In the last quarter of 2013, Latvian airline airBaltic has achieved record 15-minute punctuality rates – 91.7% in October, 96,2% in November and 93.2% in December 2013. These are record months in terms of punctuality for airBaltic over the past five years.

The United Nations declared 2014 as the International Year of the Family. This is a very important declaration, because it coincides in time with the attack on the family, in the scale unprecedented before in the western world. Inglorious leaders are European countries in this action, that are including into it even institutions of the European Union. Legislation absurdities appear. Lobbying of new anti-values is so large that almost every document, report or resolution in European Parliament contains fillers of the subject of gender. The substantive content of the legal act is not important anymore and instead of it, in an intrusive manner, content which is inconsistent with the moral foundation of Europe is being smuggled.

EU countries will have to allocate more funds to improve their asylum systems and the integration of migrants under an EP-Council deal backed by the civil liberties committee on Thursday. The new Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund for the next 7 years sets minimum amounts to be spent on asylum and integration policies. MEPs also endorsed the new Internal Security Fund, aimed at improving police cooperation, border surveillance and crime prevention.

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaite signed the decree by which 9 citizens of Lithuania who defended Lithuania's Freedom and Independence were awarded the Medals of January 13.

With the first Air Lituanica aircraft taking flight on 30 June 2013, the company has been operating in the aviation market for six months now. Starting its flights in two directions, today Air Lituanica offers four regular flights to Brussels, Berlin, Prague, and Munich, and will begin flights to Paris on 14 February. Two new planes and new destinations are in the plans for the next year as well.

On Wednesday, the Government of Lithuania decided to equalize the conditions for all the subjects engaged in the agriculture.

On 8 January in Vilnius, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius bade farewell to the Apostolic Nuncio of the Holy See to Lithuania, doyen of the diplomatic corps Luigi Bonazzi.

Viewers and listeners of the LRT on Wednesday will become the witnesses of historic event. In the evening of January 8 first Lithuanian satellites will be launched.

In December, 2,500 Lithuanians working in the United Kingdom transferred to Lithuania LTL 4.4 million (EUR 1.3 million), averagely LTL 1,700 (EUR 492) each. This sum was transferred via international TransferGo system.

The procession of the Three Kings (the Three Wise Men) which will mark the end of the Christmas period will take place in Lithuania's capital Vilnius.