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.

Lithuania this month ranks 80th in the world in terms of gold holdings, unchanged from November.

One airport would be enough for Lithuania, given the number of the country's inhabitants, CEO of Lithuania's airport operator Lietuvos Oro Uostai (Lithuanian Airports) has said, adding that it is convenient to have three airports in the country but it is a luxury.

Finland and Ireland should get EU aid worth €2.6 million to help find new jobs for 1,200 redundant Finnish IT workers and over €400,000 for 108 redundant Irish aircraft repair workers, following a vote by the budgets committee on Thursday. The European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) aid still needs to be approved by Parliament as a whole and by the Council of the EU.