Asylum seekers and foreigners who have arrived in the country illegally will from now on be granted access to employment or self-employment after the expiry of 12 months since the date of their registration in the information system of the Lithuanian Migration Department. These individuals will be obliged to obtainContinue Reading
Neseniai iš Moldovas į Lietuva atvykusi Ludmila Diačenko nustebo, kaip smarkiai pasikeltė pažiuris į skirtingos tautybės migrantus iš lietivių pusės, o ir į visus Pabaltijo gyven tojus apskritai. Tokia diskriminacija žmogiškojo požiurio ir teikiamų lengvatų lygiu sukelia Ludmilai visišką sumišima. Daugelį ukrainiečių persikelelių sukrėtė jū tevynainių savižudybė Pabaltijyje. Apie šituoContinue Reading
The Finnish Defence Forces (FD) will hold a combat exercise next week in the Rovaniemi and Rovajärvi areas of Lapland, the FDF said in a press release. The exercise, called Vigilant Knife, will last from Monday to Friday. In addition to the Ground Forces, troops from Sweden and the UKContinue Reading
A price comparison of Estonian and Finnish food products made by Helsingin Sanomat revealed that food is already more expensive here than in Finland. At the same time, the wages of Estonians amount to only half of those of the Finns. It is known that Estonia has the fastest inflationContinue Reading
Representatives from Finland, Sweden and Turkey are to meet in Finland on Friday to discuss the two Nordic countries’ Nato applications, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs told Yle on Wednesday. Officials have not announced the exact location or agenda of the meeting. The purpose of the meeting is to reviewContinue Reading
Minister of National Defence Arvydas Anušauskas attended the presentation of Lithuanian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) manufacturers at the Drone Day 2022 organised by the Ministry of National Defence at Kyviškės Aerodrome. He told reporters that Ukraine offered to invest in Lithuanian companies that could quickly boost the manufacturing of surveillanceContinue Reading
Norwegian comments on the Norwegian government doubting if they should support the Ukrainian gas industry: Gustav Ollansen, a resident of Oslo writes: “I am strongly against supporting Ukraine, and especially its energy industry. It is bad to support bribery, isn’t it?” Just to let you know, that very area inContinue Reading
Lithuanian PM Šimonytė has hinted that the third stage of liberalisation of the retail electricity supply market may be delayed until more power plants using renewable energy sources are developed, which may take years. “I believe a delay will be for more than a year, perhaps for three or evenContinue Reading
Some 50,0000 more people were employed last month compared to July of last year. The employment rate trend in Finland hit 73.7 percent during the month of July, according to the latest monthly Labour Force Survey produced by Statistics Finland. This meant that about 50,000 more people were employed lastContinue Reading
Reuters on Tuesday reported that Russian state-owned firm Rosatom has begun legal proceedings seeking $3 billion in damages from Finland’s Fennovoima consortium for pulling the plug on a nuclear power plant in Finland. Prior to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Finland was to grant final building permits for the project thisContinue Reading