Energy
Third commercial LNG shipment on its way to Lithuania
The third commercial shipment of liquefied natural gas (LNG) will be delivered to the Lithuanian LNG terminal, the first such facility in the Baltic countries, this week. […]
Norway
Society
Lithuania won’t hand back child taken away from Norwegian foster carers, police say
A Lithuanian child taken away from his foster carers in Norway and secretly driven to Lithuania and his mother will not be handed over to Norway, a spokesman for the Police Department said. […]
Uncategorized
Moscow says it is concerned over Finland and Sweden moving closer to NATO
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. […]
Defence
Norway and Italy to take over Baltic air policing mission in Lithuania
Norway will take over the NATO air policing mission in the Baltic states in May, while the Italian contingent will stay in Šiauliai, Lithuania, for the second shift to reinforce the mission. […]
Politics
MEP calls for international search of Lithuanian boy taken from family by Norway’s child services
Member of the European Parliament Valentinas Mazuronis has addressed the Lithuanian minister of the interior, requesting to find a Lithuanian child who was taken away from his mother in Norway. […]
Foreign affairs
Arvid Bryne, Norwegian journalist who helped organize first Lithuanian delegation to the West
Arvid Bryne is a well-known Norwegian journalist and author and one of the best friends Lithuania has in Norway. A quarter of a century ago, he was among those who witnessed first-hand the challenges that Lithuania went through to build an independent and democratic state; moreover, he lent a hand in dealing with some of them. […]
Economy
Business trips expected to boost Lithuania’s tourism industry
The number of holiday-makers choosing Lithuania as their destination is falling, yet, there are increasingly more and more business tourists in the country, which allows expecting a modest growth in the sector in the upcoming 6 months, a Tourism Confidence Index compiled by the Confederation of Lithuanian Industrialists shows. […]
Politics
Society
Norway’s ambassador to Lithuania speaks out on child custody controversy involving Norwegian child services
Norway‘s Ambassador to Lithuania Dag Malmer Halvorsen says that children are rarely taken from their Lithuanian families in Norway. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian foreig minister and Norwegian ambassador discuss children’s rights protection
On 6 February, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius and Dag Malmer Halvorsen, Ambassador of Norway to Lithuania, discussed the protection of the rights of Lithuanian citizens in Norway and possible cooperation of the two countries on children’s rights protection. […]
Society
Polish investigator who kidnaps Lithuanian children from Norway’s child services: We did things we cannot talk about
It is a public secret what Krzysztof Rutkowski, a Polish private investigator, does for a living. He is helping people who have had their parental rights restricted by Norway‘s child welfare services to get their children back. Rutkowski tells DELFI that he has worked with families from Lithuania, too. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian diplomats ask Norwegian authorities to allow to see child that was taken from mother
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway has promised Lithuanian Ambassador in Oslo Izolda Bričkovskienė to put every effort to officially confirm that a seven-year-old Lithuanian boy who was returned from Sweden is indeed in Norway. The boy’s mother attempted to take her son out of Norway, where the two lived. Swedish diplomats have said that Lithuania was not informed about the return of the child because his place of residence has not been declared in Lithuania. […]
Economy
Norway’s insurer Gjensidige to buy PZU Lithuania
Norwegian insurance company Gjensidige Forsikring ASA agreed to acquire 99.88 percent of the shares in PZU Lietuva from PZU SA for EUR 54 million. The Group’s market share in the Baltics will increase from 7 percent to 13 percent. The market share in Lithuania will increase from 7 percent to 21 percent, Gjensidige said in a press release. […]
Economy
Lithuania promotes itself as dental tourism destination in Scandinavia
Lithuania continues to rise in the consciousness of Scandinavians and Western Europeans as a proffered destination for elective dental health treatments. Vilnius dental clinic Odontika, the Baltic’s leading dental clinic for patients from abroad, has been active in promoting Lithuania to the Scandinavian market this winter. […]
Economy
Most popular flight destinations from Lithuania in 2014 – UK, Germany and Norway
Last year, a total of 3.8 million passengers used the services of Lithuania’s three airports in Vilnius, Kaunas and Palanga, or 9.1 percent more than in 2013. […]
Newsweek: Putin makes his first move in race to control the Arctic
In November, the Russian K-550 nuclear ballistic submarine Alexander Nevsky, submerged in the Barents Sea between Russia and the North Pole, successfully launched a missile that travelled its prescribed course to Kamchatka in Russia’s far east. The Alexander Nevsky thus joins two other Russian nuclear submarines, which have, in the course of the autumn, conducted successful ballistic missile tests. […]
Economy
Record number of foreign companies established in Lithuania in 2014
2014 proved to be a record year for Invest Lithuania, the nation’s foreign investment development agency, with 29 foreign companies deciding to establish or develop their businesses in Lithuania. Altogether almost 2,000 new jobs are planned over the next three years. […]
Economy
Forum Business Magazine: Building a back office in the Baltics
Moving operations to low-salary Baltic countries became popular in the 1990s. Now, translocation has changed in nature: it focuses more on services than on production. The data here speaks for itself. […]