During the first eight months of 2018, Latvian gasoline imports dropped 4% from the respective period a year ago, while diesel fuel imports fell 11.3%, according to the Central Statistical Bureau.

The Lithuanian State Border Guard Service (VSAT) has warned of possible temporary traffic restrictions at the Medininkai checkpoint due to road repairs in Belarus on the other side of the border.

Amid an acute shortage of professional builders in Lithuania, business people expect an increasing number of third-country nationals to come to the country for work.

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.