Estonian postal services provider Omniva has opened a new logistics centre near Lithuania’s second-largest city, Kaunas, BNS reports. The company invested EUR 42mn in the new facility, which was the group’s largest investment to date. The logistics centre, located in the Kaunas Free Economic Zone (KLEZ), has an area of almost 22,000 m2. The facility…
Lithuania is seeking continuous presence of US combat troops in the country, regardless of the outcome of the US presidential election, President Gitanas Nauseda stated, BNS reports. Speaking after visiting US troops at the Pabrade training area near Vilnius, Nauseda noted that the base would soon be able to accommodate about 1,000 US troops. At…
The Latvian parliament, the Saeima, is discussing proposed amendments that would stop recognising Russian education certificates obtained after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, LSM reports. Under the amendments proposed by the opposition National Alliance, education certificates issued in Russia after 24 February 2022 would no longer be recognised in Latvia. National Alliance MPs…
The Latvian government is unlikely to satisfy the Health Ministry’s request for EUR 153.3mn of additional funding for hospitals in the 2025 state budget, LSM reports. Health Minister Hosams Abu Meri said that the money was needed for human resources, medicines, infrastructure, emergency services, digitalisation, and data security. However, the government has listed external and…
The city council of Estonia’s second-largest city, Tartu, has voted in favour of concluding a sister city agreement with the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, ERR reports. The main focus of the cooperation agreement will be to provide help for Ukraine’s reconstruction, civil protection, and crisis management. Both Tartu and Lviv are important university cities…
Nearly half of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Estonia regard the country’s economic climate as being negative, according to a Turu-Uuringute poll for loan comparison platform Sortter, BNS reports. The survey showed that 46% of local entrepreneurs saw the economic climate as negative in August 2024. The main perceived challenges included operating costs (57%)…
Lithuania’s International Transport and Logistics Alliance (TTLA) has joined the International Road Transport Union (IRU). TTLA’s secretary general, Povilas Drizas, said that membership of IRU allowed the organisation to better represent the interests of Lithuanian road freight operators. TTLA represents 25 of Lithuania’s largest transport and logistics companies, which handle around 80% of all road…
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda has proposed establishing a new ministry responsible for regional policy, BNS reports. Speaking at a forum of regional policymakers in Vilnius, Nauseda said that the new ministry would help increase the autonomy of local governments and coordination between different ministries. He suggested that the new ministry could take over functions from…
Ukraine’s ambassador to Latvia, Anatolii Kutsevol, has asked the Latvian parliament, the Saeima, to pass a law to ban twin town agreements between Latvian municipalities and local governments in Russia and Belarus, LSM reports. In a letter to the parliament’s committee on public administration and local government, Kutsevol argued that such forms of cooperation were…