The EU’s Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) has signed two agreements worth €1.4bn in an effort to speed up completion of the Rail Baltica project. Of this amount, €1.2bn will be…

Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland have asked the EU to help them pay for new fortifications along their borders with Russia and its ally, Belarus. The defence ministers of the…

Lithuania this week started building a 170-hectare military base to house some 4,000 combat-ready German troops about 20km from the border with Belarus, Russia’s close ally. The move comes in…

The planned Rail Baltica high-speed rail corridor connecting Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to Poland and the European rail network could end up costing €19bn more than planned, state auditors in the three countries warned on Wednesday.

A €45m contract has been awarded to Estonian construction company Merko Ehitus to build foundations and roads for a 28-turbines windfarm located in Lithuania’s western Kelmė district. Merko Ehitus subsidiary…

Vilnius’ local government has green lit Business Stadium Central, a 24,000 sq m mixed-use development centred around two buildings designed by Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) for Lithuanian developer Hanner. Business…

A consortium of Jacobs, Westinghouse and the Lithuanian Energy Institute has landed a decommissioning contract for Lithuania’s Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP). The Soviet-designed plant could be the first graphite-moderated…