SocietyLietuvos Gelezinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways) handled a total of 15.254 million tons of freight during the first four months of the year 2016, up 2.7% year-on-year, preliminary figures from Statistics Lithuania showed on May 20th. Public wages of Lithuanian doctors and nursing staff will be raised by 100 and 50 euros, respectively, on July 1, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius said on Thursday. Hungary's low-cost airline Wizz Air intends to open an airplane base at the Kaunas airport in Lithuania within 2 years at the maximum. Russia's natural gas exports to Lithuania and Estonia declined sharply in the first quarter of the year 2016, while exports to Latvia, which will liberalize its gas market only next year, increased. Lithuania should address the issue of aging society and decreasing numbers of working-age population by implementing active labor market policies, say analysts of the International Monetary Fund. More than half of young Europeans aged 16-30 feel marginalised in their own country due to the economic crisis, but few want to move abroad because of it, finds the latest Eurobarometer poll, commissioned by the European Parliament and published on Friday. Nevertheless, for almost all respondents it is important to learn about the EU and how its institutions work. Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State: I am paving the way for the Pope to Lithuania2016-05-14, 12:35Loreta Graužinienė, Speaker of the Seimas, met with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of His Holiness Pope Francis, and expressed her hopes for His Holiness Pope Francis’ visit to Lithuania in the near future. The honourable guest responded to this by saying, “Just as John the Baptist paved the way for Jesus, so will I pave the way for the Pope to Lithuania.” Statistics Lithuania informs that, according to the Labour Force Survey data, in I quarter 2016, the unemployment rate stood at 8.3%, and against IV quarter 2015, decreased by 0.5 percentage points, against the respective period of 2015 – by 1.7 percentage points. In I quarter 2016, the male unemployment rate stood at 9.6%, female – 7%. Lithuania must speed up the overhaul of its forestry enterprises as part of efforts to join the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in 2018, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius said on May 11th. Lithuania's second-biggest beer producer Kalnapilio-Tauro Grupe (Kalnapilis-Tauras Group), which is owned by Denmark's Royal Unibrew, posted revenues of 10.67 million euros in the 1st quarter of 2016, down by 2.3% year-on-year. |
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