Lithuania

Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabrielius Landsbergis does not rule out that China stopped issuing visas to Lithuanian citizens in retaliation for a parliamentary delegation visiting Taiwan.

A company managed by the scandal-rocked BaltCap private equity fund is pulling out of the project aimed to build a school in Ukraine, the Verslo žinios business news website reports.

Lithuanians are increasingly more confident about the national armed forces and military career, the number of citizens pro the universal conscription is also going up, while the support to Lithuania’s NATO membership and Ukraine’s membership prospects is especially high, the Ministry of National De...

Four foreign nationals were turned away after trying to access Lithuania unlawfully from Belarus over the past day, the State Border Guard Service (VSAT) reports.

On 29 January-4 February, compared with the previous week, the wholesale price of electricity in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia fell by 21% and stood at EUR 64.4/MWh on average.

President Gitanas Nausėda on Tuesday opened the Infobalt association’s international event "AIcebreakers: Vision for Lithuania", the president's office reports.

Самая большая средняя зарплата в декабре 2023 года в Литве составила больше 100 000 евро, а больше 10 000 евро "на бумаге" в среднем своим работникам выплатили около 100 компаний, таковы данные Фонда социального страхования ("Содры"). В первую пятерку вошли компании, занимающиеся рекламой, производс...

On Monday, 5 February, Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė attended the opening ceremony of the military base in Rokantiškės, just east of Vilnius. In her welcoming speech, she highlighted the substantial investments, nearly half a billion euros, made in the past few years for the infrastructure, stated...

The unemployment rate stood at 7.4% in Lithuania in the fourth quarter of 2023, up by 1.2% from the quarter before, reports the State Data Agency (Statistics Lithuania), citing the data of the Labour Force Survey.

Minister of the Economy and Innovation Aušrinė Armonaitė says she would like to see SpaceX expanding in Lithuania after she has recently met with Brett Johnsen, one of the executives of the US giant.

January is known for its vegan trend, or Veganuary, when people do not eat meat and animal products during this month. The organizers of Veganuary claim that it helps to save water and forests as well as decrease carbon emissions. Is Veganuary popular in Lithuania and what are its benefits? Austeja ...

According to the data of 1 January 2024, there were 142,954 economic entities operating in Lithuania, which accounted for 60.4 percent of all economic entities registered in the Register of Legal Entities, said the State Data Agency.

As of 1 January 2024, the resident population of Lithuania totalled 2 million 886.5 thousand, which is by 29 thousand (1 percent) more than a year ago, reports the State Data Agency.

The State Security Department (VSD) has examined the ties of Aivaras Stumbras, the son-in-law and business partner of former president Rolandas Paksas, which may pose a threat to national security. According to investigative journalists from the public broadcaster LRT, Stumbras’ business projects ha...

Colliers Baltic, a real estate services company, has announced it is establishing a project management business in Lithuania. The new company will be led by Germantas Kavaliauskas.

Coalition lawmakers may call an extraordinary session of the Seimas in February. Parliament is in recess from 24 December 2023 until 10 March 2024.

In 2022, Thermo Fisher Scientific Baltics, Vilniaus prekyba and SEB were among the top profit earning companies that paid out the highest dividends, reports business news website vz.lt (Verslo žinios).

В 2005 году Генеральная Ассамблея ООН провозгласила 27 января, день освобождения Освенцима, Международным днем памяти жертв Холокоста. В Литве День геноцида литовских евреев отмечается также 23 сентября — в день, когда в 1943 году началась депортация евреев из ликвидированного Вильнюсского гетто.

On Wednesday, Minister of Agriculture Kęstutis Navickas and Minister of Environment Simonas Gentvilas spoke to farmers who were holding a three-day protest in Vilnius and arrived at the capital with their tractors a day earlier.

Swedbank has reported a net profit of EUR 361 million in Lithuania last year, which is 152% more than in 2022. The rise in the profit is due to significant growth in the corporate loan portfolio, high private client activity, the European Central Bank’s monetary policy and other reasons, the bank sa...