Lithuanians

Around 800 thousand Lithuanians would benefit from the Government’s proposed changes to the personal income tax (GPM) and other taxes, leaving some 17,500 self-employed people negatively affected, says the finance minister.

The Government’s performance rating slumped by nearly 9% in May, while the number of Lithuanians disapproving of the Cabinet grew by 12%, a poll by Spinter Tyrimai for the Delfi news website shows.

A total of 882.1 thousand people in Lithuania received at least one type of pension at the end of 2022, according to preliminary estimates from the State Data Agency.

Only 1% of Lithuanian residents think that the country’s economic situation improved recently, while as many as 78% feel that the economic situation has deteriorated, a poll published by the news website Delfi shows. The respondents were also asked how their household’s financial situation changed a...

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Lithuanians returning to their home country from abroad for the holidays will be allowed to go to their place of residence or the place of stay, but will be prohibited from travelling between municipalities, Interior Minister Agne Bilotaite said on Thursday.

Lithuanians have a positive view of the European Union's existing anti-pandemic measures, but 65 percent of the country's residents would like the EU to have more powers to tackle the pandemic, and 44 percent would want more funds, a new survey commissioned by the European Parliament shows.

More Lithuanians would prefer Joe Biden over Donald Trump as the next US president, an opinion poll commissioned by BNS has found.

More than 40,000 voters have registered for voting abroad since the beginning of registration for voting in the parliamentary elections due on October 11, Laura Matjosaityte, chair of Lithuania's Central Electoral Commission (CEC), has said.

Some 22,882 Lithuanian citizens living abroad had registered to vote in the upcoming Seimas election in October by Monday, according to figures from the Central Electoral Commission.

Nine Lithuanian citizens, their spouses and persons eligible for Lithuanian citizenship have been relocated to Lithuania from Venezuela on Friday, Lithuania's Foreign Ministry said.

The Lithuanian Foreign Ministry launched on Friday the registration of citizens who are unable to return from countries hardest hit by the coronavirus on their own.

The Lithuanian Embassy said on Tuesday it is looking into an incident in Copenhagen where, based on local media reports, Danish workers attacked counterparts from Lithuania at a building site.

The Lithuanians shop online more than the Latvians and Estonians, a new survey by the SEB bank shows, with people in Lithuania often choosing local online stores.

A rally held in Vilnius on Friday in support to Hong Kong pro-democracy activists was overshadowed by a clash with Beijing supporters, two of whom were taken to a police station.

Georgia's alternative name "Sakartvelas" is slowly growing in popularity in Lithuania but the country's old name "Gruzija" still dominates in the media, according to data collected by BNS Lithuania from media monitoring and survey company Mediaskopas

This year "Cinema under the stars" which for a decade has been organizing the outdoor films together with the Lithuanian film center presents a special initiative - screening of a Lithuanian classic film to unite world Lithuanians.

New details have emerged regarding the Tuesday night incident when two Lithuanians fell overboard from a ferry going to Lithuania from Sweden. It turns out one of the men was trying to save the other one.

The High Court has held a company’s officers personally, jointly and severally liable to its employees as victims of modern slavery. The officers had deliberately and systematically utilised coercive, threatening and punitive financial measures to exploit the company’s employees and force them to li...

Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius has called on the Seimas to set up two separate parliamentary election constituencies for Lithuanians living abroad.