Lithuania: EUR 289 million received from EC under Recovery and Resilience Facility

Lithuania has received a pre-financing payment of 289 million euros from the European Commission under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), the Finance Ministry reports. This amounts to 13% of total allocations for Lithuania. The pre-financing payment will help to kick-start the implementation of the crucial investment and reform measures outlined in Lithuania’s recovery and…

Lithuania: Kaunas receives first freight train from the Netherlands

Lithuania’s Kaunas Intermodal Terminal received its first freight train from the Netherlands, capable of carrying containers and semi-trailers. The train arrived on the European standard-gauge railway Rail Baltica, said Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, LG), the country’s state-owned railway company. According to the company, the terminal has officially become Europe’s easternmost rail point accessible for freight…