Participating in the informal Ecofin meeting held on 7-8 September in Vienna, Vitas Vasiliauskas, Chairman of the Board of the Bank of Lithuania, shared Lithuania’s experience in crypto assets regulation. Discussions on the importance of regulating this sector at the EU level have been initiated by Austria, which currently holds the Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

Coinciding with the European Heritage Days celebrations, UNESCO will launch the first-ever web platform dedicated to World Heritage and sustainable travel. Supported by the European Union, the platform features 34 selected World Heritage sites spread across 19 European Union countries, and has been developed in collaboration with National Geographic.

Lithuania's state-owned Road and Transport Research Institute is buying a special vehicle outfitted with laboratory equipment designed to inspect road conditions from Sweden's Ramboll Sverige under a contract worth almost 800,000 euros.

CO2 emissions from new cars should be cut by 45% by 2030 and market uptake of zero - and low- emission vehicles should accelerate, said committee MEPs on Monday.

If you’re aged between 17 and 30 and would like help make society a little better, register with the European Solidarity Corps.

Lithuanian dairy company Zemaitijos Pienas has sold a 32% stake in Latvia’s food wholesaler Muizas Piens, according to the Lithuanian company’s statement to Nasdaq Vilnius.

Pope Francis will make a state and apostolic visit to Lithuania on September 22-23 at the invitation of President Dalia Grybauskaitė, the Catholic Church and the people of Lithuania.

The Bank of Lithuania has been selected as the winner of the first Catalyst Award in the FinTech & RegTech Global Awards 2018 organised by Central Banking, reported Bank of Lithuania press service.

An ageing workforce and new occupational health risks mean long-term sickness absence is on the rise and MEPs want action to get people back to work.

A new name – that of George Walker Bush – has been entered onto the list of Vilnius city citizens of honour. In order to honour the 43th US President, the city Council decided to award to him the name of a Vilnius citizen of honour. This year is 16 years since the first and until now the only visit of a US President in Vilnius. There is a commemoration plate on the wall of the Vilnius City Hall with particularly significant and inspiring words spoken then by George W. Bush “Anyone who would choose Lithuania as an enemy has also made an enemy of the United States of America”.