POLITICS The 10th Snow Meeting to be held in Trakai An informal Snow Meeting will bring together Lithuanian and foreign security policy experts for the tenth time to discuss the main challenges facing the transatlantic community today and responses to them. More Common European history of Lithuania and Ukraine laid a solid foundation for their common European future On 4 January in Vilnius, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius met with the authors and publishers of a historical book about the House of Wiśniowiecki of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which was selected as the best book of 2016 in Ukraine. More ECONOMY Fintech company Contis Group set up a new division in Vilnius Contis Group, a leading European alternative banking and payments solutions group, is to set up a new division in Vilnius, Lithuania as part of its €1 million investment plan over the next two years, companies representative informs BC. More SOCIETY, CULTURE, SPORTS AND HISTORY: Bank of Lithuania:100th anniversary of the State commemorated with a special series of five euro coins The Bank of Lithuania will commemorate the 100th anniversary of our State by issuing four collector coins – one gold and three silver – and a 2 euro commemorative coin jointly with the central banks of Latvia and Estonia. More Information based on MFA
