A Syrian family of five arrived in Lithuania from Turkey in early hours of Monday under the European Union's (EU) resettlement program.

How do people become radicalised and what can be done to prevent it? These were some of the issues dealt with during a debate in the European Parliament on 19 April which Sakharov Prize Laureate Taslima Nasreen, MEP Syed Kamall and journalist Rudi Vranckx tried to address. The debate was organised by the Parliament and non-governmental organisation People in Need as part of the One World Film Festival in Brussels.

Ways to unleash the full potential of the single market to the benefit of consumers, employees and businesses, in particular start-ups, are proposed in a report voted by Internal Market Committee MEPs on Thursday. Priorities include eliminating unjustified barriers to trade, helping SMEs and start-ups to scale up their activities, reforming VAT rules, developing legislative tools to foster the sharing economy and building a strong culture of compliance and enforcement.

The value of investment deals in the segment of commercial real estate in the Lithuanian capital last year was still half of the value of Tallinn and 3-4 times less than the value in capitals of Central and Eastern European countries, Verslo Zinios business daily said.

Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways) handled a total of 11.505 million tons of freight during the first three months of the year 2016, up 2.3% year-on-year, preliminary figures from Statistics Lithuania showed on April 21st.

Exports of pork grown in Lithuania is on the rise, however, prices remain somewhat lower.

Lithuania's parliament on April 19th gave a go-ahead of more overtime hours in the debate on the new Labor Code.

Illegal buildings in the Vilnius Roma settlement will be torn down immediately after a family moves out, the Lithuanian capital's Vice-Mayor Gintautas Paluckas says, adding that the municipality has envisaged money for the purpose.

Member states should declare a moratorium on winter heating disconnections, so that no household can be cut off from energy in the cold, says a European Parliament resolution voted on Thursday. To step up the fight against poverty in the EU by reducing household energy costs, MEPs call for more support for poor families and further investment in energy efficiency projects to reduce utility bills.

Lietuvos Oro Uostai (Lithuanian Airports), a state-owned company that manages Lithuania's three international airports, netted a profit of 2.1 million euros in 2015, up by 74% from 2014.