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Energy

Hydroelectric power plants prevent electricity price hike in Lithuania

In the first week of January the average electricity price in Nord Pool Spot power market Lithuanian trading zone went up and reached EUR 43.45 per megawatt hour, electricity transmission system operator Litgrid announced. […]

NordBalt cable laying ships
Energy

Lithuania’s power interconnections with Poland and Sweden to be launched within year

The construction of high voltage interconnections LitPol Link and NordBalt to connect Lithuania with Poland and Sweden is moving ahead: two thirds of NordBalt and half of LitPol Link works have been completed since last spring. LitPol Link and NordBalt will be put into operation after twelve months, at the end of 2015, Lithuanian electricity transmission system operator Litgrid said in a statement. […]

Conference in Karlshamn. Courtesy of the Lithuanian Embassy in Sweden

Lithuanian transport policy presented at conference in Sweden

Ambassador of Lithuania in Sweden Eitvydas Bajarūnas participated in the conference “The Baltic trade and transport”, held on 4-5 November in Karlshamn, south-eastern Sweden. […]

Stockholm
Opinion

Opinion: Under-water incursions in Swedish waters and changing landscape of Baltic Sea security

In October, the Swedish Navy, after several years of calm, once again mounted an operation to identify and avert under-water intruders operating in Swedish territorial waters. Media speculated wildly about the reasons why anyone (read Russia) should have a reason to conduct an operation in the Stockholm archipelago; war preparations, infiltrating agents, discourage Sweden joining NATO and several other possible motives were put forward. […]

President Dalia Grybauskaitė at the Swedish Business Awards 2014
Economy

Business ethics from the East bring corruption to Lithuania – Grybauskaitė

In her opening speech at the Swedish Business Awards ceremony today, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said that socially sensitive Nordic business ethics have created counterbalance in Lithuania to the corrupt business methods which came from the East. […]

Discussion at Lithuanian Embassy in Stockholm
Global LT

Lithuanian embassy in Stockholm holds discussion about historical memory

On 13 November, the Embassy of Lithuania in Stockholm in cooperation with the Swedish Lithuanian youth community and Ukrainian student representatives organized a discussion about historical memory. The focus of the event was to discuss the importance of historical memory, commemorate the victims of totalitarian regimes and to draw attention to current political developments in eastern Ukraine. […]

Juozas Olekas
Uncategorized

Baltic and Nordic defence ministers discuss joint capacities

Lithuania’s Defense Minister Juozas Olekas is visiting Norway on Wednesday to meet with his Nordic and Baltic colleagues for a discussion of initiative to step up the Nordic and Baltic anti-crisis capacities. […]