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Klaipeda city and Lithuania's coastline made the summer's top stories in VilNews. Through more than a week we put the spotlight on good and less good aspects of what is happening out there on the Baltic Sea shore. Now, in the autumn, Kaunas and Vilnius will have our attention in a similar way, and we ask you all to come up with ideas and suggestions having to do with past and present of Lithuania’s two largest cities!
We know that many of our readers were on vacation when Klaipeda was treated in our columns. A summary of the articles follows, therefore, below.
Sunday 17 July |
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KLAIPĖDA – the jewel in the amber crown |
Friedricho Pasažas – the new wonder of Klaipėda |
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History of Klaipėda |
Mare Suebicum |
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Monday 18 July |
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KLAIPĖDA MAYOR:
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Radisson Blu Hotel, Klaipėda:
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Tuesday 19 July |
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Western Shipyard – from Soviet colossus to European greatness
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Lido Marine – a Norwegian success story in Klaipėda
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Wednesday 20 July |
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KLAIPĖDA FREE ECONOMIC ZONE:
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Next time you eat bacalao* in Spain or Italy |
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Thursday 21 July |
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Klaipedos Nafta has one of the most up-to-date oil terminals in Europe
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The port of Klaipeda
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WITH BOTH OIL AND LNG IN KLAIPĖDA: |
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Friday 22 July |
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MEMEL CITY – A NEW 'CITY' AT KLAIPEDA'S SEA FRONT
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4 trucks full of books every week
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Saturday 23 July |
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JAMES ANDREW CLARKE:
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KLAIPĖDA SCIENCE And TECHNOLOGY PARK:
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Sunday 24 July |
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From Suriname to Klaipėda International Business Club
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Klaipėda – a pioneer municipality in combating violence against women
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To read all articles, go to our SECTION 9 – LITHUANIA TODAY.
General Director Reidar Inselseth at the Espersen Fish Factory in Klaipeda
I sit with the director of the Espersen plant in Klaipeda, Norwegian Reidar Inselseth, in the new office building his firm has just built. The building is designed as the wheelhouse of a ship, with a shiny blue glass surface, and the 'bow, roof top and masts' in stainless steel.
Reidar has been director of this facility for four years now, and among other things, been responsible for extensive new investments and developments of the company. My first question to him is what he finds hardest by being entrepreneur and company leader in Lithuania.
"The lack of predictability," he replies immediately. "Unfortunately, that is something that to a far too high degree characterizes this country. For my company this is so serious that we hardly had chosen Lithuania for our production if we eight-nine years ago had known what we now know."
"This country is steeped in corruption, which we feel very directly when we often are subjected to strange inspections etc. from the authorities; something we do not see anything like in any of the other countries where we have fish processing plants. We are, for example, constantly subjected to unreasonable disclosure requirements and controls, even if we always follow highly acclaimed and transparent international principles of production, environmental control, bookkeeping and treatment of employees. It feels as if here in Lithuania companies like ours still have to prove their innocence instead of being greeted with open arms and cooperative attitudes."
Aage Myhre
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