The Ministry of the Economy and Innovation notes that the main testing method for obtaining the National Certificate should be rapid antigen tests because their results are obtained most rapidly.

In response to the unprecedented Belarus’s attack by the forced landing of a civilian aircraft on an international route to Vilnius on Sunday, Lithuania has recognised this country as unsafe for Lithuanian citizens and has banned flights to/from Lithuania crossing the territory of this country. This decision was made by the Lithuanian Government on Monday on the recommendation of the Ministry of Transport and Communications.

Finnair will restart its Vilnius-Helsinki service starting from the 15th of June with four weekly flights. The route will be operated on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays.

The Cabinet of Ministers has approved the development plans for two power system synchronisation projects of special national importance. Design work for the Darbėnai-Bitėnai and Kruonis PSP-Bitėnai lines will start in the near future.

From May 24, the Freedom ID will be available on www.gpasas.lt.

In the late afternoon of May 19 a B-52 U.S. strategic bomber flew over Vilnius as part of a coordinated U.S. and other allies’ training, in demonstration of the Alliance solidarity and unity.

“The methodology for trading electricity from third countries unilaterally applied by Latvia and Estonia may cost Lithuanian consumers an extra EUR 100 million per year,” said Vice-Minister of Energy Albinas Zananavičius after today’s BEMIP meeting, during which Lithuania, mediated by the European Commission, sought a new methodology for tripartite trade in electricity from third countries.

Find out what the benefits of hydrogen energy are and how the EU wants to make the most of it to support the green transition.

Vilnius neighbourhoods built in the Soviet years will face major changes – today, the Vilnius City Municipality presented the neighbourhood vitality programme MIESTAS +. The aim of this programme, which should last for a decade at the least, is to renovate apartments, houses, courtyards and streets of the old neighbourhoods of the city and to create centres of attraction and the identity of individual neighbourhoods.

As vaccination campaigns accelerate in the European continent, the challenges of the pandemic for travellers in some countries are gradually shrinking. When comparing aviation flows in March and April of this year at three Lithuanian airports, in the last month there has already been a higher flow of passengers (30 per cent growth) and a higher number of flights (16 per cent growth).