On Thursday, 39 members of the new Kaunas City Council, including Visvaldas Matijosaitis, the first Kaunas mayor elected directly, were sworn in.

Former Kaunas Mayor Andrius Kupcinskas did not attend the inaugural sitting.

The new mayor Matijosaitis, leader of the public election committee United Kaunas, was decorated with the mayoral regalia, he also received the City's Key.

Participants of the sitting were reminded that the mayor's chain of office is an exceptional insignia, binding the most important person of the city's government with the city's works, joys and sorrows. The City's Key is a symbol of the mayor's duty to defend the city's honour and interests of its interests.

In his turn, following an ancient ritual of the city, the new mayor gave Kaunas a traditional gift – a barrel of mead and a coin.

During his inaugural speech, Matijosaitis thanked the city's residents for their trust in him.

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Member of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) political group in the Seimas, Shadow Minister of Agriculture, Kazys Starkevicius, has proposed to amend the rules of allocating aid for setting up young farmers. Based on the proposal, farmers who would be carrying out mandatory military service would be subject to certain exemptions.

During her formal visit to Lithuania, Germany's Federal Minister of Defence Dr Ursula von der Leyen told her Lithuanian counterpart Juozas Olekas that Berlin is going to sell the self-propelled artillery systems Panzerhaubitze 2000 (PZH 2000) to Lithuania, as requested by the country.

One in ten respondents reported that their households' and Lithuania's economic situation has improved in February-March 2015.

On 11 April 2015, M109A6 Paladin Howitzer Platoon of the 1-41 Field Artillery Battalion, the United States Army in Europe, is arriving in Lithuania to take part in international exercise Fire Thunder 2015. The US platoon is bringing four 155mm self-propelled howitzers and logistic equipment.

The Bank of Lithuania has presented to market participants its proposals concerning changes to the Responsible Lending Regulations. They would introduce the requirement to responsibly assess customer's risk due to likely interest rate increases, while the proposed shorter maximum maturity of a housing loan would speed up the repayment of the loan and reduce the possibility of over-indebtedness.

On April 7 joint Lithuanian-Latvian-Estonian unit, the BALTBAT battalion, began a two-week long training and certification exercise ahead of the standby for the NATO Response Force in 2016.

Lithuania's Radiation Protection Centre (RSC) has announced that the level of radioactive caesium (Cs-137) contamination in timber used for biofuel and its ash is too low to pose any danger to human health or the environment.

Lithuanian businessmen finally have hope that not only "the chosen and irreplaceable companies", but they too will be able to participate and perhaps even win public procurement tenders announced by Vilnius City Municipality or its enterprises.

LESTO, Lithuania's national power distribution company, have streamlined their power connection process for business and private customers. Connection time for new customers will be reduced by 2 days on average thanks to the changes.