CityBee car on Vokiečių Str, Vilnius
Economy

CityBee grows fast in 2017 amid breakthrough in Lithuanian car sharing market

Lithuanian startup CityBee has tabulated its results for 2017, and it was a year of remarkable growth in size and popularity for the car sharing operator. Its cars are now available in several of the country’s cities, the community of users of its services now numbers more than 100 000, and the total distance customers have driven is now in the millions of kilometres, a press release by the company states. […]

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Foreign affairs

Lithuanian railway co to pay EC fine for removed Renge tracks

The state-run railway company Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, LG) will Friday pay the fine of nearly 28 million euros imposed by the European Commission (EC) for the dismantled railway stretch to Renge, Latvia, the company’s CEO Mantas Bartuška confirmed to BNS. […]

Doctors' protest
Politics

Lithuanian PM glad doctor protests free of politics

The mass protest action held in Vilnius on Thursday over salaries of health professionals and other reforms in the health care sector did not turn into a political event, says Lithuania’s Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis. […]

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Foreign affairs

Lithuanian watchdog to submit comments on Belarus’ N-plant stress tests by mid-January

Lithuania’s State Nuclear Power Safety Inspectorate (VATESI) expects to submit its comments and questions regarding Belarus’ stress tests report on the Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) to an international group of experts by mid-January. […]

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Politics

Doctors to rally in Vilnius to demand better conditions, reforms

Lithuanian health professionals will stage a protest action in Vilnius to press their demands for better work conditions and healthcare system reforms. […]