On December 16, Lithuanian Defence Minister Arvydas Anusauskas met with the US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin in Washington and signed the contract for acquiring High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) launchers. For a preliminary price of $495 million, Lithuania is buying eight HIMARS launchers from the US, along with several types of missiles, including long-range…
Airports in the UK and Ireland are testing systems that will relax some security rules on liquids and items, such as laptops, in hand luggage. Lithuanian Airports say they are also planning similar changes. The British government has set a deadline of June 2024 for most UK airports to install new high-tech 3D scanners that…
On December 14, the Lithuanian government approved electricity and natural gas price subsidies for household consumers in the first half of 2023. The scheme provides for covering up to 28.5 euro cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) of electricity and 99 cents per cubic meter of gas, up from 9 cents and 54 cents, respectively. The threshold…
Ukrainians will be able to use public transport in Vilnius for free next year after the local council has extended the scheme until 2024. “The issue is quite obvious. Can we agree on this unanimously? Thank you,” Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Simasius told the members of the Vilnius City Council. In 2023, people who fled Ukraine…
Until 2030, a quarter of Lithuania’s electricity consumption should be generated by a wind farm in the Baltic Sea. Scientists are carrying out studies on how the park would affect the environment. Lithuania’s first offshore wind farm with a capacity of 700 megawatts will be built in Palanga, 30 kilometres off the coast. “The plan…
Lithuania is leading among EU countries in integrating Ukrainian refugees into its labour market. More than half of working-age Ukrainians that have arrived in the country after the Russian invasion in February have found jobs. Zigmantas Dargevicius said he wanted to help Ukrainian refugees and offered a number of them jobs with a hotel chain…
The Lithuanian Association of Pharmacies and eight pharmaceutical companies have been fined a total of almost 73 million euros for making a deal on higher markups, the Competition Council reports. The competition watchdog said in a press release it imposed fines of 27.5 million euros on Eurovaistine, 16.7 million euros on Gintarine Vaistine, 9.2 million…