News from Lithuania brought to the UK in English, to help bring awareness from Lithuania to the UK.
RB Rail, the new joint rail system to be constructed and shared by Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania, has been registered in Latvia. Talks and agreements taking place last month for Rail Baltic II are a further continuation of Baltic I – which includes a line from the Polish-Lithuanian border to a new intermodal terminal...
It was reported on Reuters that the Lithuanian government encouraged utility company Leituvos Dujos shareholders to seek arbitration against natural gas supplier Gazprom. Voting was held on Thursday to force Gazprom to reduce its prices. Lithuania currently pays some of the highest utility prices in Europe, much higher than paid by her nearest neighbours...
Sourced by BT 1 To promote the development of the Baltic textile industry and to expand it to the international markets, the International Exhibition Company BT 1, the organisers of the Lithuanian textile fair “Baltic Textile & Leather” and the textile industry associations of Latvia and Lithuania have reached an agreement that, as of...
In order to ensure fair and equal representation for the Baltic’s at the next upcoming European Council meeting at which will be decided the EU agricultural budget for 2014 to 2020, an event is being planned by farmers in the Baltic States to light some 400 fires along the access roads to Via Baltica...
Recent data released by Eurostat demonstrates that the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have recorded the greatest fall in unemployment rates of all the EU countries for 2012. Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union and by comparing figure from all the EU member states over a twelve year period...
Ikea, international retail furnishing giant, will open their first outlet in Lithuania’s capital city,Vilnius, in 2013. The move will provide an added economic boon to Lithuania not only in the form of jobs opportunities, as Ikea is seeking staffing solutions for many sectors – sales, marketing, consumer relations, logistics, communication and design, business coordination...
