A activity grew to record levels in 2015, fuelled by some mega mergers in the pharmaceutical, energy and consumer industries. Lithuania bucked the trend with less consolidation and acquisitions than in the previous year and stood out as the least active in the corporate bond market. The findings on global and regional performance were presented by several industry experts at an event of the Estonian Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday. […]

Cheap ruble upped illegal migration to Lithuania

January 29, 2016 BNS 0

The dropping value of the currencies of Russia and Belarus has forced some migrant workers from these countries to make their way to Lithuania, mostly illegally, the State Border Guard Service says. […]

ORLEN Lithuania bounces back with €217m profit

January 29, 2016 LT Daily 0

Lithuania-based oil refining company Orlen Lietuva generated a net profit of €217 million ($227 million) last year. […]

Opinion: Kaliningrad – Kremlin‘s joker in geopolitical poker game with West

January 29, 2016 Vytautas Kersanskas 0

The Kremlin‘s propaganda rarely shocks anymore and hardly registers as news with most people but some of it deserves attention because when a specific propaganda message is repeated over and over, it is done in an attempt to embed it in our minds as being the uncontestable truth. In the case of Kaliningrad, it has to be feared that the Kremlin‘s efforts are an attempt to incite war between the West and Russia. […]

Put pressure on Moscow, not Kiev, to end war in Ukraine, Lithuanian minister says

January 28, 2016 BNS 0

The international community should not demand that the Ukrainian government grants autonomy to its eastern regions until Russia ensures security in the region, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius argues in an op-ed piece published in the Wall Street Journal. […]

Algimanta Pabedinskienė and Dalia Grybauskaitė

President and minister visit rural social care centre

January 28, 2016 LT Daily 0

President Dalia Grybauskaitė and Social Security Minister Algimanta Pabedinskienė visited Rimėnai village in the Alytus region on Wednesday to learn from the municipality and rural communities how to help disadvantaged families escape from violence, alcohol and poverty. […]

Lithuanian SMEs focussing on investment in domestic markets

January 28, 2016 LT Daily 0

Instead of strengthening their positions abroad or looking for new markets, small and medium sized Lithuanian companies are this year planning to increase investment in expansion in domestic markets, a survey commissioned by SEB Bank shows. […]

Small chance that Zika virus will spread to Lithuania, says expert

January 28, 2016 LT Daily 0

There is only a small chance that the Zika virus could spread to Lithuania with cold weather preventing the mosquitos who carry the virus from living long enough, according to a leading Lithuanian expert, but pregnant women should still not travel to countries with warmer climates where the virus has been detected. […]

No difference between Landsbergis’ nationalism and Putin’s, claims Andriukaitis

January 28, 2016 LT Daily 0

EU Health and Food Safety Commissioner Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis said there was little difference between the nationalist outlook of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Hungarian leader Viktor Orban and Lithuania’s first post-independent leader, Vytautas Landsbergis. […]