A senior European Commission official says that a Rail Baltica spur from Kaunas to Vilnius legally could not become part of the European-standard gauge railway until 2023, but Lithuania could use the EU's regional support to finance the project estimated to cost 850 million euros.

EP negotiators and the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the EU agreed on substantial rules for audiovisual media services, including digital platforms, on Thursday evening.

On March 23 2018, the presentation of the projects of the Local Employment Initiatives organized by the Vilnius Territorial Labour Office took place in Vilnius District, where the projects and their results completed in 2017 were presented.

On March 20, the head of the Vilnius Frontier Team from State Border Guard Service under the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Lithuania and a community official visited the Vilnius District Municipality.

Part of illegal trade in alcohol in Lithuania is going online after the country's government further restricted access to alcohol, Kestutis Kupsys, head of public institution Lithuanian Without Shadow.

The scale of corruption has barely changed in Lithuania in recent years, and Lithuania ranked 22nd among 55 countries in terms of corruption.

Lithuanian property developers may freeze investments worth around 175 million euros if the parliament levies an additional charge for projects planned on land leased from the state, the business daily Verslo Zinios reported on April 24th.

A new EU regulation aims to create more rigorous checks on the automotive sectors with stricter requirements for emission tests and heavy fines for cheating companies.

Dutch metal processing company Focus Fabrication Group plans to build a 3,800 square meter metal processing plant in the Lithuanian port of Klaipeda by the middle of 2019, the Verslo Zinios business daily writes.