Heads of the national film institutions of the three Baltic states have renewed a cooperation agreement during the Trieste film festival, agreeing on 12 joint international film projects this year and setting up a joint Baltic prize.

Expansion of the main training grounds of the Lithuanian Armed Forces will result in a double area of the facilities by 2022, the Defense Ministry said on January 26th.

Hotels and other tourism accommodation establishments in Lithuania in 2017 attracted more guests than those in Latvia and Estonia, however, the biggest growth was reported in Latvia, figures from the EU statistics office Eurostat showed on Wednesday.

The United Arab Emirates has expanded the list of Lithuanian food product imports to include bovine animals, birds, chicks, hatching eggs and fodder, the Lithuanian State Food and Veterinary Service said.

The pace of emigration from Lithuania should start declining this year, with the number of returning Lithuanians and arriving foreigners should remain stable, says Swedbank analyst Nerijus Maciulis, adding that the net emigration should hit the lowest level since 2000.

Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways) has submitted to the European Commission a plan for rebuilding a dismantled railway track from Mazeikiai, a town in northwestern Lithuania where Orlen Lietuva's crude refinery is located, to Renge, in Latvia, by the end of 2019.

Lithuanian airports served a total of 5.246 million passengers in 2017, which is a rise by 9.6% from 2016.

Lithuania's "white list" aimed at making it easier to hire workers from third countries has already drawn considerable interest from road haulers, but builders want a different instrument, the business daily Verslo Zinios reported on Friday.

MEPs put children at the forefront of their concerns on Thursday when adopting their proposals to change EU laws on resolving international divorce disputes.

New EU rules on how, where and when fish can be caught, were voted on Tuesday. MEPs inserted an amendment to ban the use of pulsed electric current for fishing.