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Seimas' acting commission for scrutiny of the national broadcaster's (LRT) operations holds if first meeting

Seimas panel wants external audit of national broadcaster’s finances

January 25, 2018 BNS 0

The Lithuanian parliament’s acting commission for scrutiny of the national broadcaster‘s operations decided at its first meeting on Thursday to turn to 14 institutions for information about LRT, asking the government to earmark money and call a tender for LRT’s external audit. […]

Ramūnas Karbauskis at the Press Conference on the LRT

Conservative MPs accuse ruling Farmer’s leader of hindering LRT probe

January 23, 2018 BNS 0

Conservative members of a commission set up by the Lithuanian parliament to scrutinize the activities of the public broadcaster Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT) say that Ramūnas Karbauskis, chairman of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), is hindering the probe. […]

Lithuanian prime minister says blacklist vice-ministers will not be reinstated

July 8, 2014 BNS 0

Suspicious vice-ministers will not work in the renewed government, Lithuania’s Social Democratic Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says. […]

Ericsson: Lithuania’s chance for a great digital leap forward

May 29, 2020 0

After imposing the quarantine, all countries, including Lithuania, witnessed drastic changes in data consumption habits. Most mobile network operators noticed people having more and longer calls, with up to 100% increase in voice services. The […]

Lithuanian startups were not intimidated by the crisis

May 28, 2020 0

The COVID-19 pandemic paralyzed a significant number of businesses, but startups make the most of this situation: Lithuanian start-up developers say that responding in a timely manner to customer orders is a major challenge for […]

Are we going to vote in the Parliamentary elections as in the 21c?

May 25, 2020 0

Democratic elections usually fulfil two conditions. They have to be free and fair. The upcoming parliamentary elections are going to have one distinctiveness. They will be post-pandemic under one condition, that at the time of […]

Campain “Savi už savus”: invites to cope with the consequences of the lockdown together

May 19, 2020 0

In order to reduce the consequences of the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus in Lithuania, the Lithuanian brewery Gubernija is launching a national movement “Savi už savus” (“Locals for Locals”) to support small and […]

Tax burden influences economic state aid

May 15, 2020 0

Nordic-Baltic business law house Fondia prepared an analysis of government aid for business and individuals in several countries. It turned out that state aid for economy correlates directly with the tax burden, calculated as a […]

Why Lithuania should not ratify the EU-Cuba cooperation agreement?

May 15, 2020 0

We discussed this issue with the like-minded earlier, even before the pandemic, which seems to have frozen all other political topics for a while. However, the problem still remains unsolved and, therefore, today, in the […]