From September 13, 186 supermarkets in Lithuania require clients to have the national Covid certificate, the Opportunity Pass (Galimybiu Pasas). On the first day of the new rules, shops reported a drop in revenue with some conflicts erupting at the door between clients and workers checking the passes. Maxima, one of the biggest chains, saw…
Siauliai Airport in northern Lithuania has become the parking lot for dozens of passenger airliners to be reconfigured into cargo carriers. The long-range passenger airliner Airbus A340 is a rare sight at the airports of the Baltic States. However, several of such planes are currently parked at Siauliai airport, where they are being reconfigured to…
Lithuania has from September 13 introduced new restrictions to present the country’s own or the pan-EU Covid-19 certificate to enter a sleeve of indoor public spaces. Yet the documents will not be required in intercity public transport. The Lithuanian opportunity pass is issued to people, who have recovered from Covid-19 in the past 180 days,…
Lithuania’s parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs expressed its support to the actions of the Lithuanian Government with respect to China. Zygimantas Pavilionis, the committee’s chairman, said after the meeting that Lithuania might even benefit from China’s sanctions over time. “I think Lithuania will benefit from these sanctions, as can be seen from the example of…
The Lithuanian government has allocated 670,000 euros to municipalities for the accommodation and education of migrants and for dealing with the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic. These include 325,000 euros from the state reserve to cover migrant children’s education costs. Deputy Finance Minister Gediminas Norkunas told the cabinet that the cost estimate was preliminary and…
People from Taiwan have increased their spending in Lithuania’s online stores amid growing ties between the two countries. According to the data from Taiwan’s institutions, residents of the island’s seven large cities made approximately 112,000 credit card payments, worth more than 2.5 billion new Taiwan dollars (around EUR 76 million), in Lithuanian stores between February…
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned Lithuania about risks of overheating – both in particular sectors and in the economy as a whole. Among the risks, the IMF listed uneven recovery of the country’s main trade partners, geopolitical tensions, disruptions to the vaccination process and a lagging absorption of the European Union’s (EU) economic…