Valdas Sutkus, the president of the Lithuanian Business Confederation (LVK), and Mantas Zalatorius, the president of the Lithuanian Banks' Association (LBA), and another four people were detained by law-enforcement officials on Tuesday on suspicions of unlawful influence on legislative processes.
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Lithuania's elite has named Robertas Dargis, president of the Lithuanian Industrialists' Confederation, as the country's most influential person in business for the fifth year in a row, the Delfi.lt online news site reported on Wednesday.
The head of the Lithuanian Industrialists' Confederation hopes that relations between businesses and the president will improve after economist Gitanas Nauseda was elected to the top job.
The Lithuanian Health Ministry's proposals aimed at discouraging smoking should not ruin manufacturers, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Tuesday.
Several last weeks with the e-mails from Eligijus Masiulis, former Liberal Movement Party leader and who is currently under criminal investigation, a scandal of e-mails from Ms. President with a „tulip“ pseudonym, hidden political influences from the MG Baltic corporation and leaked files from the S...
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Monday appointed Tomas Balžekas, a journalist and the owner of a magazine publishing business, Giedrė Švedienė, a former auditor general, and Norbertas Černiauskas, a historian, as new members of the LRT Council.
Lithuania's government has no plans of liberalizing the migration policies, says Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, adding it was currently well-balanced.
Robertas Dargis, businessman and president of the Lithuanian Industrialists' Confederation, said on Friday that he does not plan to run in next year's presidential election.
Lithuanian authorities tightened the procedures of issuing business visas in an effort to curb illegal migration in hopes of preventing sham mediation companies, the Interior Ministry said.
President of the Lithuanian Confederation of Industrialists (LPK) Robertas Dargis says that the shortage of specialists and growing migration to foreign countries and Lithuania's major cities will first pose problems for rural areas.
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has presented the Lithuanian Confederation of Industrialists (LPK) with the Government's plans of enhancing the country's competitiveness and attractiveness to businesses.
As thousands of refugees fleeing wars in the Middle East and Africa arrive in Europe, Lithuania, too, is going to accept more asylum seekers than previously planned. Some employers in the country say they will welcome new potential employees.
India invited Lithuanian companies to take advantage of new and exciting opportunities for investment, at a "Make in India" roadshow organised by Embassy of India and Honorary Consul of India in Vilnius, Wing Commander Rajinder Chaudhary, in partnership with Confederation of Industrialists of Lithua...
The number of holiday-makers choosing Lithuania as their destination is falling, yet, there are increasingly more and more business tourists in the country, which allows expecting a modest growth in the sector in the upcoming 6 months, a Tourism Confidence Index compiled by the Confederation of Lith...
The Presidium of the Lithuanian Confederation of Industrialists (LPK) has confirmed on Tuesday that industrialists welcome the government's plans to increase the minimum monthly wage once again in July.
Due to the current geopolitical tensions and crisis, Lithuania's exports to the region of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) last year declined by EUR 158 million, however, at the same time exports to new markets grew by EUR 176 million.
The European Commission’s 315-billion-euro investment plan may benefit Lithuania, but the scheme of its financing still involves many uncertainties, Lithuania’s permanent representative to the European Union (EU) has said.
More than 20 businesspeople and representatives of business organisations are taking part in the high level Ukraine-Lithuania business mission to Brussels on 9-11 December, organised by the Lithuanian Confederation of Industrialists (LPK), the confederation said in a report.
Žygimantas Mauricas, chief economist of the bank Nordea, who spoke at the Yearly Economic Forum of the Lithuanian Confederation of Industrialists, said that Lithuania should sort out its financing priorities from the European Union structural funds.