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.

The Lithuanian government is asking five multinational food manufacturers to explain why their food products supplied to the Lithuanian market differ in composition from the same branded goods sold elsewhere in the EU.

Blaring emergency sirens across Lithuania marked the start of a four-day civil protection exercise aimed at testing the authorities' readiness to respond to a potential nuclear accident at Belarus' Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant.

Among the 5.1 million deaths reported in the European Union (EU) in 2016, over 609 000 were due to coronary diseases, which include heart attacks. Nearly 90% of these deaths concerned people aged over 65 (532 400 deaths, 87% of the EU total), writes Eurostat.

The Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission (LRTK) decided on Wednesday to block access to nine online sites broadcasting TV programs.

A part of workers of Stokrotka, a Polish supermarket chain owned by Maxima Grupe, the biggest retail chain in the Baltics, are demanding higher wages. A protest action by Stokrotka's employees started in Lublin, where the company is headquartered, and then spread to other Polish cities, according the Dziennikwschodni.pl information.

This summer airBaltic introduced the aircraft Airbus A220-300 coloured with the Lithuanian three-color flag. On September 16, this aircraft, named “Vilnius”, landed for the first time at the Lithuanian capital airport.

GetJet Airlines has begun operations in Canada having recently signed a short-term contract with Sunwing Airlines. This marks the airline's first operations in the Canadian market, the Vilnius-based wet lease and charter carrier said in a press release.