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Lithuanian and Norwegian officers have busted an international drug ring operating in both countries.

Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius expects that Norway's gas company Statoil will lower the price Lithuania is paying for liquefied natural gas (LNG). After Litgas, Lithuania's state-owned gas company, concludes negotiations with Statoil, consumers can expect price drops, he said on Monday.

On International Migrants Day (18 December), Statistics Lithuania announced that, over the last decade, 126,000 new residents immigrated into Lithuania while 438,500 emigrated. From 2005 to 2014, the percentage of emigrants of ages 20-39 grew from 51.9 to 59.2 percent. In 2014, as many as 82 percent...

Defence Minister Juozas Olekas has signed an agreement in London, establishing the Joint Expeditionary Force. Defence Policy Director at the Ministry of National Defence Vaidotas Urbelis says that the seven states that signed the agreement share a similar view on security and will be able to decide ...

Klaipėdos Nafta (Klaipėda Oil), Lithuania's state-run company managing oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals, has issued a call for tenders to secure a loan of up to EUR 300 million. The money would be partly used to pay for the rent of the LNG storage vessel.

Lithuania plans to purchase the Klaipėda LNG terminal’s floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) in ten years, and not now, since the vessel’s owner, Norway’s Hoegh LNG, refuses to sell the ship before the term established in the contract.

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Lithuania is a tiger in the European zoo. The future looks bright for a country that chose a totally different path from Greece. Investors and entrepreneurs take note!

The Lithuanian government is considering several options to reduce the costs of maintenance of the Klaipėda liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said on Friday.

Natural gas supply and trading company Litgas, part of Lithuania's state owned energy holding Lietuvos Energija, and Norway's Statoil, a leading global energy company in oil and gas production, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Thursday in Vilnius regarding establishment of a joint ventu...

One month after a small Lithuanian aircraft, An-2, crashed into the Baltic Sea on 16 May, the public still knows very little about what happened and why. If officials in charge of the investigation know more, they keep it to themselves.

Europe's new front-line states are the Nordic countries, Baltic countries, plus Poland, which share a common concern about a "revisionist and rapidly-rearming Russia", according to the Baltic Sea Security Report by the Centre for European Policy Analysis (CEPA).

Energy Minister Rokas Masiulis has not denied that Lithuania is in talks with Norway's Statoil on a more flexible schedule of liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports, saying that various operating modes at Klaipėda LNG terminal and its possibilities are currently being tried out and that the ministry ha...

Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas met with is Norwegian counterpart Ine Eriksen Soereide and invited Norway to deploy a back-up contingent for the Baltic air policing mission in Lithuania in 2016.

On 29 October, Scandinavian airlines SAS launches a new Oslo - Vilnius route. SAS passengers will be offered four weekly flights on this route, Vilnius Airport said.

Since 5 May, a group of staff officers from the Joint Staff of the Lithuanian Armed Forces is taking part in a command post exercise (CPX) Trident Jaguar 2015 of the UK-led Headquarters Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARCC) in composition of the Danish Division in Norway, Lithuania's Ministry of Nation...

Norway ranks as the world's best place to be a mother in the annual scorecard released by Save the Children on Monday.

Air contingents conducting the NATO Baltic Air Policing Mission will change over at a rotation ceremony at Šiauliai Airbase in Lithuania on Thursday.

Norwegian banking and insurance company Storebrand officially launched its brand new training centre in Vilnius.

Norway's two F-16 Fighting Falcons landed in the Lithuanian Air Force Aviation Base in Šiauliai on Monday for the NATO air policing mission.