Sweden

Conventional wisdom says that the more time you spend at work, the more you accomplish but that has been challenged recently by psychologists and new initiatives in Sweden where employees are trialling six-hour working days. Could this also work in Lithuania?

While banks in Lithuania are resilient enough to possible shocks in the financial markets, a possible burst of the real estate bubble in Scandinavia presents a potential hazard, according to Lithuania's central bank.

The Nord Stream 2 project must be considered not just for its economic and energy significance, but for its military security aspect. Political scientist Margarita Šešelgytė believes that the pipeline would give the Russian military a reason to militarise the Swedish island of Gotland, which is sign...

2016 metų „Eurovizijos“ dainų konkurso pusfinalius ir finalą kartu su pernai Švedijai pergalę iškovojusiu Mansu Zelmerlowu vedė šokėja, aktorė ir komikė Petra Mede. Šis konkursas į Švediją sugrįžta jau trečią kartą, nors šalis jame nugalėjo net šešis kartus, rašo mirror.co.uk.

Sweden's public TV broadcaster SVT has apologized for presenting Lithuania's Donny Montell as a Latvian singer in the official 2016 Eurovision brochure.

The ceremony of opening the United States’ missile defense base in Deveselu, Romania, last week (Thursday, May 12), was greeted by a barrage of condemnation and criticism from Russian officials. The next day, President Vladimir Putin turned these denouncements into state policy by defining this depl...

As the United Kingdom is preparing for a referendum on its membership in the European Union, a survey suggests that almost half of voters in eight big EU countries would also like to have in-out votes.

Tradiciniame tarptautiniame kultūrizmo ir fitneso turnyre (IFBB) Švedijoje „Sweden Grand Prix 2016“ puikiai rungtyniavo penki Lietuvos atstovai, kurie visi pateko į finalininkų šešetus.

The electricity interconnection between Lithuania and Sweden Nordbalt is back online after a malfunction shut it down last week.

Swedish banking group Nordea is planning to sell its branch in the Baltic states, Estonia's business paper Äripäev has reported.

Direct foreign investment (FDI) were on the rise in Lithuania last year, growing from 0.6% to 2.1% of the country's GDP year-on-year.

Lithuanian swimming prodigy Rūta Meilutytė blew away the field in women's 50m breaststroke final at Swim Open Stockholm on Thursday night.

NordBalt electricity connection with Sweden has been fixed. However, there is no information on when the connection will resume the supply of electricity.

As Swedish experts continue to look for the causes of a malfunction on the NordBalt interconnection between Sweden and Lithuania, electricity prices have reacted by jumping upwards.