The first airport cinema hall in the Eastern and Northern Europe was inaugurated at Vilnius Airport on 28 May 2015. Now passengers waiting for their flights can enjoy their time at the airport even more and watch Lithuanian creators' films in FilmBox LT hall free of charge.

This week capital dredging works of Klaipeda Seaport navigation channel are to be launched. They are to start from quay No. 9 and finish by the Seaport gates. Capital dredging works shall be finished in autumn, it is planned to excavate approx. 300 thou. cubic metres of soil.

On 1 through 19 June exercise Saber Strike 2015 held concurrently in the three Baltic States and Poland will train roughly 6 thousand troops from 13 NATO allies and partner nations. It will concentrate the most numerous allied capabilities on the soil of Lithuania since accessing NATO, reported Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence.

In 2014, the number of recipients of old-age pensions paid by the State Social Insurance Fund (Sodra) decreased by a thousand to 599,600. By the end of 2014, as much as 923,200 people received at least one type of pension, i.e. one in three Lithuanians.

In IMD World Competitiveness Ranking 2015, Lithuania moved to 28 position from 34, which is the highest position so far. Lithuania out-performed its neighbouring countries: Estonia stepped by one position to 31, Latvia declined by 8 positions to 43, Poland moved up but still is in position 33.

Vilnius Regional Administrative Court (VAAT) has dismissed the appeal of fertiliser manufacturer UAB Achema against the National Commission for Energy Control and Prices (VKEKK) in relation to its provisions on the construction and exploitation of the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Terminal.

The Government of Lithuania has adopted a Resolution to the Draft Law on Establishing the Principal Structure of the Armed Forces in 2016, Establishing the Planned Principal Structure of the Armed Forces in 2021 and Approving the Margin Number of Statutory Servants in the National Defence Forces in 2016 and 2021.

The European Commission today adopted the first set of concrete measures to implement the European Agenda on Migration.

Minister of National Defence in Lithuania Juozas Olekas announced that 1,561 volunteers have registered by Monday morning, 25 May, and that the health commission examined the health of 500 of them.

In the first quarter of the year 2015, Lithuania's' insurance market grew by 6.9% in terms of premiums written year on year, and amounted to EUR 150.7 million. This is the highest performance of premiums written over the first quarter in the history of the domestic insurance market.