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Lithuania’s National Paying Agency (NMA) has initiated the termination of an €8 million contract with IT companies iTree Lietuva and ISense Technologies for the modernisation of the country’s agricultural support…
Lithuania’s GDP reached €85.1 billion in 2025, with real economic growth of 3.0%, according to the latest annual national accounts estimate. The previous quarterly-data estimate had put GDP at €84.3…
July interrupted Estonia’s return towards export parity with Latvia. But the underlying numbers show why gross export growth alone gives an incomplete picture of the Baltic economies. In August, Baltic…
Food prices are falling across the Baltics while fuel costs are rising. Yet annual inflation in August ranged from 1.5% in Estonia to 3.2% in Latvia and 6.1% in Lithuania.…
Across the Baltics, ageing and a shrinking domestic labour base are tightening labour supply. By mid-2026, however, the pressure was showing up very differently in each of the three markets.…
Source: State Data Agency Lithuania; Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia; Statistics EstoniaThe Baltic states entered H2 2026 with sharply different inflation rates.
Source: EurostatAll three Baltic economies reported positive annual GDP growth. But the internal structure of that growth was uneven.
Source: Statistics Estonia
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Latvia and Lithuania ranked ahead of Finland in mobile data consumption per subscription in 2025, taking the top two positions in the OECD. Latvia averaged 66…
This week’s Baltic Focus Weekly Brief looks at labour-market pressure across the three Baltic states, alongside new investment, housing, energy, defence and transport signals. The common…
airBaltic’s Chapter 11 filing and Ryanair’s new Baltic proposal turned aviation capacity into one of the week’s biggest regional questions. At the same time, diesel prices…
Estonia is growing again. SEB expects GDP to expand by 2.5% in 2026, 2.7% in 2027 and 2.8% in 2028 — respectable rates for an economy operating in much less favourable conditions than during the rapid convergence years.…
PhotoA cyberattack on Latvia’s Road Traffic Safety Directorate (CSDD) has developed into a wider governance crisis after authorities disclosed the scale of the breach and shortcomings in the institution’s cybersecurity arrangements. Data affecting 1.2 million individuals and around…
PhotoEstonia received €256.5 million from EU ETS carbon allowance auctions in 2025
PhotoLatvia paid €168.1 million from the state budget to NGOs in 2025. The funding went to 1,940 organisations — about 7% of the country’s 27,884 registered associations and foundations. The figures are at the centre of a sharp…
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PhotoThe Lithuanian-owned accessories brand is combining Asian manufacturing inputs with design, printing, assembly and global fulfilment in Kaunas. Its new facility shows how a digital-first exporter is turning international demand into physical industrial capacity at home. Lithuanian accessories…
PhotoMere stores in Latvia and Lithuania have closed after Russian businessman Sergey Schneider was added to the EU sanctions list. In Latvia, the chain operated 12 stores through SIA Latprodukti and the Latvian branch of Lithuania-registered Valiente. Latprodukti…
PhotoLithuania’s State Tax Inspectorate, VMI, has published its taxpayer rankings for the first quarter of 2026.
PhotoAround 7,000 reportedly stolen employee passwords, deleted backups, a possible personal data breach and a state-owned company linked to election-system development: the cyberattack on Latvijas valsts meži (LVM) has moved beyond a normal company-level IT incident.
PhotoThe central bank expects the economy to expand by 2.4% in 2026, supported mainly by stronger spending from households and the general government.
PhotoWorking frame The week is about capacity: energy, rail, capital, airports, labour, exports, digital resilience and state delivery. The useful question is not only what happened, but what each signal says about the Baltic region’s ability to turn…
PhotoAraneta, the company behind the Baldų turgus furniture retail brand, has acquired a 16,000 sq. m logistics, showroom and office facility in the Kaunas Free Economic Zone for €16m. The buyer is not a logistics real estate fund…
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