SocietyParliamentarians meet in their committees this week, and on Wednesday in plenary, to discuss Commission president Juncker's investment plan, anti-terrorism measures and the international climate agreement. Meanwhile German and Italian finance ministers Wolfgang Schäuble and Pier Carlo Padoan will review rules for economic governance in the Parliament, and president Martin Schulz will take part in the International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Prague. NATO commanders give green light for creation of rapid-response force bases in Baltics2015-01-25, 13:46NATO commanders have given the green-light for the creation of rapid-response force command and control centers in the Baltics and three other countries, National Armed Forces Commander Raimonds Graube confirmed. On Wednesday, 21 January, Vilnius City Municipality Council deliberated on and approved the city's budget for 2015. Lithuania is approaching the target established in the waste management plan to recycle or reuse at least 45% of municipal waste. In 2014, a total of 3.8 million passengers used the services of Lithuania's three airports in Vilnius, Kaunas and Palanga, or by 9.1% more than in 2013. Partly Estonian investors-owned renewable energy producer Nelja Energia invests EUR 115 million in developing a 60 MW wind farm in Silute. In 2014, Lithuanian Customs pulled contraband cigarettes from funeral wreaths, potato sacks2015-01-20, 13:44According to preliminary data, in 2014 the officers of the Lithuanian Customs seized smuggled and illegally carried goods worth over EUR 15 million. The amount of prevented damage to the state exceeds EUR 10 million euros, the Lithuanian Customs said in a report. Andriejus Stancikas, chairman of the Chamber of Agriculture of the Republic of Lithuania, is convinced that the European Union's (EU) decision to allow member-states to decide on growing GMO crops independently is not material: more resilient and cheaper GMO crops will eventually push out traditional crops anyway. Airline Air Lituanica carried over 132,000 passengers in 2014, and over 182,000 passengers since it started operating. In 2015, it plans to carry over 200,000 passengers and expand the geography of its flights. Lithuania's delegation at Berlin International Green Week 2015, an important international trade fair held annually in Berlin, is going to focus on finding new markets. |
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