PM lashes out at analysts – The Baltic Times
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TALLINN — Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip has lashed out at Danske Bank analysts who said the country's accession into the eurozone was still not assured and that there was a very real ch…
Record slump in spirits sales shapes new consumer behavior – The Baltic Times
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KLAIPEDA – Though “Eurostat,” the EU Statistics Agency, claims that alcohol retail turnover in Lithuania slumped an EU record-breaking 17.1 percent last year, Lithuanians nonetheless re…
Strong demand despite increased excise duty – The Baltic Times
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TALLINN – Despite the excise duty on alcohol goingup starting in January this year, Estonian alcohol producers have been working at full capacity to meet the demands of its customers. According to …
Literature Festival ‘Prima Vista 2010’ reaches new heights – The Baltic Times
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TARTU/TALLINN – The Tartu International Literature Festival “Prima Vista” is a feast for everyone who values books and reading. Since its beginning [7 years ago], the festival has gradu…
Upcoming Events – The Baltic Times
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Dominic Miller Band
May 15 Great Guild, Riga
May 16 St. Katrina’s Church, Vilnius
Michel Legrand and Moscow Virtuosi
May 25 Nokia Concert Hall, Tallinn
Rod Stewart
June 10 Vin…
Europe Day to be celebrated outdoors in Lithuania – The Baltic Times
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VILNIUS – On May 9, 1950, Robert Schuman, a Luxembourg-born politician who later became French foreign minister, made his famous speech about the necessity for European countries to co-operate more…
Ethnic disputes around WWII highlight ignorance of the past – The Baltic Times
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RIGA – For many, May marks the beginning of spring, a time of showers turning to flowers and the winter chills turning to summer warmth. In Latvia however, as well as in many parts of the former So…
Cosmos crank raves over abundance of aliens in the Universe – The Baltic Times
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Forget NASA’s mind-boggling Mars program and the European Space Agency’s far-reaching goals for space exploration and human spaceflight. Lithuania’s down to earth Moletai, a rural…
The bookkeeper in power – The Baltic Times
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Almost one year ago, on May 17, Lithuanians elected Dalia Grybauskaite as their president. The first reason why they did so was the impressive title of the job at the time: member of the European C…
The Tragedy with Fragile Signs of Hope – The Baltic Times
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The Polish President Lech Kaczynski’s plane crash on April 10, 2010, on the day marking the 70th anniversary of one of the worst war crimes of the twentieth century, in the unholy Katyn, a tr…
Ignalina closure hits GDP growth – The Baltic Times
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VILNIUS – Lithuania’s economy, which exited the European Union’s second-worst recession last year, contracted in the first quarter versus the previous three months after the closure of …
Structural reforms still needed – The Baltic Times
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RIGA – The recovery of Eastern European economies remains “fragile” even as the worst of the crisis may be over, says rating agency Moody’s Investors Service, reports Bloomberg. T…
Lithuania a drag on Swedbank forecast – The Baltic Times
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VILNIUS – The Lithuanian banking market is the Baltic nations’ weakest and “still bleeds quite badly,” says Erkki Raasuke, Swedbank’s chief financial officer, reports ELTA. …
Dombrovskis says Greece should ‘get real’ – The Baltic Times
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RIGA – Euro members facing “dramatically” rising debt burdens need to push through budget cuts on a similar scale to those imposed by Latvia, said Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis, rep…
Banks say outlook improving – The Baltic Times
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RIGA – Newly released first quarter earnings numbers for the greater Nordic region banks are proving a mixed bag for an industry that has been battered in this global recession. Though there are si…