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How Norway would have dealt with Kėdainiai tragedy

January 19, 2016 LT Daily 0

With the tragedy in Kėdainiai district, some Lithuanians are now asking how the Norwegian child welfare service, Barnevernet, would have responded to such an incident and what Lithuania could learn from Norway’s approach. […]

International drug trafficking ring busted by Lithuanian, Norwegian police

January 18, 2016 LT Daily 0

Lithuanian and Norwegian officers have busted an international drug ring operating in both countries. […]

Lithuania hopes for cheaper gas deal with Statoil, PM says

January 4, 2016 LT Daily 0

Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius expects that Norway‘s gas company Statoil will lower the price Lithuania is paying for liquefied natural gas (LNG). After Litgas, Lithuania’s state-owned gas company, concludes negotiations with Statoil, consumers can expect price drops, he said on Monday. […]

Over 100,000 emigrants have returned to Lithuania over the past decade

December 18, 2015 ELTA EN 0

On International Migrants Day (18 December), Statistics Lithuania announced that, over the last decade, 126,000 new residents immigrated into Lithuania while 438,500 emigrated. From 2005 to 2014, the percentage of emigrants of ages 20-39 grew from 51.9 to 59.2 percent. In 2014, as many as 82 percent of working-age people had not worked for a year or longer before leaving the country. […]

Lithuanian defence policy director: We have created a security club

December 1, 2015 www.lrt.lt 0

Defence Minister Juozas Olekas has signed an agreement in London, establishing the Joint Expeditionary Force. Defence Policy Director at the Ministry of National Defence Vaidotas Urbelis says that the seven states that signed the agreement share a similar view on security and will be able to decide how to react to conflicts on their own. […]

Klaipėdos Nafta looks to secure EUR 300 million loan

August 31, 2015 BNS 0

Klaipėdos Nafta (Klaipėda Oil), Lithuania’s state-run company managing oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals, has issued a call for tenders to secure a loan of up to EUR 300 million. The money would be partly used to pay for the rent of the LNG storage vessel. […]

Hoegh LNG refuses to sell LNG vessel to Lithuania ahead of time

August 4, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuania plans to purchase the Klaipėda LNG terminal’s floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) in ten years, and not now, since the vessel’s owner, Norway’s Hoegh LNG, refuses to sell the ship before the term established in the contract. […]

Dagens Industri: “Lithuania is a tiger in the European zoo”

July 23, 2015 Invest Lithuania 0

Lithuania is a tiger in the European zoo. The future looks bright for a country that chose a totally different path from Greece. Investors and entrepreneurs take note! […]

Lithuanian government considers options to cut LNG terminal’s costs

July 3, 2015 BNS 0

The Lithuanian government is considering several options to reduce the costs of maintenance of the Klaipėda liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said on Friday. […]

Litgas and Statoil prepare joint venture to enter Baltic Sea small scale LNG market

July 3, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Natural gas supply and trading company Litgas, part of Lithuania’s state owned energy holding Lietuvos Energija, and Norway‘s Statoil, a leading global energy company in oil and gas production, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Thursday in Vilnius regarding establishment of a joint venture company in Lithuania to develop small scale LNG bunkering services, Litgas reports. […]

Opinion: An-2 secrets better left untold?

June 30, 2015 Ramunas Bogdanas 0

One month after a small Lithuanian aircraft, An-2, crashed into the Baltic Sea on 16 May, the public still knows very little about what happened and why. If officials in charge of the investigation know more, they keep it to themselves. […]

Nordic, Baltic and Poland are Europe’s new front-line states, security report says

June 26, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Europe’s new front-line states are the Nordic countries, Baltic countries, plus Poland, which share a common concern about a “revisionist and rapidly-rearming Russia”, according to the Baltic Sea Security Report by the Centre for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). […]

Lithuania talks with Statoil to make LNG terminal more flexible, energy minister says

June 25, 2015 BNS 0

Energy Minister Rokas Masiulis has not denied that Lithuania is in talks with Norway‘s Statoil on a more flexible schedule of liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports, saying that various operating modes at Klaipėda LNG terminal and its possibilities are currently being tried out and that the ministry has asked companies related to the LNG facility to prepare for various possible scenarios. […]

Lithuanian defence minister invites Norway to send back-up for Baltic air policing mission

June 23, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas met with is Norwegian counterpart Ine Eriksen Soereide and invited Norway to deploy a back-up contingent for the Baltic air policing mission in Lithuania in 2016. […]

SAS to launch new Oslo-Vilnius route in autumn

June 2, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

On 29 October, Scandinavian airlines SAS launches a new Oslo – Vilnius route. SAS passengers will be offered four weekly flights on this route, Vilnius Airport said. […]

Lithuanian soldiers train in international exercise in Norway

May 15, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Since 5 May, a group of staff officers from the Joint Staff of the Lithuanian Armed Forces is taking part in a command post exercise (CPX) Trident Jaguar 2015 of the UK-led Headquarters Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARCC) in composition of the Danish Division in Norway, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence reports. […]