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Energy Minister Dainius Kreivys says further steps to synchronise Baltic power grids with Western Europe and the adoption of the national energy independence strategy are major tasks for Lithuania’s energy sector in 2024.

Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė on Wednesday attended an event to mark the launch of all four battery storage parks with a combined capacity of 200 MW in Lithuania.

Small salaries, nepotism, different pay for men and women for the same job – when talking about Lithuania’s labour market, such comments are common. Employee selection experts have noticed that Lithuania as an employer definitely has room for improvement, and that it is especially difficult to catch...

On Thursday, Lithuania is hosting the largest startup event in the Baltics – Startup Fair Adapt 2023.

Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian Prime Ministers Ingrida Šimonytė, Krišjānis Kariņš and Kaja Kallas have signed a joint declaration committing to synchronising Baltic electricity networks with the European grid in February 2025 at the latest.

An important stage of territorial planning of the European gauge railway Rail Baltica is coming to an end – specific territories, parcels of land and their parts have been identified, which the Rail Baltica railway line will cross on the section from Jiesia (Kaunas) to the Polish border, the Ministr...

The Seimas on Thursday passed a law to introduce faster synchronisation of Lithuania’s power grid with West Europe.

In order to improve communication between Lithuania and Poland in a coordinated manner, Lithuanian Deputy Minister of Transport and Communications Julius Skačkauskas and Polish Deputy Minister of Infrastructure Rafal Weber discussed in Marijampolė the modernisation of Via Baltica highway and improve...

With the outbreak of World War II, Germany started a coherent and deliberate campaign of erasing Poland from the map of Europe. The Polish nation was to be deprived of its intellectual elites, identity, and sovereignty. Destruction and plundering did not spare Polish culture. Literature, music, film...

In fear of new EU restrictions, Lithuanian haulage companies threaten to relocate their businesses to Poland or other countries to be closer to their key markets in Western Europe.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki called for unity while discussing the future EU budget during his recent visit to Lithuania, and also said that Western Europe wants to grow at the expense of its eastern neighbors.

One of the things Lithuania is best known for is the laser industry. While perhaps not at the very pinnacle of the industry, the country does not compare all too poorly against highly developed states such as the USA, Germany, France, China and others. And at the same time the industry shows no sign...

The volume of official emigration from Lithuania has declined – the number of declared emigrations was down by nearly 500 in May from April, Statistics Lithuania said.