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According to Statistics Estonia, more than 222,000 tourists stayed in accommodation establishments in November 2023, which is 1% less than in November 2022 and 11% less than in October 2023. Year on year, accommodation establishments hosted fewer foreign as well as domestic tourists, Statistics Esto...
Lithuania's competition authority has imposed a fine on Estonia’s Express Grupp media group for violating competition rules when purchasing Lithuania-based Lrytas company.
Ukraine hopes to start real negotiations for European Union accession early next year, says Oleh Nikolenko, spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. Institutional reform of the EU should not be a mandatory condition for EU enlargement, he said.
Can we say that the borders of the European Union (EU) are safe from abuse by the agents of the Kremlin? No, we cannot. And this is not just a small vulnerability. It is a massive, but hopefully not a deliberate access route into the EU, which is used by those, whom we most need to keep out: Kremlin...
On 23-24 November, Vilnius will host the fifth international Baltic Transport Forum, the largest transport and logistics sector event in the Baltic countries. The milestone event will be opened by President Gitanas Nausėda and Minister of Transport and Communications Marius Skuodis.
Since the beginning of the full-scale war which is being conducted by Russia, dozens of Ukrainian people have been forced to flee their homes, to save their lives. It is not an easy task for them to adapt in other European countries as they face difficulties such as foreign languages, inability to g...
The Seimas have approved a bill banning fur farming in Lithuania. The bill, which was passed by a majority of votes, was also supported by the country’s president, Gitanas Nausėda. Fur farm owners will receive compensation but, according to the MPs who opposed the decision, the proposed amounts are ...
On Thursday, 5 October, the largest in the Baltic States military equipment repair workshop Vilkas (Wolf) was opened in Rukla, central Lithuania.
Small salaries, nepotism, different pay for men and women for the same job – when talking about Lithuania’s labour market, such comments are common. Employee selection experts have noticed that Lithuania as an employer definitely has room for improvement, and that it is especially difficult to catch...
Molecules of green gas produced in Lithuania from renewable resources are already circulating in the country’s gas transmission network, operator of the Lithuanian natural gas transmission system Amber Grid has announced.
On her first visit to Lithuania, the First Lady of the Republic of Korea Kim Keon Hee July 11th, 2023, visited Mykolas Romeris University (MRU), where she met with King Sejong Institute (KSI) Vilnius students and staff and viewed an exhibit highlighting the activities of KSI. She also viewed a Korea...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has confirmed his personal participation in the NATO summit, which will take place in Lithuania’s capital, Vilnius, on 11-12 July, reports Ukrinform.
Lithuania has been ranked sixth among European countries on the 2023 Global Gender Gap Index, the Ministry of Social Security and Labour said on Friday.
On Monday, the reconstruction of the longest section between Marijampolė and the Lithuanian-Polish border (56.83–72.50 km) of Via Baltica’s A5 Kaunas–Marijampolė– Suwałki has been officially launched, the Ministry of Transport and Communications announces.
Russia’s imperial ambitions pose an existential threat not only to Ukraine, but also to Europe as a whole, and political, economic and military assistance to Ukrainians is the only direct way to address the continent’s security problems, President Gitanas Nausėda stressed in his address to the leade...
The Seimas security committee chair appealed on Tuesday to the prosecutor general asking to prosecute Russian propagandists Vladimir Solovyov and Anton Krasovsky for war crimes and crimes against humanity under universal jurisdiction.
Several more Lithuanian high tech companies are expected to receive Taiwanese investments, says Head of the Taiwanese Representative Office in Lithuania Eric Huang.
Influential German politicians have acknowledged that the war in Ukraine, which has been going for over a year now, finally made them understand Russia and the threat it poses, and now they are ready to help Ukraine expeditiously. “Now, no one can blame us for being slow,” the guests said.
Amber Grid has signed a contract for the connection of a biomethane power plant to the gas transmission system. It is planned that the plant in Pasvalys district, operated by Tube Green UAB, will be able to supply biomethane to the gas transmission network in mid-2023, reports AB Amber Grid, the ope...
U.S. and other major tech platforms that treat their own services more favorably, at the expense of rivals, could be forced to sell businesses and pay billion-dollar fines under strict rules unveiled by the European Union.
