As part of Lithuania's efforts to negotiate more favorable EU funding for the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) closure, Energy Minister Zygimantas Vaiciunas is starting a two-day visit to Frankfurt to brief German politicians on the progress in decommissioning the facility.

Tamro, the owner Benu pharmacy chains in Latvia and Lithuania, posted EUR 109.903 mln in consolidated revenue in the past fiscal year ending in January, up 22.9% from EUR 89.433 mln.

As Lithuanian construction companies are experiencing a growing lack of qualified specialists, vacant job are more and more often filled by Ukrainians.

Lithuanian gambling firms posted 46.026 mln euros in revenue in the first half of 2018, down 1.9% from 46.916 mln euros a year ago.

76% of Lithuanian households had personal computers and 78% had internet access in Lithuania in the first quarter, up 3 percentage points from the same period last year, referring to the latest figures from Statistics Lithuania.

Lithuanian farmers have received the final EU payouts in compensation for the last year's downpours. The final amount of over 2 mln euros was paid out on Friday, August 17, 2018.

Lithuania's state-run railway company Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways) will take cargo of Orlen Lietuva, the oil processing company in Lithuania, owned by Poland's Orlen, to Poland.

Inflation and related growth in living standards were behind a rise in people living below the at-risk-of-poverty threshold in Lithuania last year.

More people came to Lithuania than left in July, a third month in a row, the latest figures from Statistics Lithuania show.

Lithuania's state-run energy holding Lietuvos Energija (Lithuanian Energy) wants to buy 100-percent stakes in companies Vejo Vatas and Vejo Gusis, from Lithuania's Stemma Group, a company controlled by the family of Martinas Gusiatinas, a former shareholder of Klaipedos Smelte, one of the largest cargo handling companies at the port of Klaipeda.