Fifty more armoured Joint Light Tactical Vehicles (JLTV) will reach Lithuania in November, Deputy Minister of Defence Vilius Semeska has announced. “50 of the 200 units ordered under the contract will be delivered to Lithuania in early November,” he said in a Facebook post. Representatives of the Defence Materiel Agency are currently in the United…
Warsaw now officially has the tallest building in the European Union. Work on Varso Tower, which stands at 310 metres and eclipses the Palace of Culture and Science, has been completed and the building is waiting for its first tenants to move in. Standing in the centre of the capital, as many as 16 trees…
The Defence Materiel Agency under the Defence Ministry has launched procurement procedures for 35 sets of unmanned aircraft systems (UASs). The plan is to buy 26 sets of “mini” and nine sets of “small” UASs for around 36 million euros. “The acquisition of these systems will significantly improve the Lithuanian Armed Forces’ intelligence capability,” Defence…
Minister of Economy Sergiu Gaibu had a meeting with President of the Polish Development Bank (BGK) Beata Daszynska-Muzyczka on September 13 in Warsaw. They approached areas of mutual interest, as well as opportunities to support Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), through accessible and competitive instruments. Sergiu Gaibu welcomed the Polish Bank’s interest in the country…
A new Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine specifically targeting new, more contagious types of the Covid-19 Omicron variant is expected to arrive in Lithuania in October, the Health Ministry has said. “The first shipment of the vaccine against the BA.4 and BA.5 coronavirus sub-variants will reach Lithuania in early October,” Tomas Bagdonas, an adviser to the health minister,…
Several messages of support and openness in providing economic support for Moldova were announced at a meeting between Minister of Economy Sergiu Gaibu and Polish counterpart Waldemar Buda. The two officials discussed the challenges of the period, accentuated by the refugee crisis, the energy crisis, etc. “The last period has been extremely difficult and challenging…
Lithuania’s Tripartite Council, representing the country’s government, employers and trade unions, has failed to reach an agreement on raising the minimum monthly wage from next year and will submit different opinions to the government. “We will propose recording separate opinions, and the government will be asked to make an immediate decision so that businesses can…