Lithuania’s Competition Council has given Estonia’s Ekspress Grupp, the owner of the Delfi news portal, an additional month to sell the lrytas.lt news website, extending the deadline to January 7, 2025. Ekspress Grupp had asked regulators to push back the original December 7 deadline to meet the obligations imposed in connection with its acquisition of…
As the festive season begins, Estonian public media journalists have visited Christmas markets in Riga and Tallinn to compare offerings and prices, writes ERR News. The Tallinn Christmas market opened on November 28 and would operate until December 28. Experience shows that demand drops sharply after Christmas, and therefore, like last year, the market will…
In the second half of November, prices for liquefied gas at Polish terminals increased by $5-10/ton, to $635-675/ton, on FCA terms. Taking into account the cost of delivery to the Ukrainian border, the mixture also rose by $5-10/ton, to $670-729/ton. Companies are raising prices for the Ukrainian route, as the Polish alternative has grown. “We…
Estonia’s long-planned express rail linking Tartu and Riga may finally launch around December 15, offering a roughly three and a half hour trip between the two cities. Elron, Estonia’s state-owned passenger rail operator, has been working for years to launch the express route. Originally slated to enter service last year when Tartu was the 2024…
Lithuanian Prime Minister Inga Ruginiene says she has been assured by Latvia and Estonia that they will support Lithuania if necessary in its dispute with Belarus over the border closure. “The Poles have already shown solidarity with us and have not opened their border, even though they planned to do so a week ago,” the…
During the past working week, fuel prices increased in the Baltic capitals, with the only exception being the price of diesel fuel in Riga, which remained unchanged, according to data compiled by the LETA news agency. At the end of last week, the highest gasoline price was recorded in Tallinn, followed by Riga and Vilnius.…
Latvia has the second most competitive tax system among the member states of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), trailing only Estonia, according to the latest International Tax Competitiveness Index published by the U.S. think tank Tax Foundation. Latvia has ranked second in the index for the eighth year in a row. The…