SocietyLithuania's Environment Minister Kestutis Treciokas does not think that the country should speed up the international shale gas exploration tender. "We are pleased that the revised GDP for 2014 compared to 2013 increased by 3% rather than by 2.9% as it was announced in the preliminary estimates. The higher growth was driven by the growth of the construction industry, also, the Government's decisions regarding housing renovation under the new programme," Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius said on Monday. Riga was ranked 2nd in Europe as a city for fast-growth businesses by influential US business publication Inc..Vilnius has been ranked 4th. The list, compiled by influential US business publication Inc., rated European cities on the number companies that made it onto Inc.'s 5000 Europe list of rapidly-expanding enterprises. Agrowill Group, AB has published the interim unaudited financial information for 2014. The effect of the merger between Agrowill Group, AB, Baltic Champs, UAB and eTime invest, UAB is incorporated into the provided Group's consolidated financial statements. Some 3,000 workers made redundant in Belgium, Germany and Poland in 2013-2014 should receive EU aid worth €6.3million to help them find jobs, the Budgets Committee recommended on Thursday. The European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) aid still has to be approved by Parliament as a whole and the Council of Ministers. A new draft text on an EU system for the use of Passenger Name Record (PNR) data, tabled by lead MEP Timothy Kirkhope (ECR, UK), was discussed in the civil liberties committee on Thursday morning. On 26 February 2015, Lithuanian Post (Lietuvos pastas) opened Logistics Centre in Ramuciu village, Kaunas district. The route from Lithuania's capital Vilnius to Trakai, the country's picturesque historic centre, is already dotted with high-tech production units that have sprung up along the road. Joining them is a state of the art facility that will produce up to 4,000 spectacle lenses every day. 11,600 job vacancies recorded in Lithuania in 20142015-02-25, 13:32Most job vacancies were in the industrial sector, more than 2,600, and transport and storage sector, 1,400. Public administration and defence sectors were slightly behind with 1,300 jobs available in each. A total of 97.1% of residents of Lithuania have at least one TV set at home, 32% have two TV sets, while more than every tenth household in the country has three or more TV sets. 96.8% said that they watch TV. |
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