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The Ministry of Economy and Innovation states that meetings are currently being held with representatives of state institutions and business associations to discuss the most important obstacles and challenges and proposals on how to attract these Belarusian companies and specialists to Lithuania.
According to Economy and Innovation Minister Rimantas Sinkevičius, Belarusian specialists could help fill Lithuania’s IT gaps.
“We invite Belarusian citizens and companies to settle in our country. The Lithuanian labor market is facing a shortage of qualified specialists, which is felt especially in the field of information technology, so specialists from Belarus would be welcome and they would fill this niche, ”said R. Sinkevičius in the report.
According to Deputy Minister of Economy and Innovation Marius Skuodis, the institutions are considering how to simplify migration procedures, give Belarusians the opportunity to open accounts in Lithuanian banks and how to improve the tax environment.
“If these tasks are not solved, this would become a really serious obstacle for Belarusian companies and highly qualified specialists to come to Lithuania,” M. Skuodis said in the report.
According to the report, the possibility of giving up redundant documents, simplifying visa issuance rules and staff qualification requirements is being considered.
Infrastructure development would also help attract qualified Belarusian specialists as they would come to Lithuania with their families, the ministry claims.
Although the energy, fertilizer, heavy machinery and agriculture sectors in Belarus are dominated by state-owned companies, the IT sector in Minsk has grown rapidly in recent years, with official data of almost 1.7 thousand. companies. For example, the Belarusian company Wargaming has developed the popular game World of Tanks.
In mid-August, representatives of Belarusian IT companies addressed the country’s authoritarian leader, Aliaksandr Lukashenko, with a request to hold new presidential elections and stop the atrocities on the country’s streets. If this is not done, companies have threatened to move elsewhere.
Belarus has been rocked by protests for weeks after Lukashenko was declared the winner of the presidential election.
The opposition believes that the elections are rigged, demanding new elections and the release of political prisoners.
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