The NordBalt power interconnection between Lithuania and Sweden went offline on Tuesday evening for a few hours due to an unknown reason.

The Commission has today adopted stricter exemption conditions for the operation of the OPAL gas pipeline. The Commission wants to ensure properly functioning liquid and competitive gas markets in Europe, and today's decision follows these guidelines.

The EU needs a better coordinated policy on volunteering, to give volunteers a proper legal status and help them join programmes, say MEPs in a resolution voted on Thursday. Almost 100 million EU citizens have taken part as volunteers in education, culture or arts, sport events, humanitarian and development aid work. Young people should take advantage of volunteering schemes to develop skills and acquire experience that helps them to find jobs afterwards, stresses the text.

The head of the Lithuanian dairy association Pieno Centras has denied the myth that Lithuanian dairy products can enter the Russian market via Belarus.

The innovation cluster “Airport Inno Lab”, which creates smart transport systems and information and communication technologies in the airport sphere, plans to increase the scope of innovative solutions and product development. “Airport Inno Lab” seeks to receive an investment of EUR 100 thousand from the European Union structural funds (EU SF).

Hungary's low-cost airline Wizz Air is planning to launch flights between Vilnius and the Polish capital of Warsaw fall of 2017, informs airline.

On 18 – 20 October, Lieutenant General Manfred Hofmann, the Commander Multinational Corps Northeast, chaired 3rd Conference with NATO Force Integration Units’ Commanders. The seminar was held in Vilnius and attended by a number of military dignitaries including General Salvatore Farina, the Commander Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum (JFCBS).

As from now, Vilnius Airport focuses even more on passengers travelling with young children. The marking of a family queue at the Airport has already been changed, while parents are offered functional solutions that will make travelling with children easier.

The NordBalt power interconnection between Lithuania and Sweden is back in service on Friday after an outage of several hours due to unknown reasons.

A Vilnius court has slashed the fine imposed by the competition watchdog for Vilniaus Energija (Vilnius Energy), Lithuania's biggest district heating supplier controlled by France's Veolia, by nearly 2 mln euros to 17.104 mln euros. The fine for Estonia-registered biofuel supplier First Opportunity (formerly Bionovus) has been reduced by 352,900 euros to 3.176 mln euros.