- May 8, 2026
Latvia’s household waste management system is already facing serious challenges. Although sorting infrastructure has improved in recent years and part of the society is actively sorting waste, 118 thousand tonnes [..]
The European Commissioner for Startups, Research and Innovation, Ekaterina Zaharieva, will attend the Baltic Startup Policy Forum in Riga, hosted by the Latvian Startup Association Startin.LV and held during TechChill [..]
By Modesta Gaučaitė-Znutienė, LRT.lt. Although freezing temperatures continue across Lithuania, authorities are urging residents in some areas to prepare for possible flooding if a thaw causes the Neris River to [..]
Latvian technology company LMT Group has announced a strategic 12-month development initiative in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA) to pioneer a new generation of universal IoT (Internet of [..]
Mirova, an affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers dedicated to sustainable investing, and Evecon announce a series of major milestones supporting the acceleration of Estonia’s energy transition, through their jointly owned [..]
By Edmunds Antufjevs, Kristiāna Janvare, Signet Bank Investment Banking Management. Bond issuance activity in the Baltic market surged in 2025, reaching record levels in both issuance volume and number of [..]
The Baltic Storage Platform (BSP) – a joint venture between Baltics leading renewable energy developer Evecon, French independent solar power producer Corsica Sole, and sustainable investment manager Mirova – today [..]
Baltic startup funding rose in 2025, with total venture capital deployed in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia startups reaching €607 million, up from €505 million in 2024. The details of this [..]
Estonia will ban Russian and Belarusian citizens without permanent resident status in the country from buying property, as well as companies acting on their behalf, citing security risks. While Estonia [..]
Danish and Greenlandic authorities have firmly rejected renewed statements by former U.S. President Donald Trump suggesting that the United States should seek control over Greenland, stressing that the Arctic territory [..]
Five Latvian nationals were detained overnight by Russian authorities after inadvertently crossing the eastern border over lake ice. After over a week of sub-zero temperatures, from Monday, Lake Peipus (Peipsi [..]
By Benas Gerdžiūnas, Austė Sargytė, LRT.lt. America’s seizure of Venezuela’s authoritarian leader marks a new stage in geopolitics. Washington is declaring its return to a 19th-century doctrine of “spheres of [..]
The United States carried out an overnight military operation in Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, and surrounding regions, with U.S. President Donald Trump claiming that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was detained during [..]
By Benas Gerdžiūnas, LRT.lt. People in Lithuania have noticed construction work taking place almost simultaneously on bridges close to the Belarusian border. The Lithuanian Armed Forces confirmed to LRT.lt that [..]
Finnish police have arrested two crew members of the Fitburg, a cargo ship seized Wednesday over damage to an Estonian–Finnish undersea communications cable. Finnish authorities detained the Fitburg on Wednesday [..]
Unusually heavy rainfall and thunderstorms have hit Dubai and other parts of the United Arab Emirates, leading to flooding on roads, traffic disruptions and repeated safety warnings from authorities. According [..]
By Benas Gerdžiūnas, LRT.lt. Lithuania’s civil society sector is organising protests against plans to politicise the public broadcaster, LRT. Here’s what’s been happening so far. Around 12,000 people – or [..]
The Riga Regional Court on Monday overturned a first-instance court ruling, convicting former Latvijas Dzelzceļš (Latvian Railways, LDz) CEO Uģis Magonis and Estonian businessman Oleg Ossinovski of bribery, and sentencing [..]
By Goda Malinauskaitė, Evaldas Labanauskas, LRT TV, LRT.lt. As Lithuanian trucking companies prepare a protest in Vilnius over thousands of vehicles stranded at the Belarus border, Prime Minister Inga Ruginienė [..]
According to LRT.lt, 29-year-old Benas Mikutavičius, suspected of killing two young women, was brought to Kaunas District Court on Sunday morning. The court approved the strictest preventive measure, ordering three [..]
BIOservicES, a project funded through the Horizon Europe programme (101112374), is publishing the results of a large-scale European survey analysing perceptions of the value and importance of soil ecosystem services [..]
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