Minsk wants to relaunch passenger train services to Vilnius, halted two years ago due to the coronavirus pandemic, but Lithuania’s state-owned railway company says it does not plan to do so either this year or in 2023. “Passenger train services between Vilnius and Minsk hadbeen suspended since 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic began,” Kotryna Dzikaraite,…
Lithuania and the United Kingdom are discussing opportunities to open direct flights between Vilnius and London Heathrow. Transport Minister Marius Skuodis and UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in London on the development of air services and discussed the possibility of direct flights between Vilnius and Heathrow airports, the Transport…
Germany’s Rheinmetall and Krauss-Maffei Wegmann opened Lithuania Defense Services (LDS), a centre for servicing military vehicles, in the central town of Jonava on June 29. The centre will provide logistical and maintenance services for combat vehicles owned by Lithuania and its NATO allies, the Defence Ministry and the Lithuanian Armed Forces say. “Allied deployments in…
Annual inflation in Lithuania reached 20.5% in June, according to preliminary estimates by Statistics Lithuania. Inflation was mainly influenced by an increase in the prices of foodstuffs and non-alcoholic beverages, housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels, transportation. The preliminary monthly change in consumer prices was 2.2% in June compared with May. The indicators are…
Minors will no longer be able to buy lottery tickets in Lithuania under a new law passed on June 28. The parliament adopted the amendments to the Law on Lotteries in a vote of 88 to seven with 23 abstentions. The ban will come into effect in January 2023. The new legislation will also prohibit…
If the European Commission makes concessions to sanctions on the transit of some goods between mainland Russia and Kaliningrad, this will create additional legal problems, Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said on June 28. According to the minister, the Commission is still working on a document on how the EU sanctions should be implemented and…
US Senator Richard Joseph Durbin, currently in Vilnius, has called for no exceptions to the existing EU sanctions for Russia on Kaliningrad transit. Lithuania is imposing EU sanctions, which is “entirely consistent with the American and NATO approach to dealing with Pootin,” he said after accepting the Aleksandras Stulginskis Star award at the Lithuanian parliament.…