Lithuania

The Parliament on Thursday passed a draft law on abandoning 1 and 2 cent coins. The final sum of the basket of goods and services will be rounded once the legislation takes effect on 1 May 2025.

Conservative MP Arvydas Anušauskas, former minister of national defence, suggests that Conservative MP Arvydas Pocius, former chief of defence, would be appointed as chairman of the Seimas Committee on National Security and Defence.

Law enforcement officers visited the Labour Party’s headquarters on Tuesday and left with a pile of documents. Its Chairman Andrius Mazuronis says the investigation is linked to the previous leadership’s activities in the European Parliament.

President Gitanas Nausėda has doubts about the findings of an ad hoc parliamentary commission that carried out an inquiry into the case of Tomas Gailius, an employee of the State Security Department (VSD) who raised alarm about the activities of the intelligence agency during the 2019 presidential e...

Head of the State Security Department (VSD) Darius Jauniškis assisted President Gitanas Nausėda in his election campaign by collecting information on his circle, a parliamentary inquiry has found.

Gitanas Nausėda started meeting with some Belarusian fertiliser companies months before he was elected president, a parliamentary inquiry finds. The president later actively sought that Belarusian fertilisers would not be sanctioned, it said.

Ten Lithuanian companies each earned more than EUR 100 million pre-tax profit in 2022, reports business news website Verslo žinios (vz.lt).

Lithuania’s new Minister of National Defence Laurynas Kasčiūnas took oath in parliament on Tuesday, 26 March.

Numerous Lithuanian companies and organisations have joined the initiative 4 procentai (4 Percent), calling on the politicians to urgently agree on 4% GDP defence spending and encouraging the public to support the move.

EPSO-G Group, a group of energy transmission and exchange companies, has reported that its audited adjusted net profit for 2023 amounted to EUR 24 million and remained stable compared to EUR 24.7 million in 2022. The Group’s investment in projects to strengthen energy independence was a record of al...

Vilnius City District Court on Friday allowed tracking Šarūnas Stepukonis, former partner of BaltCap Infrastructure Fund, suspected of embezzling and gambling away about EUR 40 million of the fund’s money.

Over twenty organisations raising funds for Ukraine have voiced their support for MP Laurynas Kasčiūnas, current chair of the Seimas security committee, as next defence minister. The move comes after a number of mostly human rights NGOs sent a letter to the president asking not to approve the nomina...

Public confidence in President Gitanas Nausėda fell by four percentage points in the first months of this year, the latest poll commissioned by ELTA finds. Despite that, Nausėda remains the most trusted public figure in the country, with a rating of 20.9%.

Members of parliament have decided to dismiss Secretary General of the Seimas Modestas Gelbūda.

Eight large business sectors saw a fall in staff numbers at the beginning of March this year, compared to March 2023. Meanwhile, the number of employees in enterprises and organisations was still 0.7% higher at the beginning of March this year, reports Scorify, Vilnius-based data analysis company.

Two Social Democrat MPs have criticized the ruling parties for paying little attention to shelters and other civil safety issues in their efforts to boost national defence.

Enefit Green erected the first 230-metre wind turbines in Kelmė I wind farm (80 MW) located in western Lithuania. A total of 14 wind turbines will be installed, which will start producing about 270 gigawatt-hours of renewable energy per year, Enefit Green said in a press release.

The State Border Guard Service (VSAT) says 19 foreign nationals tried to cross into Lithuania from Belarus over the past day, 19 March.

President Gitanas Nausėda will decide later this week on the candidacy of MP Laurynas Kasčiūnas for the defence minister’s post. Incumbent Minister of National Defence Arvydas Anušauskas announced his resignation last Friday.

Latvia’s national airline airBaltic announces a new destination to Norway’s Oslo Torp will be offered from Vilnius as of the next winter season. The first flight is scheduled for 29 October 2024.