SocietyA fish farming and processing company worth LTL 90 million (EUR 26 million) will soon be built near Kupiskis, a town in north-eastern Lithuania, just 4 kilometres from the town centre. 9566 electronic attacks were detected in the third quarter of this year. It is estimated that it is 62 percent more than last year at the same time. What started as an Ebola outbreak in West Africa has evolved into a world-wide threat, with the first European case having been reported in Spain. MEPs labelled the outbreak "a global security challenge" in a resolution adopted on 18 September and said that the international community has underestimated the crisis. According to the World Health Organization, 4,447 people have already died because of Ebola. We discussed the issue with the chairs of the development and public health committees. Minister of Social Security and Labour in Lithuania Algimanta Pabedinskiene says that additional investment and creation of new jobs can considerably contribute to the reduction of poverty. The average price of heating in Lithuania will reach 21.98 cents (without VAT) for kilowatt per hour during the heating season 2014-2015. It is 7.1 percent lower than last year. This is forecasted by the National Commission for Energy Control and Prices. More than a quarter of residents of Lithuania expect the euro to bring direct benefit to them, such as creating more jobs in the country, increasing wages, cheaper borrowing and fewer troubles about currency exchange, a poll commissioned by the life insurance and pension company Aviva Lithuania has showed. At Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council held in Luxemburg, Lithuania together with Poland, Latvia and Greece addressed the issue of Russian ban on imports of agricultural products along with its impact on transportation companies and called the EU to take actions and tackle the negative effects, Lithuania's Ministry of Transport and Communications reports. Northern Europe's 19.7 million shoppers last year spent EUR 200 more online than other EU consumers, about EUR 1,780 each in total, a report has found. The ninth short film festival 'Vilniaus kino šortai' (Vilnius movie shorts) has started on 9th October, in Vilnius. During the festival 55 movies will be shown including some Polish ones. The difference in women and men wages reached 12.5 percent in the past year. This difference, according to statistical data, has increased by another half a percent during one year. |
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