PoliticsThe Baltic States join efforts to ensure security2013-10-30, 17:51On October 31, at 10:00 a.m., President Dalia Grybauskaitė will meet with Latvian President Andris Bērziņš and Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves at the Bīriņi Castle in Latvia. EU internal energy market is in the interest of Lithuania and Spain2013-10-30, 12:00President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel García-Margallo. The meeting focused on the Lithuanian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, preparations for the upcoming Vilnius Summit, and other important EU matters. The discussion also included bilateral relations between Lithuania and Spain as well as an issue of importance to both countries - completion of the EU's internal energy market. The EU waits for Ukraine’s progress in the run-up to the Vilnius Summit2013-10-29, 11:40President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with Pat Cox who leads a European Parliament monitoring mission in Ukraine. He has been co-leading the mission together with the former Polish President Aleksander Kwaśniewski since June 2012. Dalia Grybauskaitė congratulated President-elect of Georgia2013-10-28, 12:35President Dalia Grybauskaitė extended congratulations to the President-elect of Georgia, Giorgi Margvelashvili. Prime Minister‘s meeting with the Secretary General of the World Customs Organization2013-10-27, 13:03On 25 October, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has welcomed Secretary General of the World Customs Organization Kunio Mikuriya, who came to Lithuania to participate in high-level seminar on customs cooperation in the EU 's eastern border. Dalia Grybauskaitė congratulated Austria’s President on national day2013-10-26, 13:00President Dalia Grybauskaitė congratulated, on behalf of the Lithuanian people and on her own behalf, President Heinz Fischer of Austria on the occasion of the Austrian National Day. Future of the Eastern Partnership discussion in Brussels2013-10-25, 14:42In the discussion "The Eastern Partnership beyond Vilnius – Opportunities and Challenges" in Brussels on 24 October, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, Andrius Krivas, stressed that the future of the initiative would depend on the European Union as well as the Eastern Partners. The President co-chaired the highest-level EU social forum2013-10-24, 18:30President Dalia Grybauskaitė together with European Council President Herman van Rompuy and European Commission President José Manuel Barroso co-chaired the EU Tripartite Social Summit. Lithuanian EU Presidency tasks – on the European Council agenda2013-10-23, 17:11President Dalia Grybauskaitė has departed for Brussels where she will attend a European Council meeting. The main focus of the meeting will be on one of Lithuania's EU Presidency priorities - progress towards completing the EU digital single market. European leaders will discuss how to promote innovations, advance electronic trading, improve business environment in the cyberspace and attract larger investments, as well as to foster digital skills of European citizens. On Monday 21st October, Minister of Education and Science Dainius Pavalkis announced that graduates of schools (both with the Lithuanian teaching language and national minorities' schools) will take the unified matriculation exam of the Lithuanian language and literature. He declared it to journalists after leaving the office of the speaker of the Seimas Loreta Graužinienė. 'This is a personal political gambit of the minister,' this is how Valdemar Tomaševski, leader of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (EAPL), Member of the European Parliament comments on a statement of the head of education resort. |
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