Lithuania has this year joined the other Baltic countries in adopting the euro. Entering the common European currency can give the country’s economy an additional boost, with more foreign investment on the cards, especially from Sweden, Invest Lithuania said. […]
A visit of the Swedish royal family is planned in Lithuania in the coming autumn. According to Jovita Neliupšienė, chief adviser to Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on foreign policy issues, visits of the Icelandic and Baltic presidents are also planned this year. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
AB ITAB Novena, a Swedish producer of equipment for shops, will build a new 10,000-square-metre factory close to its current plant in Kaunas. Construction of the new facility, which will receive LTL 10 million (EUR 2.9 million) of investment, will begin next summer, Invest Lithuania said. […]
Poland‘s Minister of Defence Tomasz Siemoniak says that there has been “unprecedented” activity by Russia‘s navy and air force in the Baltic Sea region in recent days, AP reports. […]
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. […]
After the mysterious hunt for a submarine off the coasts of Sweden, a Portuguese Air Force reconnaissance airplane Lockheed P-3C CUP was sent to Lithuania in late October to observe the Baltic Sea. […]
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. […]
On 20 November in Vilnius, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius met with Speaker of the Swedish Parliament (Riksdag) Urban Ahlin and discussed bilateral and international policy issues, the ministry reports. […]
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. […]
On 17 November, the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) organized the discussion “The Dynamics of Defence Cooperation: Possibilities and Limits in a Changing Europe”, which brought international expert perspectives on the possibilities and limits of Swedish defence cooperation. […]
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. […]
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