A memorial plaque to Stefanija Ladigienė (1901-1967) was unveiled on the house marked number 10 in Trakų Street. S. Ladigienė is a public and political figure, a publicist, a pedagogue, and a rescuer of Jews, who was awarded the title of Righteous Among the Nations after her death.

In order to make the internal safety and security processes more efficient, to modernize the available tools at Lithuania’s main air gateway, installation of a new video surveillance system will start already this July. The new surveillance system is scheduled to be installed by the summer of 2022.

On Thursday, Parliament adopted its position for negotiations with Council on extending the mandate of the European Medicines Agency and strengthening its role.

As the numbers of migrants illegally crossing Lithuanian border do not fall, the Lithuanian Armed Forces partnered with the Ministry of the Interior to immediately put up a concertina coil fence on the borderline on July 9.

Lithuania again lists all the countries of the world as affected as a result of fast-spreading the Delta variant of the COVID-19 (coronavirus infection).| From Monday, 5 July, a COVID-19 testing will be required from arrivals from the green area countries, and two tests will be required from arrivals from the orange (yellow) area countries: one prior to arrival, the other - when in Lithuania. Brazil, India and the Republic of South Africa, whence arrivals fall subject to the enhanced communicable disease control measures, are now attributed to the grey area as all the third countries.

What are the goals of the new EU Environment Action Plan to 2030 and what has to be done to achieve them?

“Lithuania and Latvia are taking a united stand – we have to hold to our political commitment and prevent unsafe Belarusian electricity from being traded in the Baltic States,” said Minister of Energy Dainius Kreivys after a meeting with Latvian Minister of Economics Jānis Vitenbergs today in Riga, during which the rules proposed by Lithuania for trade in electricity from third countries were discussed.

Taking into account a decline in coronavirus infection rates and the lifting of lockdown in Lithuania as of 1 July, the Vilnius City Municipality (Konstitucijos Ave. 3) has gone back to providing contact customer service.

The Government has agreed to ease requirements for short-term (up to 2 hours) non-commercial events taking place outdoors in public spaces.

Nearly a third of plastic waste in Europe is recycled. The production of plastic has grown exponentially in just a few decades - from 1.5 million tonnes in 1950 to 359 million tonnes in 2018 worldwide – and with it the amount of plastic waste. After a sharp drop in production in the first half of 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, production recovered again in the second half of the year.