Lithuanians with special merits to the State of Lithuania will be able to have dual citizenship after the country's parliament on Tuesday adopted necessary amendments to the Law on Citizenship.

The Riga Regional Court today concluded review of the first in a series of lawsuits filed by victims of Zolitude tragedy, ordering Maxima Latvija and Homburg Zolitude to pay two plaintiffs a total of EUR 300,000 in compensation.

Snoras' bankruptcy administrator is selling certain assets of the bankrupt Lithuanian bank, such as electronic devices and hardware, via eBay.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė, currently on a working visit to Brussels, together with the leaders of other EU countries discussed the reform of the Economic and Monetary Union and further actions to strengthen the EU's single market and energy union.

Finance Minister Rimantas Sadzius says that the process of Lithuania's accession to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has reached the stage of direct negotiations, which is a major achievement for the country.

As Lithuania attracts international service centres one after another, its capital city Vilnius is also seen taking a regional leadership role in the storage of European companies' data.

Builders have finished work on a 45,000 square meter logistics center of the Lithuanian retailer Maxima to the south of Tallinn and the first batches of goods are expected to be delivered from the new facility to stores in January 2016.

Lithuania will not face major problems in connection to the Paris agreement on reduction of climate change effects, says Environment Minister Kestutis Treciokas.

Lithuania's bankrupt bank Snoras will get back most of the 5 million pounds (EUR 6.9 mln) it paid to a court in London as security for costs when it took action against its former owners, Vladimir Antonov and Raimondas Baranauskas.