The Baltic News is an independent news portal, highlighting political, economic, business, and social events in all three Baltic states – Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. The Baltic News also covers major events in the European Union.
Current Pulse
Latvia
Swedish government formally tasks armed forces with preparing for presence in...
The Swedish government has given the armed forces a formal task of planning and preparing for the Swedish contribution of a reduced mechanized battalion...
Estonia
List of narcotic, psychotropic substances supplemented
Estonian Minister of Health Riina Sikkut signed regulation amendments, with which eight new psychoactive substances are added to the list of narcotic and psychotropic...
Lithuania
Stepukonis transferred EUR 31.6 mln to Olympic Casino shareholder in Estonia...
Sarunas Stepukonis, a former partner at the BaltCap Infrastructure Fund, transferred 31.6 million euros to the account of OB Holding 1, the Estonian shareholder...
Lithuania
Ryanair cancels flight from Vilnius due to strike in France
Irish airline Ryanair has cancelled more than 300 flights, including from Vilnius to Paris, due to Thursday's strike by French air traffic controllers.
According to...
Lithuania
MP Zemaitaitis broke his oath, violated Constitution – court
MP Remigijus Zemaitaitis broke his oath of office and grossly violated the Constitution with his statements about Jewish people, the Constitutional Court ruled on...
Latvia
Siliņa will ask to probe allegation on falsification of results of...
Prime Minister Evika Silina (New Unity) will ask law enforcement authorities to investigate the public allegation that almost ten years ago the then secretary...
Latvia
OECD recommends Latvia to improve fiscal policy, tax system and public...
Latvia needs to improve fiscal policy, reform the tax system, improve public sector capacity and attract investment to boost growth, the Organization for Economic...
Lithuania
Four Georgians detained on suspicion of stealing valuable books in Lithuania,...
Law-enforcement officials from Lithuania and several other countries have detained four Georgian citizens suspected of stealing valuable books from Vilnius University and libraries in...
Interviews
Eastern business sale price ‘doesn’t make us happy’ – Viciunai Group...
As Viciunai Group, a Lithuanian fish and other food production and sale group partly owned by Kaunas Mayor Visvaldas Matijosaitis, has recently sold its...
Estonia
Särav: We have not intentionally hidden correspondence with Bolt
The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communication's (MKM) communication with Bolt has been honest, and it is necessary to talk with companies to stand...
Latvia
Temperatures could rise above +20 degrees C next week
The air temperature in Latvia will gradually rise in the coming days and will exceed +20 degrees C at the beginning of next week,...
Estonia
Modern industrial incubator to be established in Narva
The state will direct almost 8.5 million euros from the European Union's Just Transition Fund (JTF) to the construction of an industrial incubator of...
Estonia
Estonian Land Board: Number of transactions in Q1 slightly down on...
Data from the Estonian Land Board shows that there were 8,412 purchase and sale transactions in the first quarter of this year, totaling 950...
Estonia
13 cm snow cover recorded on Saaremaa island
According to the observation data of the Environment Agency, as of Tuesday morning, the most snow in Estonia is on the western island of...
Lithuania
Smuggled cigarettes worth more than EUR 1 mln found inside Belarusian...
Customs officers at Lithuania's Salcininkai border checkpoint have found smuggled cigarettes worth more than one million euros stashed inside a truck from Belarus, the...
Estonia
Bolt to temporarily suspend electric scooter service due to snowfall
Due to unexpected snowfall on Tuesday, Bolt has decided to temporarily suspend its electric scooter service to ensure customer safety.
Bolt Drive cars are equipped...
Lithuania
Lithuanian lawmakers allow up to 10,000 foreign troops to come for...
Lithuanian lawmakers on Tuesday adopted a special resolution allowing up to 10,000 troops from other countries to take part in the international Exercise Baltic...
Latvia
Spain plans to join Riga-based NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence
The Cabinet of Ministers on Tuesday approved a memorandum of understanding on the Spanish Defense Ministry's plan to join the Riga-based NATO Strategic Communication...
Latvia
Cyber threats to remain at current levels or even increase slightly...
In the coming years, cyber threats will remain at the current level or even slightly increase, Valdis Vancovics, Chairman of the Board of the...
Latvia
Border guards prevent 76 persons from illegally crossing Latvia-Belarus border over...
Over the weekend, border guards prevented attempts by 76 people to illegally enter Latvia from Belarus, LETA learned from the State Border Guard.
So far...
Latvia
airBaltic plans to launch public offering in second half of year
Latvian national airline airBaltic plans to announce a public offering of its shares in the second half of the year, the airline's CEO Martin...
Estonia
Season’s 1st 2 cruise ships to visit Estonia this week
Two cruise ships, the Bahamas-flagged cruise ship Borealis and the Le Bellot, which is sailing under the flag of the Pacific microstate of Wallis...
Estonia
2 Estonian lottery players win over EUR 100,000 in Eurojackpot
The Friday night Eurojackpot draw brought two Estonian lottery players 109,916 euros each.
Both tickets had been bought online, the state-owned lottery company Eesti Loto...
Lithuania
Lithuania opts not to contest latest ECHR ruling on CIA prison,...
Lithuania did not appeal the European Court of Human Rights' (ECHR) ruling on the unlawful detention of a Saudi national in a suspected secret...
Latvia
Big Cleanup in Riga will take place in more than 750...
This year's Big Cleanup in Riga will take place in more than 750 locations, the annual campaign's spokeswoman Anna Blaua told LETA.
One of the...
Estonia
E-residents have established over 30,000 companies in Estonia
Estonia's e-residency program, launched on Dec. 1, 2014 and being unique in the world, has seen 113,341 foreign citizens become e-residents of Estonia, and...
Estonia
Estonia, Latvia to explore possibilities for production of sustainable aviation fuels
Estonia and Latvia are to study the potential for producing sustainable, meaning more environmentally friendly, aviation fuels in the Baltic Sea region, with the...
Lithuania
Russia’s Gruppa Okean has acquired Lithuanian Viciunai Group’s business in Russia
Viciunai Group, a fish and other food production and trading group owned by Kaunas Mayor Visvaldas Matijosaitis and his business partner Liudas Skierus, has...
Lithuania
Two people suspected of attacking Navalny ally Volkov detained in Poland
Two people suspected of attacking Russian opposition activist Leonid Volkov in Vilnius have been detained in Poland, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said on Friday.
Volkov,...
World
Meet Master Sergeant Matthias Havel, a member of the German Mountain...
In an era dominated by new technologies and cutting-edge methods of transportation, it may be hard to imagine that there are military units that...
European Union
EP President Metsola at EUCO: The Single Market is Europe’s greatest...
Doubling down on the Single Market ensures Europe’s long-term competitiveness, prosperity and leadership on the global stage, said President Metsola at the Special European...
Latvia
Riga City Council hands over 10 hectares of land in Lucavsala...
Riga City Council on Wednesday decided to transfer more than 10 hectares of land in Lucavsala Island in Riga to the Latvian Football Federation...
Estonia
Mobile crash cushion truck using Elmo technology to be showcased in...
Canada's first tele-driven Truck Mounted Attenuator (TMA) truck, utilizing technology from Estonian company Elmo, will debut in a live presentation at Intertraffic in Amsterdam,...
Estonia
Estonia continues efforts to free its citizen from ship seized in...
Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna said that Estonia is continuing its diplomatic efforts to secure the release of an Estonian citizen who was on board...
Lithuania
Four in 10 Lithuanians would buy products of companies still operating...
Forty-one percent of people in Lithuania say they would buy products of businesses still operating in Russia and 45 percent say they would not,...
Estonia
Duo Media, Postimees to bring Paris Olympics to Estonians’ homes
TV channels Kanal 2, Duo 5 and Kanal 7, Raadio Kuku radio station and Postimees are official broadcast partners for the Summer Olympic Games...
Latvia
President supports Braze as foreign minister
Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics supports the nomination of diplomat Baiba Braze for the post of foreign minister.
Rinkevics told journalists on Wednesday after a meeting...
Latvia
Foreign investors rate investment climate in Latvia at historic low
Foreign investors’ assessment of the overall investment climate in Latvia reached its lowest rating of 1.9 points out of 5. In comparison to 2022,...
Latvia
Turnover of medicines sold by pharmacies up 8.7% in 2023
Last year, the turnover of medicines sold at general pharmacies rose by 8.7 percent against 2022 to EUR 467.073 million (excluding VAT), according to...
Estonia
Milrem Robotics awarded contract to deliver Themis UGVs to Japan
Milrem Robotics, a developer of robotics and autonomous systems, has recently won a contract to supply unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) to the Japanese defense...
Latvia
Lux Express applies to provide shuttle service between Riga Airport and...
International passenger carrier Lux Express on Tuesday submitted to the Road Transport Administration a request to add the Riga Center-Riga Airport route to the...
Lithuania
A new direction for gourmet pleasures nearly open – The MICHELIN...
Michelin announces the expansion of the MICHELIN Guide to Lithuania, completing the representation of the Baltic countries within its selections. The inaugural Guide for...
Latvia
Latvian national involved in fraudulent cannabis investment scheme could be extradited...
A Latvian national involved in a fraudulent cannabis investment scheme could be extradited to Spain, LETA learned.
A joint investigation conducted by several European law...
Lithuania
Greece’s Aegean Airlines to launch direct Vilnius-Athens flights Friday
Greece's Aegean Airlines is set to launch direct flights between Vilnius and Athens on Friday.
The Greek carrier will officially present its upcoming operations in...
Estonia
CVKeskus: Salary offers in Estonia up 13 pct on year in...
The average gross salary range offered in job listings in Estonia during the first quarter of 2024 was between 1,660 and 2,244 euros, a...
Estonia
President: Art exhibition in Kadriorg strengthens friendship between Estonia, Spain
In his remarks on the occasion of the opening of an exhibition of Spanish modernist art at Kadriorg Art Museum in Tallinn, Estonian President...
Latvia
NetZero Pilot Cities CO2 reduction project to be implemented in Riga...
From May 1, Riga City Municipality will participate in the NetZero Pilot Cities project together with several other European cities with the aim to...
Latvia
Latvian officials condemn Iran’s attack on Israel
President Edgars Rinkevics and Prime Minister Evika Silina (New Unity), who is also acting as Foreign Minister, condemn the attack on Israel by Iran...
Lithuania
Seven out of 10 people in Lithuania see Russia as threat...
Seven out of ten people in Lithuania believe that Russia poses a threat to national security, and almost a quarter disagree with this view,...
Estonia
KIK to support industrial cos’ resource efficiency investments
Starting April 23, industrial enterprises in Estonia can begin submitting applications to request support for investments aimed at increasing their resource and energy efficiency...