Current road safety challenges for smart transport infrastructure development was the main topic of the Informal Meeting of Transport Ministers of EU Member States and EEA States that took place today (8.5.2014), at Zappeion Megaron, in Athens.

On Wednesday, 7 May, Lithuania will commemorate the 110th anniversary of resumption of free press. The Presidential Palace will hold few events to mark this occasion: President Dalia Grybauskaite will award the winners of the National Dictation Contest and later the president invites to the concert dedicated to the jubilee of resumption of free press and to the 300th birthday anniversary of Lithuanian literature father Kristijonas Donelaitis.

There are no plans to introduce new taxes in Lithuania from 2015, assured Prime Minister of Lithuania Algirdas Butkevicius.

Domestic credit of Lithuania shrank by 163.9 million litas in March 2014, the Statistics Department of the bank of Lithuania said in a statement.

Starting from 31 August the airline Air Lituanica launches daily flights to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. The flights will be operated in the morning time. Passengers will have even more opportunities to travel across the world through Amsterdam by connecting flights.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė welcomed the participants of the conference "Backto.lt" and invited them to explore new job and business opportunities in Lithuania.

Rarely will people have been happier with the arrival of electricity. The launch of Vilnius's first-ever power plant was celebrated with a statue of the electricity goddess. This statue, now found in the centre of the city, was so popular that it featured in folk songs. After the power plant was decommissioned, people campaigned to have it recognised as national heritage and today it attracts many visitors as the Energy and Technology Museum.

The five NATO ships assigned to Standing NATO Mine Counter-Measures Group ONE (SNMCMG1) arrived in Klaipėda in the evening of May 1 for a scheduled port visit during the Group’s deployment to the Baltic to enhance maritime security and NATO’s readiness in the region.

EU membership represents an advantage in a globalised world, according to 70% of young people in a survey commissioned by the EP in view of the European Youth Event 2014. The survey was conducted among Europeans aged 16-30 from all member states. It will serve as a source of facts and figures for the 5,000 young people meeting in Strasbourg on 9-11 May as it addresses the event’s five main themes: youth unemployment, digital revolution, future of the EU, sustainability and European values.

On April 30 a formal rotation ceremony of air contingents deployed on the NATO Baltic Air Policing Mission will take place at the Lithuanian Air Force Base in Šiauliai. Following a four-month rotation and an augmentation the United States’ Air Contingent will be replaced by Polish military with four Mig-29 fighter jets. Their mission, too, will be strengthened by 4 Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets contributed by the United Kingdom.