This week, Agnė Vaiciukevičiūtė, Deputy Minister of Transport and Communications, together with the Lithuanian business delegation, is visiting Taiwan, where ministries and business representatives will discuss the possibilities of cooperation in the field of communications.

Lithuania's public sector digital services have received a solid evaluation at European level. In the European Commission's European e-Government Scoreboard, a survey of 35 countries, Lithuania was ranked in the top group of countries, taking 8th place. This is an improvement on last year's ranking of 12th in the survey.

Lithuania's score in the European Commission's annual Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) report is above the overall EU average. As last year, Lithuania ranked 14th this year, with a DESI score of 52.7, compared to the EU average of 52.3.

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The Government opened the way for the Digital Embassy. This will ensure the preservation of key state data in critical and unforeseen circumstances on the territory of Lithuania, including in cases of war or physical destruction of data.

For several years, Kaunas has maintained the highest position in the country’s educational rankings. The city’s leadership was confirmed by 182 twelfth graders from Kaunas who excelled in this year’s state matriculation exams. Graduates scored 100 points in 234 different educational subjects’ exams and these results are among the best in the country. The most advanced of them were awarded symbolic gifts from the city of Kaunas on Tuesday.

The Ministry of Transport and Communications plans to use Austria's experience in improving long-distance transport and road maintenance as well as promoting sustainable mobility. During a visit to Vienna (Austria), Deputy Minister of Transport and Communications Julius Skačkauskas and his delegation discussed these issues in meetings with representatives of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology as well as the heads of national institutions in the field of road maintenance and public transport.

Vilnius district municipality organizes free Lithuanian language courses for adults who fled to the Republic of Lithuania due to the military invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation.

MEPs backed on Thursday a proposal to allow Ukrainian refugees to keep their national driving licences, exempting them from the obligation to exchange them for EU ones.

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