SocietyRyanair, Europe's favourite low fares airline, today, 18 July, celebrated its 15th millionth passenger to/from the three Baltic countries – Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania. The lucky passenger was Ms Sima Vaskelyte who was on her way to Bremen. A celebration was held at Vilnius airport where Ms Vaskelyte was presented with a Ryanair flight voucher from Vilnius to a destination of her choice and cupcakes were served to all passengers departing on a Ryanair flight this morning. The Ministry of National Defence is beginning a mechanisation programme to implement the National Defence System Development Programme 2014-2023 approved by the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania and to the end of strengthening and modernising the Lithuanian Land Force. In first phase of the programme two battalions of the Mechanised Infantry Brigade (MIB) Iron Wolf will be equipped with modern wheeled infantry fighting vehicles till 2020. Recent elections for the European Parliament have shown that people in the EU were increasingly worried about policy-making while demanding more effective approaches. Regional Policy is one of the areas where the EU is reaching out to citizens. European regions hold the key to the EU's future prosperity: the new Regional Policy is now better equipped to help European regions become more competitive. The low-cost airline Ryanair carried its 15-millionth passenger on flights to/from the Baltic States today. 20 years passed since Lithuanian film was last shown in one of the most prominent film events, Locarno International Film Festival (Festival del film Locarno). In Vilnius, the representatives of national road administration directorate from Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia signed the Memorandum of Understanding and Intentions in the field of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) related to the national traffic management systems and development of the Via Baltica road corridor. Lithuania's Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius introduced to Parliament primary tasks of the Cabinet. He promised that pensions, social benefits and public sector salaries will be increased starting the year 2015. Ryanair, Europe's favourite low fares airline, today (14 July) launched its brand new app making it even easier for customers to browse, book, check-in, board and fly on Europe's lowest airfares. On 11 July 2014, having received an ascent of the Board of Directors, Lithuanian Amber Grid signed contracts on contract works of the construction of gas pipeline Klaipeda-Kursenai (in the implementation of the project of enhancing capacities of gas pipeline Klaipeda-Kiemenai) and the purchase of pipes necessary for the construction. Call for local, regional and national leaders to take advantage of new EU broadband funding and support2014-07-13, 16:51the European Commission launches its "Connected Communities" initiative – an umbrella for several systems designed to connect towns, cities, local broadband partnerships and operators to the advice they need to access finance and develop tailored business models for bringing fast broadband to their community. |
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