========================Country NEWS====================== Group Number: _____4______ Country:Lithuania _________ Group Members ===================================================================== Board of directors of a major US corporation has charged your group to conduct an analysis and recommend the course of action with respect to a particular country. The US Corporation has envisioned expansion of its domain to the assigned country and seeks your analysis as a guideline for its Global Strategic initiative.
As part of the country analysis you should prepare weekly report of news related to doing business in your country. The news should be related to some aspects of doing business in that country. It can includes –but not limited to- topics related to trade, economy, politics, currency, as well other business related news; for example a cultural or sports news/event that can have direct or indirect business implications.
For each month identify and write about 2 paragraphs describing the Top-business-news-of-the-month in that country. In the first paragraph describe the story/news; and in the second paragraph describe its importance/implications for that country’s economy as well as its possible international business implications.
Make sure all FONTS are Calibri-11. DO NOT CHANGE FONTS AND SPACING.
Nice presentation of this report is part of your grade!
You can use any creditable source; ANY RESOURCE you use must be cited. Any use of Wikipedia, blogs and similar unreliable resources will cause a minimum 50% loss of grade, per incident. Sources like Economist, WSJ, CNN, BBC, and government websites are some examples of good resources.
Note for Flag: Replace the Green Flag located on top of this page with the flag of your assigned country.
I will ask groups periodically to bring their Country-News work to class. You should present this as part of your Country News presentation.

Week of | Top Three Business News | 1 | Jan 14 | 1- Title:Date:Description:URL:2- Title:Date:Description:URL:3- Title:Date:Description:URL: | START THE NEWS FROM WEEK-2Hence, leave this box blank | 2 | Jan 21 | 1- Title:Date:Description:URL:2- Title:Date:Description:URL:3- Title:Date:Description:URL: | 3 | Jan 28 | 1- Title:Date:Description:URL:2- Title:Date:Description:URL:3- Title:Date:Description:URL: | Identify and Briefly Explain the TOP Business News of January for this country | | 4 | Feb 4 | 1- Title:Date:Description:URL:2- Title:Date:Description:URL:3- Title:Date:Description:URL: | 5 | Feb 11 | 1- Title:Date:Description:URL:2- Title:Date:Description:URL:3- Title:Date:Description:URL: | 6 | Feb 18 | 1- Title:Date:Description:URL:2- Title:Date:Description:URL:3- Title:Date:Description:URL: | 7 | Feb 25 | 1- Title:Date:Description:URL:2- Title:Date:Description:URL:3- Title:Date:Description:URL: | Identify and Briefly Explain the TOP Business News of February for this country | Title:Date:Description:URL: | 8 | Mrh 4 | 1- Title: Lithuania signs agreement on common patent courtDate: February 20, 2013Description: Lithuania’s Minister of Economy Birute Vesaite signed the EU agreement on a common patent court during the meeting of European Union Competitiveness Council in Brussels. The signed agreement is to create unified patent court and to set common rules of patent disputes investigations. The establishment of unified patent court is a very important step in creating common patent security system in the EU, which is expected to strengthen the EU's global competitiveness, while the new joint patent system will promote innovation.URL: http://www.baltictimes.com/news/articles/32555/2- Title:Date:Description:URL:3- Title:Date:Description:URL: | 9 | Mrh 11 | 1- Title: Ireland shares its EU Council Presidency experienceDate: March 6, 2013Description: Last month, on February 26, 2013, President Dalia Grybauskaite met with the President of