On 20 April 2015, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed to agree on common power trading principles for the LitPol Link, the new Lithuania-Poland power interconnection planned to open in the end of 2015.

After sickness allowances were increased in Lithuania since the beginning of 2015, the number of recorded sickness cases and total allowances paid soared by over a third.

Lithuania's Tripartite Council, made of trade unions, employers' organisations and the Government's representatives, has assented to the increase of the monthly minimum wage as of 1 July 2015 so that the minimum wage reaches EUR 325.

According to the international route development organisation Routesonline, the air capacity within and from Eastern Europe has risen by 97 per cent in the past ten years. Based on the company's calculations, the fastest growing gateway in Eastern Europe between 2010 and 2014 was Vilnius International Airport of Lithuania.

On 17 April 2015, Minister of Transport and Communications, Rimantas Sinkevicius, met with President of the World Road Association (PIARC), Oscar de Buen Richkarday, who commended Lithuania for improving road safety.

From 1 May 2015, goods carried in travellers' personal baggage or fuel in a private car are allowed to enter the Republic of Lithuania free of duties and taxes not more than 3 times per calendar month.

On 15 April 2015, Seimas Deputy Speaker in Lithuania Gediminas Kirkilas met with Irish Ambassador to Lithuania David Robert Noonan.

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.