A team from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have praised Lithuania for its active engagement in strengthening the global nuclear safety regime, transparent and open cooperation with experts, and participation in international support programs.

During the first quarter of the year Lithuanian airports handled 17% more passengers compared to the same period last year. In January, February and March 914,000 passengers travelled through Vilnius, Kaunas and Palanga airports. The passenger traffic showed a nearly identical growth in all three Lithuanian airports.

Maxima Grupe (Maxima Group), the operator of the largest retail chain in the Baltic countries, is strengthening its position in Bulgaria – it intends to take over 12 stores of the German-capital retail chain Penny that is leaving the market.

Lithuania is discussing its energy strategy with Sweden's energy experts to ensure that the visions of the two countries, whose power grinds are linked by the NordBalt cable, do not differ from one another, Lithuanian Energy Minister Rokas Masiulis said.

Germany's DB Cargo, Europe's largest rail freight company, and Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways) have signed a freight forwarding agreement.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė greeted and took a closer look at the cutting-edge U.S. F-22 Raptor fighter jets which landed at the Lithuanian Air Force Base in Zokniai. The stealthy warplanes have touched down in Lithuania for the first time. This is one of the world’s most advanced military aircraft which is impossible to detect on radar.

A week until the end of annual declaration of residents' income and properties, about 900,000 Lithuanian residents have already registered their income, with the State Tax Inspectorate still waiting for information from about 20% of the population about their income.

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.