Lithuania's unemployment level was 8.7% in early January 2018, up by 1 percentage points month-on-month and by 0.2 percentage points year-on-year, the Labor Exchange said on Monday.

Vilnius is the first city in the Baltic States and the entire East-Central Europe region, which has become a full-fledged member of the Startup City Alliance Europe (SCALE). The application of “Go Vilnius” for the membership of Vilnius city was approved in the meeting of the alliance held in Kiev.

The European Parliament is launching the Multimedia Centre, a single platform for audiovisual material. The Multimedia Centre will replace the current Audiovisual Website.

The state-run railway company Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, LG) payed Friday the fine of nearly 28 million euros imposed by the European Commission (EC) for the dismantled railway stretch to Renge, Latvia, the company's CEO Mantas Bartuska confirmed.

The mass protest action held in Vilnius on Thursday over salaries of health professionals and other reforms in the health care sector did not turn into a political event, says Lithuania's Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis.

The Lithuanian electricity transmission network maintained by Litgrid is among the most reliable in the region, with 11 cases of power transmission interruptions reported in 2016.

The Lithuanian port of Klaipeda set a new cargo handling record in 2017 – reloading nearly 43 million tons of freight, which is an increase of 2016 results by over 7%.

Itaka Holdings, the biggest tour operator in Poland, does not give up its plans to expand to Lithuania, regardless of the failed purchase of one of the country's largest travel organizers Novaturas in 2017.

Unlawful labor makes a rather significant share of shadow economy in Lithuania, and the indicator is fueled by unlawful employment of foreigners in the country. Tricky hiring conditions are currently one of the business obstacles, which is believed to go away after simplification of the process, Lietuvos Zinios daily said on Friday.

Statistics Lithuania informs that in November 2017, compared to October, construction input prices increased by 0.4%. The greatest influence on the overall price change was made by a 1.2% increase in wages and salaries, as well as by a 0.1% increase in prices for construction materials and products.