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.

On 8 September, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius visited the office of the Lithuanian Relief Organisation of the Order of Malta, where he met with the Grand Hospitaller of the Sovereign Order of Malta Dominique Prince de La Rochefoucauld-Montbel and the leadership of the Lithuanian Relief Organisation of the Order of Malta.

Vilnius Airport and Unipark offer passengers a new service called BLIC. It is not just car parking in a parking lot next to the passenger terminal; the service also offers quick passenger screening and car washing, that is, a clean car will wait for its driver to return from the trip. The integrated service is provided by the company Unipark.

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September 6 saw Vilnius Municipality take an important step in the development of a multipurpose sports complex in Šeškinė by announcing a public tender open to Lithuanian and foreign private investors.

Preparation for the reconstruction of runway at Vilnius Airport is gaining momentum. The temporary infrastructure has already been designed and will be installed in Kaunas Airport next summer when for 35 days in July and August most passengers and flights from the capital city will be moved here.