PoliticsViktoras Pranckietis, Speaker of the Seimas, nominated five candidates for Deputy Speakers of the Seimas as follows: Rima Baškienė and Arvydas Nekrošius from the Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union, Gediminas Kirkilas and Algirdas Butkevičius from the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party, and Irena Degutienė from the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats. In accordance with the Statute, the Seimas elected Viktoras Pranckietis as Speaker of the Seimas. On 10 November 2016, the Seimas met for its final sitting in the current legislative term (2012–2016). The Members of the Seimas who took office on 16 November 2012 are due to complete their mandate on 14 November, after the newly elected Members of the Seimas are sworn in. On November 9 UK Secretary of Defence Michael Fallon asserted at the Northern Group Defence Ministers meeting in Copenhagen (Denmark) that the United Kingdom would remain just as or perhaps an even more active partner in shaping European security policy. Lithuania’s Foreign Vice-Minister: Effective changes in the fight against unfair competition in international trade are necessary2016-11-12, 16:27On 11 November in Brussels, the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Raimundas Karoblis attended the EU’s Foreign Affairs Council on trade. The Council mainly aims to discuss the modernisation of the EU’s trade defence instruments. Nordea and DNB, Nordic banks operating in the Baltic states, could be sold after merger to one of Poland's biggest commercial banks PKO that purchased the Nordea business in Poland three years ago, 15min.lt news portal said on Friday. The Seimas adopted amendments to the Criminal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure (drafts No XIIP-4786(2) and No XIIP-4787(2) respectively). The amendments were drafted with a view to aligning Lithuanian criminal law with the requirements of the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions. EU enlargement process is a driving force for reforms in South Eastern Europe, an anchor of stability and security, says Foreign Minister2016-11-10, 14:31On 9 November, the European Commission adopted its ‘Enlargement package’ – a set of documents explaining its policy on EU enlargement, which contains the 2016 Reports, in which the Commission services present their detailed assessment of the state of play in each candidate country and potential candidate: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Serbia. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius stressed that even when the EU was facing hard times and challenges, the enlargement process remained the key driving force for the transformation and modernization of the candidate countries, an anchor of stability and security in South Eastern Europe. Seimas Committee on European Affairs presented with the annual report of the Court of Auditors on the implementation of the EU budget 20152016-11-09, 14:49Rimantas Šadžius, Member of the European Court of Auditors, presented to the Seimas Committee on European Affairs the annual report of the Court of Auditors on the implementation of the budget concerning the financial year 2015. The free trade agreement between the EU and Canada and the future of the EU's trade policy will be debated by MEPs this week as committees are meeting. On the agenda are issues such as a data protection agreement between the EU and the US, aviation safety rules to meet new challenges such as drones and the ongoing investigation into the Panama papers. |
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