Lithuania’s second republic turns twenty (0)
3/11/10 •
Last year Lithuania celebrated one thousand years since it was mentioned for the first time. Today it celebrates its twentieth birthday. During the past thousand years Lithuania managed to create its statehood in medieval times, then lose it again and again. Throughout the thousand years it was a struggle to keep it going, to keep [...]
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Lithuanian economy recovering faster than EU (0)
3/09/10 •
Lithuania’s gross domestic product grew 0.5 percent in the fourth quarter compared to the third in 2009, a larger growth than the EU average of 0.1 percent growth, the EU statistics agency Eurostat reported. The yearly result for Lithuania, however, shows a steep decline of GDP of 13.2 percent.
The annual GDP in the EU fell [...]
Opposition showed some signs of strength (0)
3/09/10 •
Three biggest opposition parties on 9 March presented to the public a long waited alternative government programme. The programme went public after the President Dalia Grybauskaite expressed her doubts about the ruling coalition; at least this is what the opposition leaders heard. The opposition has also announced that ‘another large’ political faction is planning to [...]
Great news from Davis Cup and Fitch for Lithuania (0)
3/08/10 •
Lithuania began this week with great news. Lithuanian National Tennis team achieved a historical victory against the Brits in the Davis Cup tournament. Another news is that the rating agency Fitch raised Lithuania’s borrowing ratings from negative to stable.
‘It is kind of magic’ said Lithuania’s National Tennis team captain Remigijus Balžekas, after his team achieved [...]
IBM is planning to establish a research department in Lithuania (0)
3/07/10 •
After the UK’s Barclays Bank Technology Centre officially started its operations in Vilnius on 5 March Lithuania’s Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius on 6 March announced that another giant corporation is eyeing to settle in Lithuania.
MP Kubilius stated that the USA’s IT cooperation IBM is looking into establishing a research and development department in Lithuania. The [...]
Swedish Minister for the EU will take part in the Baltic Pride in Vilnius (0)
3/04/10 •
Sweden’s Minister for European Union Affairs Birgitta Ohlsson is planning to participate in the Baltic Pride parade in Vilnius on May 8. The Minister announced this to the journalists during her visit to Vilnius on 4 March. The Minister also stated that she will also participate in the 11 March celebrations in Vilnius. The newly [...]
Vytautas Landsbergis. The Baltic Sea Will also be “Mistralised” (0)
3/04/10 •
It‘s already some time, when Russia, while seeing the conformism of the French government, is putting pressure on it [the French government] in order to make it to sell even four aircraft-carriers, able to convey, aside the helicopters, one or two battalions of soldiers, 40 tanks each. Do we have in our possession at least [...]
“Learning To Live With Neighbours” a view from Latvia (0)
3/03/10 •
A Latvian daily Neatkariga published an article suggesting that it might have been in the interest of the EU to push the Baltic countries into a deeper dependency on the Russian energy recourses in order to reduce their capacity of having an independent foreign policy. Juris Paiders published the article on 1 March.
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