Lithuania

Despite overshooting our 2011 estimate of 4.9% real GDP growth - with the economy expanding by 5.8% last year - we believe that the sharp slowdown in economic activity in Q411 highlights... 2012-01-30

Growth in exports throughout the majority of 2011 was almost evenly matched by growth in imports, which has seen a continued widening of Lithuania's trade in goods gap to EUR1.45bn... 2012-01-30

The days of the austerity-focused centre-right coalition government under Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius are numbered, and a reversal on fiscal policy after the October 2012 parliamentary... 2011-12-23

Growing macroeconomic headwinds in Europe and the government's firm adherence to additional fiscal consolidation will see the Lithuanian economy come to a standstill in 2012. The already... 2011-12-23

We expect tensions in the Baltic region to remain elevated in 2012 against the backdrop of an increasingly assertive Russian state. However, while we do not expect outright Russian... 2011-12-15

The Lithuanian government sought to reassure other banks that its nationalisation of

Lithuania's consumer price inflation resumed its disinflationary trend by slowing to 4.2% y-o-y in October, after increasing to 4.5% y-o-y in September from 4.4% y-o-y in August following... 2011-11-21