On Tuesday, President Gitanas Nausėda participated remotely in the Friends of Competitiveness Group meeting, held in preparation for the European Council meeting on 19–20 March in Brussels. The participants discussed energy prices, the deepening of the European Union’s single market, and the reduction of bureaucracy.

The Commission should, MEPs say, propose EU legislation establishing a common definition of rape based on the concept of freely given, informed and revocable consent.

The security of the European Union’s eastern border is the security of the entire EU, emphasised Prime Minister Inga Ruginienė, who today met in Brussels with the Prime Ministers of Latvia and Estonia alongside the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.

On Tuesday, the International Trade Committee adopted a series of measures to counteract the negative impact of global overproduction on the EU steel market.

On Sunday, President Gitanas Nausėda met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine and President Karol Nawrocki of Poland.

On Monday, Prime Minister Inga Ruginienė met, in her office, with Germany’s Federal Foreign Minister Johann to discuss the strategic partnership between Lithuania and Germany, the regional security situation, and the strengthening of NATO’s eastern flank, along with other current issues.

On November 26, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kęstutis Budrys, participated in an extraordinary online meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council where discussions focused on negotiations to end Russia’s war in Ukraine and the necessary steps the EU must take in this process.

On Friday, President Gitanas Nausėda met with Henna Virkkunen, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for tech sovereignty, security, and democracy, as well as forstrengthening external borders.

European Parliament’s spokespersons will hold a last-minute briefing on the 12 - 13 November plenary session tomorrow at 14.30.

President Gitanas Nausėda extended his congratulations to the President of Poland, Karol Nawrocki, and to all the people of the country on the occasion of Poland’s Independence Day.