A proposal from the Ministry of the Economy and Innovation to legitimise the so-called Freedom ID has been submitted to the Government. This ID will help to free up many businesses and bring some people back to activities that are paralysed due to the quarantine restrictions. 

At the meeting with Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine and Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov on Thursday, Minister of the Economy and Innovation Aušrinė Armonaitė discussed the importance of digitisation and open data and offered Lithuania’s support and expert assistance for Ukraine to join the Common ...

Minister of the Economy and Innovation Aušrinė Armonaitė met with prominent Lithuanian women scientists and discussed possibilities of how to raise more talents capable of developing innovation in Lithuania and how to encourage girls to more actively choose studies and professions of natural and exact sciences.  

From Monday (15 February), the restrictions on quarantine for business will be eased; it will be possible to provide beauty treatment and other individual services while maintaining safe distance; non-food and flower shops will be able to resume activities. The Lithuanian Government has approved these proposals.

The Ministry of the Economy and Innovation will provide EUR30 million to test small and medium-sized business representatives for coronavirus. Businesses will be partially reimbursed for rapid tests and tests carried out in health care establishments. One rapid serological test or a rapid antigen test will ...

Minister of the Economy and Innovation Aušrinė Armonaitė, who met remotely with Director General of SE Centre of Registers Saulius Urbanavičius, talked about how to open data to the business and society, also, discussed data security issues and a possibility of establishing a digital embassy.  

At the meeting with Belarusian civil society leader Sviatlana Cichanouskaja, Minister of the Economy and Innovation Aušrinė Armonaitė discussed measures to be introduced to facilitate conditions for Belarusian enterprises persecuted by the political regime to continue their activities in Lithuania. The Minister also stressed that she supports and will ...

Minister of the Economy and Innovation Aušrinė Armonaitė, who had a remote meeting with Director General of Invest Lithuania Mantas Katinas today, says this institution should make maximum use of the existing situation in the world both by attracting investments to our country and by helping businesses of third countries to get established in ...

Today, Minister of the Economy and Innovation Aušrinė Armonaitė spoke by phone with the Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Development, Labour and Technology Jarosław Gowin. During the conversation, it was discussed how, in the difficult situation due to the coronavirus, Poland would ensure that ...

The political team of Minister of the Economy and Innovation Aušinė Armonaitė is joined by Vice Ministers Jovita Neliupšienė and Vincas Jurgutis, Chancellor Iveta Paludnevičiūtė and Advisers Karolis Žemaitis and Birutė Rutkauskaitė. 

Today, after the oath at the Seimas, the Seimas Member Aušrinė Armonaitė takes office as Minister of the Economy and Innovation. She is replacing Rimantas Sinkevičius, who was the leader of the Ministry for almost six months.

The 13rd Baltic Sea Tourism Forum (BJTF) was launched on 10 November. It is one of the events of the Lithuanian Presidency of the Council of the Baltic Sea States. The four-day forum will discuss the current tourism situation in the Baltic Sea Region, possible actions and initiatives aimed to overcome unforeseen challenges; it will also cover the importance ...