- May 16, 2025
Article authored by Viesturs Deksnis. The Baltic Sea region has been facing a series of growing challenges that highlight its geopolitical significance and the urgent need for enhanced security measures. [..]
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) invested a record EUR 233 million in Lithuania in 2024, and it plans to maintain or even increase the level of investments [..]
There is sufficient competition in the banking sector in Latvia, but it would not be proper to claim that it will not expand, LETA was told by the board chairman [..]
Article authored by Viesturs Deksnis. One of Latvia’s largest business delegations visited the United States last autumn, led by Latvian President Edgars Rinkēvičs. A wide range of businesspeople participated, seeking [..]
Article authored by Viesturs Deksnis. The recent winners of the Latvian Investment and Development Agency (LIAA) competition “Idea Cup 2024,” Toms Lazdovskis and Matīss Tazāns, creators of the “MONK ECHO” [..]
The market share of small fuel traders in Latvia has been declining in recent years, says Jānis Viba, board chairman of the Virsi-A energy trading company which runs the Virsi [..]
Article authored by Viesturs Deksnis. A month ago, the sports portal Sportacentrs.com published an article stating that in the 2024/2025 season, 38 Latvians, including three female coaches, represent teams in [..]
Article authored by Viesturs Deksnis. The General Data Protection Regulation brought about many major legal changes in various sectors and businesses, but now another huge challenge has appeared to change [..]
The Independence is a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) at Lithuania’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Klaipėda, and it is distinguished among such vessels because of its workload [..]
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said on Monday that the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) has “clearly won” this past weekend’s parliamentary election, adding that a government formed by centre-left political [..]
Journalist’s Ain Alvela interview with Mikk Marran, the Chairman of the Management Board of the Estonian State Forest Management Centre (RMK), who thinks that the RMK’s development plan is placing [..]
Journalist’s Ain Alvela interview with an aviation expert Toomas Peterson, who thinks that involving a core investor should help alleviate the company’s financial concerns, enable the purchase or lease of [..]
By journalist Inga Karlinska. Although entrepreneurs and organisations protecting their interests have been actively trying to draw attention of the government and politicians to the necessity to improve competitiveness of [..]
Article authored by Viesturs Deksnis. One of the cornerstones in successful entrepreneurship is ability to plan cash flow correctly and supervise the entire playing field. Development of technology has opened [..]
Forest soil improvement is relevant in many countries of the world. One of the projects created to achieve this measure is InBestSoil. This is an innovative project funded by the [..]
The production of Karvutė (Latvian: Gotina) candy, which was very popular decades ago, is gaining momentum in the Baltics again. The Latvians are leading in this area, but Lithuanian producers [..]
Continuing a series of articles in which presidential hopefuls respond to questions posed by BNS, in the second part, we present the candidates’ responses on Lithuania’s foreign policy. We asked [..]
Ain Alvela, Editor of TööstusEST, interview with Kati Kusmin, Chairman of the Management Board of The Estonian Business and Innovation Agency (EIS). Kati Kusmin, which was recently created with the [..]
As Viciunai Group, a Lithuanian fish and other food production and sale group partly owned by Kaunas Mayor Visvaldas Matijosaitis, has recently sold its business in Russia, Belarus and other [..]
The combined economy of the three Baltic States has not grown since the beginning of 2022. However, according to the changes in gross domestic product (GDP) the paths that the [..]
Journalist’s Ain Alvela interview with Sirje Potisepp, the head of the Estonian Food Industry Association. Estonian food industry has throughout history survived through thick and thin, but for a small [..]
Journalist’s Ain Alvela interview with the creative director of the European Capital of Culture Tartu 2024 Kati Torp. The following year will pass in Tartu and Southern Estonia focusing heavily [..]
When one of the most famous Lithuanian music producers, Lauras Lučiūnas, decided to start producing vinyl records, many had doubts about such plans. However, half a year was enough for [..]
Journalist’s Ain Alvela interview with the deputy chancellor for energy at the Ministry of Climate Timo Tatar. By the end of the year after next, Estonian shale oil power plants [..]
It is critically important to pay much more attention to the security of energy supply, Uldis Bariss, Chairman of the Board of the natural gas transmission and storage operator Conexus [..]
Journalist’s Ain Alvela interview with Selver AS Business Accounting Manager Kristjan Anderson. The sales volume of Estonian groceries has been on a downward trend since March 2022, turnover at current [..]
By journalist Inga Karlinska. By January 2020, European Union member states were required to implement anti-money laundering laws, which, among other things, included the introduction of public registers of beneficial [..]
Journalist’s Ain Alvela interview with Juhan Aguraiuja, the head of Adven Baltics, which provides district heating services in Estonia and also in Latvia, Finland and Sweden The upcoming winter and [..]
NATO does not require the creation of a division in Lithuania, Rob Bauer, chair of the NATO Military Committee says, adding that allied support for such a military unit will [..]
Journalist’s Ain Alvela interview with Mihkel Nestor, an economic analyst at SEB Bank Over the past three years, the Estonian economy has been hit by several setbacks – while after [..]
Dr. Adelle Thomas is a lead author of the IPCC’s 2022 report on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, and the Special Report on 1.5°C. The world is falling short on reducing [..]
Electing a pro-Western government could open the way for Georgia to secure EU candidate status, Nika Gvaramia, a Georgian pro-opposition journalist and television host, said during his recent visit to [..]
Dr. Rokas Šerpytis is a cardiologist at Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Klinikos, who successfully defended his dissertation Microcirculation Measurements in Critical and Non-critical Myocardial Ischemia for his PhD in Medicine. [..]
Valdis Dombrovskis, European Commission Executive Vice-President and Trade Commissioner, currently on a visit to Lithuania, says that subsidies requested by Lithuanian politicians and Ukrainian farmers for the transport of grain [..]
Priit Sarapuu (50), who has worked for the largest security company in Estonia for 24 years and has been managing it for the last ten years, says that the economic [..]
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