Ten Lithuanian meat processing companies have been given the green light for exporting chilled and frozen beef and pork and beef and pork products.

The number of new cars sold in the countries of the European Union in June, 2018, was approximately 1.6 mln, which is 5.2% more than the year before, while the number of cars sold in Lithuania in the first six months of the year was up 24.6% on year.

Lithuania is seeking to secure all necessary funding for the dismantling of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant's reactors and the government is now asking the European Commission for more funds to ensure that works are not interrupted during the switchover from one EU budget period to another, Energy Minister Zygimantas Vaiciunas said on Tuesday.

Lithuanian-owned agricultural product trade company Agrorodeo has for the first time sold grain to Saudi Arabia, marking the first direct grain export sale to the Middle Eastern country by a Baltic company.

Liana Ruokytė-Jonsson, The Minister of Culture, confirmed that in the year 2020 Trakai will be the cultural capital of Lithuania, in year 2021 - Neringa and in 2022 - Alytus.

A new certification framework for connected devices, together with a stronger role for the EU Cybersecurity Agency, were backed by Industry Committee MEPs on Tuesday.

In response to requests by citizens, the European Parliament, Lithuania and Finland, the European Commission launches public consultation on daylight saving time. The Commission has decided to assess the current EU summer time arrangements and evaluate whether or not the rules should be changed.

Kravčiūnai is the most essential place of the national remembrance of Poles in the Vilnius region. The battle fought here in Kravčiūnai, on July 13th 1944, was the biggest battle between the Polish Home Army and the Nazi German occupiers of Vilnius.

Lithuania's annual Mission Siberia expedition, organized annually to tend to the burial cites of Lithuanian deportees in Russia, will go to Kazakhstan this year after Russia barred entry to the mission's participants, the Lithuanian national radio Lietuvos Radijas said on Monday.