Defence
Public spending
Economy
Lithuania’s prison wardens in for salary raise
Lithuania’s Justice Minister Juozas Bernatonis has promised that salaries for the lowest-paid prison wardens will increase in 2015. […]
Defence
Grybauskaitė pledges to monitor defence spending closely
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has pledged to monitor whether additional funds recently allocated to national defence are spent transparently and effectively. […]
European Union
Latvia falls behind Lithuania and Estonia in terms of EU funds use
The Baltic States are some of the most successful member states in terms of the use of finances allocated by European Funds. However, Latvia is somewhat behind Lithuania and Estonia in this regard, according to a survey by KPMG on the use of finances allocated by EU structural funds in 2013 in Central and Eastern European region. […]
Economy
Lithuanian Social Insurance Fund budget deficit narrows
According to preliminary data, in the first half of 2014 the budget deficit of the State Social Insurance Fund Board (SoDra) decreased by more than a third of a billion litas. […]
Politics
Lithuania to cut public administration spending by 5 percent
The Lithuanian public sector next year will have to reduce its spending by 5 percent, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said on Wednesday. […]