The Lithuanian Film Centre has granted EUR 390,378 of state funding for 14 national film projects. 9 projects – including one interactive project – were granted financial assistance for development, and 5 film projects – two features, one documentary, one short animation, and one short fiction film – received support for the production.

The European Commission has adopted today a legal act to create a simpler, more modern and integrated EU customs system to support cross-border trade and provide for more EU-wide cooperation in customs matters. It builds on the Union Customs Code adopted in 2013, which sets out detailed rules for twenty-first century customs processes.

A young Lithuanian woman has died during a trip to Kyrgyzstan's mountains. According to media reports, another mountaineer was injured.

The national airline airBaltic is currently in talks with two prospective investors – aviation companies, the possibility to involve all three Baltic countries in airBaltic is also under consideration, Transport Minister Anrijs Matiss (Unity) told LNT television this morning.

As the LNG terminal was opened in Klaipeda, the idea of shale gas extraction in Lithuania has lost its significance, although the Government does not give up plans to announce a new tender for investors in October 2015.

The Order of Malta Relief Organisation providing the transportation service for the disabled "Let's go" has also started its activities in the area of Vilnius Airport. Therefore, it will be even easier for persons with reduced mobility to travel abroad.

The Ministry of Transport and Communications has announced that Lithuanian Shipping Company's (LSC) vessel Deltuva is returning to Lithuania. It was impouneded in Gdansk, but will soon dock in Klaipeda port.

"19 people are returning to shore. We are doing our best to solve the issue of the return of other LSC vessels," said Deputy Transport and Communications Minister Saulius Girdauskas.

According to the Ministry, funds have been transferred to ensure that the impounded ships have fuel and other provisions.

After a meeting with President Dalia Grybauskaite on Wednesday, Minister of Transport and Communications Rimantas Sinkevicius said that bankruptcy proceedings would be initiated against LSC. The company's financial situation is complicated and its ships were impouneded in foreign ports.

Approximately 100 seamen work in ships that were impounded in five ports abroad. LSC debt for employee wages is EUR 1.5 million, whereas the total debt is EUR 20 million.

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Lithuania's National Audit Office conducted an audit at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), which assessed whether the Ministry used the budget funds allocated to its functions in a targeted manner.

The Ministry of Environment says that Lithuania will receive substantial EU funding for the renovation of blocks of flats and it will be felt by the whole construction sector.

Failing to find suitable and cheap employers on the domestic labour marker, Lithuanian employers are looking for possibilities to bring in workers from third countries.