The Ukrainian women who have fled to Lithuania are not waiting for social payments or assistance from the state. While some go to work, others take matters into their hands and start businesses from scratch. Natalia Nesterenko and Yekaterina Semenyuk were running a dairy business in Kyiv before the start of the full-scale Russian invasion.…
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda says he has informed Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson about disagreements between the two countries over the sharing of surplus profits generated by electricity producers. “Today I informed the Swedish prime minister about the problem and he promised to look into it,” the president told reporters in Brussels on December 15…
Ukrainians who fled Russia’s war would be issued only digital temporary residence permits in Lithuania from next year, the Migration Department said on December 16. Such residence permits will be issued to both new arrivals and those already in the country. “The digitisation of this process will save a lot of time for Ukrainian refugees,…
The European Union on December 15 agreed on the ninth package of sanctions against Russia. However, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis called the agreement “a missed opportunity”. “The 9th sanctions package was a missed opportunity. Sad that we had to spend so much time discussing derogations, not stronger sanctions. Together with Poland we have managed…
On December 16, Lithuanian Defence Minister Arvydas Anusauskas met with the US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin in Washington and signed the contract for acquiring High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) launchers. For a preliminary price of $495 million, Lithuania is buying eight HIMARS launchers from the US, along with several types of missiles, including long-range…
Airports in the UK and Ireland are testing systems that will relax some security rules on liquids and items, such as laptops, in hand luggage. Lithuanian Airports say they are also planning similar changes. The British government has set a deadline of June 2024 for most UK airports to install new high-tech 3D scanners that…
On December 14, the Lithuanian government approved electricity and natural gas price subsidies for household consumers in the first half of 2023. The scheme provides for covering up to 28.5 euro cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) of electricity and 99 cents per cubic meter of gas, up from 9 cents and 54 cents, respectively. The threshold…