According to the data of 1 January 2024, there were 142,954 economic entities operating in Lithuania, which accounted for 60.4 percent of all economic entities registered in the Register of Legal Entities, said the State Data Agency.
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As of 1 January 2024, the resident population of Lithuania totalled 2 million 886.5 thousand, which is by 29 thousand (1 percent) more than a year ago, reports the State Data Agency.
The State Security Department (VSD) has examined the ties of Aivaras Stumbras, the son-in-law and business partner of former president Rolandas Paksas, which may pose a threat to national security. According to investigative journalists from the public broadcaster LRT, Stumbras’ business projects ha...
Colliers Baltic, a real estate services company, has announced it is establishing a project management business in Lithuania. The new company will be led by Germantas Kavaliauskas.
Coalition lawmakers may call an extraordinary session of the Seimas in February. Parliament is in recess from 24 December 2023 until 10 March 2024.
In 2022, Thermo Fisher Scientific Baltics, Vilniaus prekyba and SEB were among the top profit earning companies that paid out the highest dividends, reports business news website vz.lt (Verslo žinios).
В 2005 году Генеральная Ассамблея ООН провозгласила 27 января, день освобождения Освенцима, Международным днем памяти жертв Холокоста. В Литве День геноцида литовских евреев отмечается также 23 сентября — в день, когда в 1943 году началась депортация евреев из ликвидированного Вильнюсского гетто.
On Wednesday, Minister of Agriculture Kęstutis Navickas and Minister of Environment Simonas Gentvilas spoke to farmers who were holding a three-day protest in Vilnius and arrived at the capital with their tractors a day earlier.
Swedbank has reported a net profit of EUR 361 million in Lithuania last year, which is 152% more than in 2022. The rise in the profit is due to significant growth in the corporate loan portfolio, high private client activity, the European Central Bank’s monetary policy and other reasons, the bank sa...
The Labour Party on Monday nominated its leader Andrius Mazuronis as a candidate in the 2024 presidential election, which will take place on 12 May.
On 18 January, Ignitis Group, an integrated renewable energy company, was recognised as Most Environmentally Friendly Company and Workplace of the Year in the category of large companies by the jury of the National Responsible Business Awards. Ignitis Group was also presented the top socially respon...
Based on the data of the Police Department, the number of road traffic fatalities increased by 30% in 2023, compared with 2022.
More than nine in ten (95%) Lithuanians agree with providing humanitarian support to the people affected by the war in Ukraine, a Eurobarometer survey finds. Their opinion is shared by 89% of the respondents in other European Union (EU) countries on the average.
The euro area annual inflation rate was 2.9% in December 2023, up from 2.4% in November. A year earlier, the rate was 9.2%. European Union annual inflation was 3.4% in December 2023, up from 3.1% in November. A year earlier, the rate was 10.4%. These figures are published by Eurostat, the statistica...
On 8-14 January, compared with the previous week, the wholesale electricity price in Lithuania dropped by 49% and on average was EUR 103.01/MWh. In Latvia, electricity price decreased by 49% as well, while in Estonia it slumped 58% and in both countries stood at EUR 102.73/MWh.
In the third quarter of 2023, house prices, as measured by the House Price Index, fell by 2.1% in the euro area and by 1.0% in the EU compared with the same quarter of the previous year. In the second quarter of 2023, house prices fell by 1.5% and 0.9% in the euro area and EU, respectively. These fi...
The Central Electoral Commission of Lithuania (VRK) for the second time has refused to register Antanas Kandrotas as an independent participant of the 2024 presidential election campaign due to a failure to provide the required documents.
The Ministry of the Interior will step up the protection of Lithuania’s border with Russia’s Kaliningrad region this year. Border infrastructure and surveillance systems will be renewed for this reason, and more border guards hired.
As children, we have all heard the saying that the roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. This should be a truly motivating idea, encouraging us to work hard and strive for more, hoping that sometime in the future our efforts will be rewarded with great professional success. However,...
Vilnius University Hospital says it has observed a double rise in injuries as a result of attempts to walk down the icy pavements in Vilnius on Wednesday evening.