US experts have on Monday started inspecting Lithuania's egg producer Baltic Egg Production, part of Lithuania's Viciunu Grupe business group, willing to export eggs and their products.

Precisely 5 years have passed since the time when on 1 July 2014, the merger of all the Lithuanian airports into one company – Lithuanian Airports – was announced. The results show that the unification of Vilnius, Kaunas and Palanga Airports has proven successful: from the merger up to now, Lithuanian Airports calculate a profit (EBITDA) which has increased by as many as 235 percent, continually rising return on property and million dividends to the state that have grown each year.

Vilnius Airport prepares for an important stage of reconstruction - reconstruction of a part of the apron located in the Northern part of the airport has been planned. The upgrading of the apron will help ensure safety of flights, more convenient movement and more effective parking of aircrafts at the airport; also, more advanced aircraft service infrastructure will be installed, as well as greater attention will be paid to environmental protection.

More than 260 architectural ideas from all over the world have been received by the capital city municipality so far, after it announced an international architectural design competition for a National Concert Hall on Tauras Hill. A record number of architectural projects were received up to 2 July in the terms of the contests of this type. Ideas came from the USA, South Africa, China, India, Spain, Libya, Ukraine and other countries. This is the first contest in the Baltic region organised with the International Union of Architects.

Gas supply via a gas pipeline to Lithuania from Belarus has been halted on Monday as Belarus started repairing a gas main in its territory.

Registered unemployment stood at 8 percent last month in Lithuania, up 0.1 percentage points from May but down 0.3% from June, 2018, the latest figures from the country's Employment Service showed on Monday.

A detained ship belonging to a Russian company is set to be auctioned off in Lithuania after standing in the port of Klaipeda for the past couple of years.

The total number of flights in Lithuania's air space in the first half of this year was fairly the same as it was a year ago.

This summer the most popular leisure destinations among airBaltic passengers are Barcelona, Tbilisi and Milan. For the summer months, the largest number of reservations have been made for flights to such cities as Tallinn, St. Petersburg and Helsinki, BC learned from airBaltic.

The Seimas has extended the list of memorable days by adding 2nd August as a day of remembrance of the Roma genocide.