On March 3 Vilnius hosts an international expert-level conference EU Global Strategy: Eastern Partners in European Security. At the conference security challenges to European security and further security and defence cooperation between the European Union and Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries will be discussed.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė and Slovenian President Borut Pahor visited a center for the distribution of refugees and migrants on the Slovenia-Croatia border in Dobova and met with Lithuanian police officers serving there. Lithuanian officers help to manage the flows of refugees crossing into Slovenia from Greece via the Western Balkan countries, ensure their registration, distribution and public order.

Seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate in the euro area reduced to 10.3% in January 2016 from 10.4% in December 2015.

On February 27 two Eurofighter Typhoon fighter aircraft of the Spanish Air Force conducting the NATO Air Policing Mission in the Baltic States responded to a an alert which is their direct task.

Global BOD Group, the owner of Lithuania's high-tech and renewable energy companies, and officials representing Indonesia's Cirebon region, who visited Vilnius last week, have signed a letter of intent on the construction of solar power projects totaling 10 megawatts (MW).

Real estate developer Hanner will invest 40 million euros in the development of commercial and residential property projects in Lithuania in 2016, 29% less than in 2015.

Every year 430,000 Europeans die prematurely due to air pollution. One of the main sources is road vehicles emitting nitrogen oxides (NOx), including poisonous nitrogen dioxide. Following the Volkswagen scandal, in which the company admitted cheating emission test in the US, Parliament and the Council are considering to update existing emission rules to ensure tests are closer to real driving conditions.

A law to revamp the European Employment Services (EURES) network with an EU-wide database of job seekers and vacancies was approved by Parliament on Thursday. The aim is to help fight unemployment by better matching labour market supply and demand. Updated rules, already agreed with the Council, will also pay more attention to cross-border regions and young people.

Lithuania's power transmission system operator Litgrid plans to start in the near future the upgrading of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) switchyard and to develop Vilnius electricity system reinforcement projects as part of preparations for synchronizing the country's grid with Western European networks.