Behind the Scenes Preparations for the Euro

Behind the Scenes Preparations for the Euro

The ex-Baltic tiger will join the Frankfurt-based banking arena on January 1st, 2015. How are Lithuania’s preparations for joining the eurozone unfolding? How are citizens reacting to this new currency? Cafébabel went on the ground to gain a better understanding of the preparations. Inflation, economic development, identity loss, opening up to the European market…Lithuanians think […]

Marriage in Lithuania: Dangerous Liaisons

Marriage in Lithuania: Dangerous Liaisons

Lithuania is resisting the rising unpopularity of marriage a bit more compared to other countries in Europe. A tenacity that has been carefully held by the quite influential church who suffers at the idea of sacrificing its main institution on the altar of ‘new social tendencies’. An interview between Vilnius, Kaunas and an imbroglio of […]

Lithuania: The Returners

Lithuania: The Returners

As a result of 2008 crisis, unemployment pushed a significant amount of young Lithuanians to try their luck abroad. After a peak in 2010, the flow seemed to slow little by little. Now, there is even the return of these expatriates, pushed by government policies for their return as much as by improving economic conditions. […]