The Lithuanian Migration Department in Vilnius has on Monday eliminated live queues for foreigners to come and fill out applications for national visas without prior registration.

Riga. The Latvian airline airBaltic has received the 2018 ATW Airline Industry Achievement Award as the Market Leader of the Year. ATW 44th annual Airline Industry Achievement Awards are the most coveted honour an airline or individual can receive to recognize excellence in the air transport industry.

Animal testing of cosmetics is already banned in the EU and now MEPs want the ban extended to the rest of the world.

Lithuanian law-enforcement officials conducting a probe into suspected corruption at one of the country's largest hospitals on Wednesday visited Atea, a company of the Norwegian-owned IT solutions group Atea Baltic.

Lithuania failed to improve its position in the latest Corruption Perception Index released by Transparency International on February 21st. Lithuania ranked 38th out of 180 countries surveyed in the annual index, unchanged from last year. This puts Lithuania ahead of Latvia, but behind Poland and Estonia. "This year's results show that experts and businesses do not assess corruption reduction efforts in advance," Sergejus Muravjovas, the head of the Lithuanian office of Transparency International, said in a press release.

The Lithuanian law-enforcement said on February 21st it was conducting a probe into large-scale corruption allegations in the Vilnius University's Santaros Clinic.

Vilnius on Monday is filing a counterclaim against France's Veolia and its local subsidiary Vilniaus Energija (Vilnius Energy), whose 15-year lease on the Lithuanian capital's heating system ended last April.

The suicide rate in Lithuania is on a consistent decline, with a triple increase reported in the number of visits to psychologists in state clinics over the past few years.

Swedish Crown Princess Victoria has opened a global exposition on sustainable development in Vilnius.

Novaturas, Lithuania's tour organizer operated by Enterprise Investors, one of the largest private equity firms in Central and Eastern Europe, posted 141.1 million euros in consolidated revenue in 2017, up by 40%, from 101.5 million euros, year-on-year.