CORPORATE

Tackling Lithuania’s productivity problem

Productivity in Lithuania compared to Western European economies remains abysmally low. One of the ways to approach the problem could be by looking into ways to extend the population’s life expectancy, say international experts. […]

Refugees
CORPORATE

What is happening with Lithuania’s refugee relocation programme?

Lithuania has promised to accept more than 1,000 refugees over the next two years but has barely received a handful of asylum seekers. Though it is not believed that they will start arriving by the hundred this year, the number of those interested in coming to Lithuania is increasing. […]

Pietro Parolin
Foreign affairs

‘Fear is the worst counsellor’ – Vatican official on refugees

Refugees were the focus of Monday’s meeting between Lithuania‘s President Dalia Grybauskaitė and Vatican‘s Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin. […]

Author Rita Gabis was born to a Lithuanian Catholic mother, and a Jewish father. (Photo Rina Castelnuovo, The Times of Israel)
Global LT

The realization your grandfather may have murdered thousands of Jews

“There is always someone in a family who pushes against silence,” says Rita Gabis, in whose new book Lithuania’s Holocaust skeletons come to light, exploring the 220,000 Lithuanian Jews killed during WWII — and the people who let it happen. […]