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Lithuanian President concludes official visit to Vietnam
Hanoi, June 12 (VNA) - Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda and his spouse Diana Nausediene, along with a high-ranking delegation of Lithuania, departed Hanoi on June 12 evening, concluding their two-day official visit to Vietnam at the invitation...

Is Europe going off the rails?
According to Eurostat, as of 2023, the European Union had more than 8,556 kilometers of dedicated high-speed rail lines. However, the overall size of the European railway network has contracted by 1.3% between 2013 and 2023. This is hardly the...

The Last Truck
4 Irina Khalip 11.07.2025, 10:42 9,820 Irina Khalip The museum in the prison and the park in Drozdá. There is a museum of testimony and memory in the Albanian city of Shkoder. At the entrance, where ticket prices are listed, it says: "For former...

Lithuanian scientists transform enzyme engineering with AI
Published on 13/06/2025 - 10:00 GMT+2 Enzymes are the hidden machinery behind many of today’s medical, industrial, and environmental advances – but conventional enzyme design methods have reached their limits. That’s where Laurynas Karpus (30),...
Lithuania lowers GDP forecast for 2025 amid global uncertainty
VILNIUS, June 12 (Xinhua) -- The Bank of Lithuania has revised down its 2025 GDP forecast by 0.1 percentage point, expecting the economy to grow by 2.8 percent this year, the Baltic News Service (BNS) reported on Thursday. In March, the central...

Innovative climate solutions in Europe: interactive map
Read more in the collection of publications about climate on YEP News — a news aggregator from “European Perspective” that brings together the best journalism from all over Europe in your language. Over the next decade, according to scientists’...

Lithuania, Japan Boost Defense Ties At Tokyo Business Forum
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 12. From June 8 to 10, Vice Minister of National Defence Loreta Maskaliovienė conducted a formal visit to Japan, where she opened the Lithuania–Japan Business Forum in Tokyo, Trend reports with...

Zelenskyy: Ukraine to begin export of military technology
Stock Photo: Getty Images Ukraine intends to begin exporting its military technologies to partner countries in Europe and beyond. This concerns specifically the production facilities for drones, missiles and possibly artillery weapons abroad....

Ukraine to sign agreements on start of exporting military technologies abroad in summer – Zelenskyy
Ukraine will sign agreements on the start of exporting its technologies abroad in the summer in the format of opening production lines for military technologies in European countries, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. "Furthermore, we...

Ukraine’s 2025 Build with Ukraine Program Boosts Military Tech Exports and Production
The summer of 2025 will mark a significant milestone for Ukraine, as the country plans to sign the first agreements under the Build with Ukraine program. This initiative involves exporting Ukrainian military technologies and establishing...

Welsh football team hit by lost luggage disaster after arriving for European qualifier without kit
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BrachyDOSE raises €554K to advance radiation injury prevention in cancer care
Medtech startup BrachyDOSE has raised €554,000 to test its radiation measurement technology in a clinical environment. BrachyDOSE is a patient-centric, data-driven measurement tool that helps doctors prevent up to 100 per cent of treatment-caused...
EIB Group increases 2025 financing ceiling to record €100 billion to step up investments in security and defence, energy grids and Europe’s tech leadership
- The 27 Member States endorse plan to increase new financing to record of up to €100 billion in 2025. - Revised ceiling includes 3.5% of total financing for European security and defence. EIB Board also approves landmark project for construction...

Ukrainian company DONS won third place at a hackathon focused on countering FPV drones using fiber-optic technology
Two U.S. companies and one Ukrainian team were named winners of the NATO Innovation Challenge 2025-II, an international competition focused on countering FPV drones with fiber-optic control. The winners will have the opportunity to further develop...

Swedish scaleup Flower wins TECH5 — the ‘Champions League of Tech’
Swedish energy tech pioneer Flower has won TECH5 — the “Champions League of Technology.” The company clinched the title of Europe’s hottest scaleup after developing a novel way to store energy and stabilise the grid. Flower works with clients...
Rail Baltica stretch to Vilnius to be built after 2030: ministry
VILNIUS, June 19 (Xinhua) -- The section of the Rail Baltica European-gauge railway to Vilnius will be built after 2030 once the construction of the main line is completed. Until then, a variable gauge mechanism could be temporarily used between...

Paris-Le Bourget (12): Lithuania selects Embraer’s C-390 Millennium as its military transport aircraft
The National Defence Ministry of Lithuania has announced in a statement that Embraer’s C-390 Millennium has been selected as the country's next-generation military transport aircraft. This strategic decision, paving the way for the acquisition of...

Boston Hosts Sixth North American-Lithuanian Business Forum
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 19. From June 9 to 11, Boston, Massachusetts, hosted the sixth North American Lithuanian Business Forum (NALB Forum), an annual gathering that brought together several hundred government...

Political Scientist: Belarusian Generals Should Think Twice
They have no immunity. Belarusian political scientist Anatoly Kotov in interview with Charter97.org told how the defeat of the Iranian regime will affect Lukashenko's dictatorship: - At the moment, the top of the IRGC, the army and the nuclear...

Military Sees the Strategic Benefits of Low-Carbon Tech, Says EU Expert
The re-arming of Europe looks set to become one of the most dynamic policy areas for the European Union in the foreseeable future. Hundreds of billions of euros will be invested between Portugal and Finland in the coming years to bolster national...