The leadership of Lithuania's national defense system has decided to buy six American Black Hawk helicopters for around 300 mln euros.

A shift to a less-polluting economy requires significant investment. The EU wants to attract more private money as public funds are insufficient.

Hackers have sent out a fake press release claiming to be from the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry and alleging that President Gitanas Nauseda has asked the United States to build a military base in Lithuania and relocate nuclear weapons to the country.

Lithuania is among the twelve EU Member Stated invited by the European Commission (EC) and the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) to take part in the EU Road Safety Exchange project. This was announced at a high-level meeting on road safety held in Brussels by the Commission's Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport.

As 2019 is slowly coming to an end, Lithuanian Airports are already calculating the results obtained during the previous period – after the high number of achievements during the first half of the year, all aviation indicators continue to rise.

The Latvian national air carrier airBaltic is planning to establish a base in Estonia in the future, after which flights departing from Tallinn would be serviced by Estonian teams.

MEPs opposed the EU Commission plans to authorise imports of products containing three glyphosate and glufosinate ammonium-resistant GMOs, in non-binding resolutions on Thursday.

The expected effects of a recent WTO decision to allow heavy US tariffs on European goods are up for a debate with Commissioner Cecilia Malmström on Wednesday.

Euro NCAP publishes the safety ratings of four vehicles. Two BMW's - the 1 Series and the 3 Series – both achieve a maximum five-star rating. The Jeep Cherokee and the Peugeot 208 settle for four stars apiece, announced Euro NCAP in a press release.

Gelezinkelio Tiesimo Centras (GTC), the railway track construction, repair and maintenance subsidiary of Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways), says competition will affect its performance results, but it still expects to win a large part of contracts.