The meeting between the Speaker of the Seimas, Loreta Graužinienė, and the Slovenian Ambassador to Lithuania, Robert Krmelj, centred on bilateral relations between Lithuania and Slovenia. This year, the Parliamentary Friendship Group with Lithuania has been set up at the Slovenian National Assembly and, according to Ms Graužinienė, this will even more contribute to closer cooperation between the Parliaments of our countries.

Considering the results of the analysis of the implications of summer time, the Seimas decided to suggest the Government should bring forward, by 30 April 2016 at the latest, a proposal to the European Commission that each Member State of the European Union could make its own summertime arrangements within its territory.

On November 29, President Dalia Grybauskaitė is leaving for Brussels and Paris on a two-day working visit. On Sunday, she will attend the EU-Turkey summit in the Belgian capital. On November 30, the President will deliver a speech at the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris.

Refugees should not be equated with terrorists, many MEPs said during a debate on the terrorist attacks in Paris during the November plenary session. They also approved the EU's budget for next year, securing additional funding for tackling the refugee crisis and boosting economic growth. Meanwhile the Lux Prize, Parliament's annual film award, was given to Mustang, a film directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven about five Turkish girls breaking with tradition.

The Seimas adopted, by 66 votes in favour, 8 against and 22 abstentions, the amendments to the Law on the Legal Status of Aliens.

The delegation of the Seimas Committee on European Affairs, which included Vydas Gedvilas, First Deputy Speaker of the Seimas, Gediminas Kirkilas, Deputy Speaker of the Seimas and Chair of the Committee on European Affairs, Andrius Kubilius, leader of the opposition, and Emanuelis Zingeris, Head of the Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with the United States of America (USA) and Deputy Chair of the Committee on European Affairs, visited Washington, the USA, on 16–20 November 2015. During the intensive visit, the delegation met with Ron Johnson, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Europe and Regional Security Cooperation of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Dana Rohrabacher, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, members of the House Baltic Caucus, and other influential politicians of the US Senate and House of Representatives.

Buying insurance will be made easier and safer following Parliament's vote on Tuesday tightening EU rules on the information and advice provided by insurance sales staff. The current rules on sales of insurance have been amended to introduce similar information and consumer protection requirements for all insurance distribution channels unless they meet the conditions for exemption.

At the invitation of President Dalia Grybauskaitė, a meeting between the Presidents of the Baltic States was held in Palanga. A traditional, top-level meeting, which was attended by Latvian President Raimonds Vējonis and Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, is held every year in a different Baltic state. Last year, the Presidents of the Baltic countries met in Estonia.

MEPs called on Wednesday for more focus on migration and security and more flexibility in the revised European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), after foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and neighbourhood policy Commissioner Johannes Hahn presented their proposals for a new ENP to the foreign affairs committee.