Lithuanian Finance Minister Vilius Sapoka has sacked Dainoras Bradauskas, head of the State Tax Inspectorate (STI), after a commission set up by the ministry recommended firing him for corrupt activities and gross official misconduct.

Vilnius, 14 January 2017 – Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe, today launches another exciting route from its Vilnius base. The newest WIZZ service connects the Lithuanian capital with Grenoble in France and, starting today, will operate on Saturdays. Seats on the route are on sale from EUR 19.99* on wizzair.com.

Arvi Kalakutai, a turkey meat product manufacturing and trade arm of Arvi ir Ko, a Lithuanian business group owned by Vidmantas Kucinskas, has launched a 30-million-euro complex in Belarus.

Latvia's road construction company A.C.B., jointly with Lithuania's building firm Autokausta, is to reconstruct the Vilnius airport's runway for 18.713 mln euros.

Prices in the Lithuanian electricity market remained almost unchanged last week from the previous week thanks to increased wind power output and Swedish electricity imports.

The European Commission is taking action to promote Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) in the EU.

The European Union's (EU) Court of Justice has been asked to specify whether the claim filed by bankrupt company flyLAL-Lithuanian Airlines (flyLAL) against Latvia's Air Baltic and the Riga Airport can be heard in Lithuanian courts.

Kaunas' Modernist architecture of the interwar period on Tuesday was included into UNESCO's World Heritage Tentative List.

On 11 January, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius met with the U.S. Ambassador to Lithuania Anne Hall and the President of the American-Lithuanian Business Council (ALBC) Eric Stewart, and discussed development opportunities for economic relations between Lithuania and the United States of America.

On January 10 rotational troops of the Czech Armed Forces will arrive in Lithuania, Šeštokai, by railway. Roughly 150 Czech soldiers with designated weaponry and roughly 30 military vehicles will train in joint exercises with Lithuanian soldiers until mid-March. This is the first time Czech rotational forces are deployed for several months of training in Lithuania.