Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė claims that Lithuania seeks to be independent of Russian gas. Russian gas company Gazprom puts lot of pressure on Lithuania forcing it to sign long-term contracts, while gas price is based on politics but not on the market price, informs The …
BNS Increasing numbers of emigrants return to Lithuania every year, however, the lower flow of emigration is still a few times higher than the returning numbers, shows statistics published on Friday. According to data published by the Statistics Department, 17,300 Lithuanian citizens returned to their …
Swedish privately owned media group Bonnier that is parent company of Äripäev and owns film distributor SF Bio and Ratos, owner if film distributor Finnkino, has agreed to merge their cineme distribution operations and form the Nordic region’s largest cinema group, announced the companies, reports …
Under a special program financed by donor countries, Lithuanian non-governmental organizations intend to settle deep-rooted human rights problems. “This is our first experience and we truly hope that it, although not very it and amounting to about 18 million litas (EUR 5.2 mln), will become …
The newly-released Human Development Index ranks Lithuania in the 41st position out ot 186 nations around the world. Estonia was placed in the 33rd spot whilst Latvia ranked last in the Baltic regional context at the 44th place. The top position was occupied by Norway …
The economic and population differences of the three Baltic countries are behind the statistics that show highest wages for Lithuanian managers but lowest wages for Lithuanian staff, a study by Hay Group human resources consultancy says, according to a report by news2biz LITHUANIA and cited …
In a meeting with the Ambassadors of the three Baltic States on March 11 in the Hague Defence Minister of the Netherlands Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert made a formal notification of the decision of the Netherlands to ensure security of Lithuania’s, Latvia’s and Estonia’s airspace by contributing …
Oslo-listed Kitron electronic manufacturing service group’s Lithuanian manufacturing unit secured two new contracts, reports news2biz LITHUANIA cited by bbn.ee. The two contracts come from telecom and agriculture sectors. The NOK 100m, three year contract comes from Stockholm-listed HMS Industrial Network, a leading global supplier within …
Nerijus Udrenas, chief economic adviser to Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite, is surprised at protests against the exploration of shale gas in Lithuania and believes that part of people are being deliberately misled. “We might come to a conclusion that part of ordinary people are misled …
President Dalia Grybauskaite says discussions on gay partnerships in Lithuania are very premature but she refrained from expressing her position on the issue. “I think these discussions in Lithuania are very premature and are only starting. I think it’s worth holding discussions on any issue …
In terms of household penetration, the dominant fiber nation remains Lithuania, which already has 100 percent coverage of FTTH and over 31 percent of homes connected to fiber. Sweden takes second place in the European FTTH Ranking, with 22.6 percent of homes having FTTH subscriptions. In …
On 20 February in Gdansk, Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius participated in the first Foreign Ministers’ Meeting of the Nordic Baltic Eight (NB8) and the Visegrad Group, and stressed the importance of regional cooperation of member states of the European Union, informs urm.lt. “Nordic, …
Egidijus Vareikis | The Lithuania Tribune The recent visit of Ukrainian President Vladimir Yanukovich to Vilnius once more raise the eternal question of Ukraine’s destiny; of where the country is going, to the west or to the east of somewhere else? Ukrainian politicians want to …
Hakon Invest continues its upsurge business trajectory with the expansion of the ICA’s stores and food chain network in 2013. After establishing a strategic plan during the autumn of last year, the tactical step of the firm to engage in a frank expansion of its …
A report published by Belarus on Monday has nothing to do with the analysis or evaluation of the human rights situation in the world, Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Monday. In a statement sent to BNS, the ministry underlined that “the document designed …
Forbes Magazine has ranked world’s top 25 countries to do business in, and ranked Estonia 22nd, right behind Germany, reported bbn.ee. The authors ranked countries at criteria such as innovation, taxation, technology, corruption, personal and trade freedoms, investor protection, stock exchange, etc. The list was …
Cameron’s speech that shook Great Britain and Europe didn’t go unnoticed in Lithuania, writes Former Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius for Delfi.lt. The most common Lithuanian reaction is a cheerful approval, especially to the part of the speech that criticizes Brussels’s sluggish bureaucracy, excessive regulations in Europe, the …
On January 23, Juozas Olekas, Minister of National Defence met with Ambassador of Norway in Lithuania Leif Arne Ulland and addressed issues of international security, regional Nordic-Baltic and bilateral cooperation in defence area, reported kam.lt. The meeting Ministers underscored the importance of the Nordic-Baltic cooperation …
MEP Leonidas Donskis has joined an interparliamentary group, members of which maintain they seek justice for lawyer Sergey Magnitsky who died in a Russian prison in 2009 after revealing a financial fraud scheme of Russian authorities. Donskis, the first Lithuanian representative in the group, told …
One of the best-known entrepreneurs in the Lithuanian city of Kaunas, Director General of the company “Skubios siuntos” (“Rapid Shipments”) Vladas Lasas has been awarded the international Business Peace Prize, the Municipality of Kaunas announced. This award is dedicated to people who are successful in …
