SocietyRokiskio Suris (Rokiskis Cheese), one of Lithuania's biggest dairy companies, has completed talks with New Zealand's Fonterra on more than 7 million euros in investment through purchase of about a tenth of the company's shares. Lithuania's State Nuclear Power Safety Inspectorate (VATESI) has given a green light to the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), which is no longer operational, to start hot tests of the radioactive waste sorting and storage complex. On September 29th, a newly-formed Government's strategic committee announced about continuing to develop Lithuanian Airports' concession project. More than 100 reserve troops will Wednesday start a repeated training in the Lithuanian army's Grand Duchess Birute Uhlan Battalion. The problem of the dismantled Renge railway stretch between Mazeikiai, northern Lithuania, and the Latvian city of Renge can be solved by rebuilding the line, says the European Union's (EU) Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, adding that there are other solutions, as well. The usage of Lithuanian mobile connection data abroad continued growing in August 2017, shows data from the three largest mobile operators. The growth was a result of users taking vacations abroad, as well as the new roaming regulation rules in effect in the European Union (EU) since mid-June that unified prices for services on domestic and foreign markets. The Lithuanian Supreme Administrative Court has upheld the Competition Council's decision to block a deal between the Finnish-owned malt producer Viking Malt and Maltosa, a Svencioneliai-based malting company that is indirectly owned by businessman Vilius Kaikaris. The court dismissed Viking Malt's appeal in a final ruling on Oct. 3. Identifying endocrine disruptors: Parliament blocks plans exempting some pesticides2017-10-08, 12:38Parliament blocked an EU Commission proposal which would have exempted some chemicals in pesticides from being identified as endocrine disruptors, on Wednesday. Finland's travel agency Timetravels will open a client service center in Lithuania's second city Kaunas and hire about 30 specialists in the next two years. On 5 October in Berlin, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius and Germany’s Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs Sigmar Gabriel signed an agreement on exhibiting in Lithuania the Act of Reinstating Independence of Lithuania of 16 February. The ceremony was attended by the Professor Liudas Mažylis, who discovered the document in the Political Archive of the Federal Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt) of Germany. Pursuant to this agreement, the document will be exhibited in Lithuania for five years. |
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