The Lithuanian Cabinet approved the central government draft budget for 2025; budget revenues are expected to grow by 5,9%, to €17,98 billion, and expenditures are expected to increase by 11,7%, to €23,02 billion; budget deficit is projected at 3% of GDP

The government gave the go-ahead for the purchase of 155 mm artillery shells for the German- and French-made PzH 2000 and Caesar self-propelled howitzers of the Lithuanian Armed Forces from German company Rheinmetall without public procurement procedures

Over €1,5 million have been budgeted by Vilnius authorities to clean the city of graffiti

The government has approved a three-year action plan on diaspora policy focusing on education, culture and national security; the plan also includes the possibility of conducting a global census of people of Lithuanian origin to take stock of the diaspora

Almost 87% of the heat produced in Vilnius will be ‘clean’ thanks to the activation of the most powerful heat pump in the Baltic States, within the territory of Vilnius Power Plant 2, operated by Vilniaus Šilumos Tinklai