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Finance Minister Gintarė Skaistė says the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) intention to restart economic consultations with Russia sends a ’very bad signal’ to the international community.

Lithuania has weathered the shocks of recent years and should recover faster than projected, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission said in Vilnius on Friday. The IMF forecasts gross domestic product (GDP) growth in Lithuania at 2.4% this year, up from 2.2% in April.

The solidarity levy on banks will not turn into a long-term tax as it targets a variable share of banks’ profits, the head of Lithuania’s central bank says.

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High concentration in Lithuania's banking sector has so far not resulted in a lack of competition in this sector, Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, says.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is asked to conduct an independent evaluation of money laundering prevention in the Nordic and Baltic region, a member of the Bank of Lithuania's board said Wednesday.

Lithuania should consider expanding the real estate tax base, Vitas Vasiliauskas, board chairman of the central Bank of Lithuania, says, doubting, however, such changes could be adopted during the existing "political cycle."

Lithuania's economy is stable and the country is better than ever prepared for challenges, the head of the central Bank of Lithuania and experts from an International Monetary Fund mission, who have finished the work in the country, say.

Lithuania's economy will grow at the slowest rate among the Baltic countries, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecasts. Faster growth is also expected in Poland.

The mists over the future of UK – EU relations currently still lingers. It appears that Theresa May’s cabinet is starting to completely lose control of the situation. According to political experts, the agreement she has obtained has practically no chance of receiving support in the UK’s House of Co...

A mission from the International Monetary Fund ends its work in Lithuania on Monday.

Lithuanian economy will slow slightly next year but the country will have an accumulated reserve of 1.5 billion euros late next year to be used in times of financial difficulties, Finance Minister Vilius Šapoka says.

Lithuania's government plans to encourage major cities to restrict movement of diesel cars as of 2020 to fight negative climate change consequences.

The Lithuanian government may take decisions on a car tax in the fall in an effort to tackle the pressing problem of pollution and encourage motorists to choose less-polluting vehicles, Finance Minister Vilius Šapoka said on Thursday.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that his government experienced pressure to introduce a blanket tax on real estate, describing its current proposal as a compromise.

Experts from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) called on Lithuania to address social disparity and demographic challenges as they completed their mission in Vilnius on Monday.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis will present his government's planned structural reforms to an IMF mission finishing its work in Vilnius on Monday.