Norway

Lithuania continues to rise in the consciousness of Scandinavians and Western Europeans as a proffered destination for elective dental health treatments. Vilnius dental clinic Odontika, the Baltic’s leading dental clinic for patients from abroad, has been active in promoting Lithuania to the Scandin...

Last year, a total of 3.8 million passengers used the services of Lithuania's three airports in Vilnius, Kaunas and Palanga, or 9.1 percent more than in 2013.

In November, the Russian K-550 nuclear ballistic submarine Alexander Nevsky, submerged in the Barents Sea between Russia and the North Pole, successfully launched a missile that travelled its prescribed course to Kamchatka in Russia’s far east. The Alexander Nevsky thus joins two other Russian nucle...

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.

Additional NATO forces sent to the Baltic states earlier this year will remain in 2015 but the implementation of new security measures might take longer than initially expected, diplomats say.

While sports stars often make it into media's fashion pages, it is much rarer to read their outfit choices as statements on anything more than personal style. One therefore could wonder whether Norwegian chess master and world champion Magnus Carlsen is making a point by sporting an iconic Lithuania...

NATO's new Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will Friday meet with top officials of Lithuania in Vilnius to discuss regional security. Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on the eve of the meeting that the visit indicates NATO's understanding the Baltic states are faced with.

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.

Northern Future Forum (NFF) took place on 6 and 7 November in Helsinki. The Prime Minister of Finland, Alexander Stubb, had invited the prime ministers of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom to discuss educational competitiveness, and promote ...

Norway is the most prosperous country, according to the 2014 Legatum Prosperity Index, published on Monday by the British research centre Legatum Institute, while Lithuania is number 42 among 142 ranked nations.

The Norwegian government does not intend to influence decisions by the state-controlled energy group Statoil on the price of liquefied natural gas (LNG) sold to Lithuania even if Russia's Gazprom further cut its gas price to make imports through the Klaipėda LNG terminal unprofitable, Norway's minis...

Using Norway's experience as inspiration, Lithuania will establish halfway houses in four locations for prison inmates who are about to complete their sentences.

On Wednesday, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius welcomed Dag Malmer Halvorsen, ambassador of the Kingdom of Norway, in Vilnius.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with the heads of 18 major Norwegian business companies and investment funds to discuss the investment climate and business opportunities in Lithuania, the presidential press service said.

In 2013, international net migration remained negative in Lithuania as the number of emigrants exceeded that of immigrants by 16,800.

The Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group One, SNMCMG1, including the Lithuanian Minelayer LNS JOTVINGIS and led by a Lithuanian officer, paid a port visit to Stavanger, Norway, over the last weekend.

What do foreigners who have ever stayed, lived or are currently living in Lithuania think about the country and its people? And how are Lithuanians perceived by those who have never been to Lithuania?

Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius, who paid a visit to Oslo on Tuesday, noted successful cooperation between Norway and Lithuania in the energy sector and discussed regional security and NATO issues as well as support to Ukraine.

Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves said on Tuesday during a state visit in Norway that Estonia wants permanent NATO bases on its territory.