The European Commission has approved 150 million euros in support for a 345-million-euro biomass and waste-fired cogeneration plant that the state energy group Lietuvos Energija (Lithuanian Energy) is building in Vilnius.

Lithuania rose three notches to number fifteen, the highest ranking among the three Baltic countries, in the Fraser Institute's latest Economic Freedom of the World report.

Latvia’s airBaltic plane Bombardier Q400 NextGen flying from Riga to Zurich on Saturday was forced to return to the Riga airport and make an emergency landing, said airBaltic spokesman Janis Vanags.

The Lithuania state is planning to exercise the jurisdictional immunity it is entitled to under international law in a lawsuit brought against it by Vladimir Antonov, a former majority shareholder of the collapsed Lithuanian bank Snoras, which means that it does not agree to the dispute being heard by a Moscow court.

UAB Merko bustas, a company of the listed Estonian construction group AS Merko Ehitus, has entered into a preliminary sales and purchase agreement with UAB Hekon, subsidiary of Orbis S.A., to sell upon completion the Ibis hotel building and parking premises to be built on the land plot owned by UAB Merko bustas in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius.

A senior executive of Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, or LG) says that Orlen Lietuva has asked for tens of mlns of euros worth of discounts on rail freight rates, noting that this could be the price for Poland's position not to hamper Lithuania's strategic energy projects, particularly the Baltic grids' synchronization with the Western European system.

Three tourists from Lithuania incurred injuries when a bus capsized en route to an airport in Barcelona, Spain, in early hours of Wednesday.

Shareholders of the so-called Vilniaus Prekyba (VP) Group, one of Lithuania's biggest business groups, were summoned to the Vilnius Regional Tax Inspectorate on Monday in connection with a probe conducted by Estonia's tax authorities, representatives of Mindaugas Marcinkevicius, a minority shareholder.

The European Parliament should give its consent to the ratification of the 2015 Paris agreement on climate change, recommended Environment Committee MEPs on Thursday. They also urged all EU member states to conclude the ratification process, to ensure its rapid entry into force. In a separate resolution, they also called on the EU to upgrade its emission reduction pledges, so as to close the gap between the individual targets agreed by the Parties and the Paris goals.

According to a 2015 Eurostat report by the European Commission, Vilnius is happiest capital city in the European Union with 98 percent of residents declaring themselves satisfied with life in the Lithuanian capital.