Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius in principle is not against the creation of a national airline, but stresses that without private investors such company would not be viable.

Maxima Eesti owned by the Lithuanian Maxima Grupe became the first retail chain in Estonia to open a store online. Residents of Tallinn and its surroundings are now able to buy more than 6,000 different types of everyday foods and drinks.

Municipal elections of 2015 are over. The party Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania confirmed its unrivalled position in Vilnius Region and received the record-equalling support in the country as well as in Vilnius. In order to see the full picture of the growing strength of the party it is worth comparing the results of the latest elections with those of four years ago.

Lithuania's Environment Minister Kestutis Treciokas does not think that the country should speed up the international shale gas exploration tender.

"We are pleased that the revised GDP for 2014 compared to 2013 increased by 3% rather than by 2.9% as it was announced in the preliminary estimates. The higher growth was driven by the growth of the construction industry, also, the Government's decisions regarding housing renovation under the new programme," Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius said on Monday.

Riga was ranked 2nd in Europe as a city for fast-growth businesses by influential US business publication Inc..Vilnius has been ranked 4th. The list, compiled by influential US business publication Inc., rated European cities on the number companies that made it onto Inc.'s 5000 Europe list of rapidly-expanding enterprises.

Agrowill Group, AB has published the interim unaudited financial information for 2014. The effect of the merger between Agrowill Group, AB, Baltic Champs, UAB and eTime invest, UAB is incorporated into the provided Group's consolidated financial statements.

Some 3,000 workers made redundant in Belgium, Germany and Poland in 2013-2014 should receive EU aid worth €6.3million to help them find jobs, the Budgets Committee recommended on Thursday. The European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) aid still has to be approved by Parliament as a whole and the Council of Ministers.

A new draft text on an EU system for the use of Passenger Name Record (PNR) data, tabled by lead MEP Timothy Kirkhope (ECR, UK), was discussed in the civil liberties committee on Thursday morning.

On 26 February 2015, Lithuanian Post (Lietuvos pastas) opened Logistics Centre in Ramuciu village, Kaunas district.