Gintautas Kanapeckas was appointed on Wednesday as chief executive officer of Achemos Grupe (Achema Group), one of Lithuania's biggest business conglomerates, replacing Linas Sabaliauskas, who was fired after less than a year in the job.

Lithuania's budget for 2019 will be socially responsible and will help improve the quality of life for a large part of the population, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Tuesday.

The Commission has put forward an action plan to develop a sustainable and circular bioeconomy that serves Europe's society, environment and economy.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with members of ENEX, an association of the world’s leading commercial TV broadcasters, who gathered in Vilnius for their annual general assembly. This is the biggest international media event of the kind in Lithuania.

The Lithuanian-Swedish power cable NordBalt has come online on Thursday following less than two months of repairs.

The power transmission operators from the Baltic states are due on Wednesday to submit an official application to the European Commission for the funding of the first stage of the synchronization of the Baltic states' power systems with that of continental Europe.

The Estonian Banking Association expects to advance cooperation among banks and to have a common network of automated teller machines (ATMs) established across Estonia and eventually across the Baltic countries.

Hungarian low-cost air company Wizz Air has won a dispute with Lithuanian travel agency Zigzag Travel over the use of the wizzair.lt and wizzair-skrydziai.lt domain names.

The construction of a section of the European gauge railway project Rail Baltic has been finished in Kaunas District, central Lithuania. The strip will be used by freight trains in the future.

The Lithuanian Customs Criminal Service (CCS) suspects that shadow raw tobacco processing plants are being set up in the country to supply illegal tobacco to factories across Europe.