PoliticsOn Sunday, President Gitanas Nausėda met with Polish President Andrzej Duda, who is visiting Lithuania. The Lithuanian and Polish leaders discussed bilateral defense cooperation, the security situation in the region, the course of Russia’s war in Ukraine, and assistance to Ukraine. 
Prime Minister discusses strengthening of EU security and defence industry with Commissioner Thierry Breton2024-01-19, 16:10Earlier today, Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė held a meeting with European Commissioner for Internal market Thierry Breton at the Office of the Government to discuss strengthening of the European Union’s security and defence industry, and key priorities for the future strategy, also the importance of continued support for Ukraine. On January 18-19 Riga, capital of Latvia, will host a Baltic Defence Ministerial meeting. Baltic Defence Ministers Arvydas Anušauskas, Andris Sprūds (Latvia) and Hanno Pevkur (Estonia) will discuss status of joint Baltic projects, preparations for the NATO Summit in Washington and support to Ukraine. On Wednesday morning, MEPs discussed the December European Council, the upcoming 1 February special summit, and assessed the situation in Hungary. On Tuesday, MEPs discussed the programme of Belgium’s six-month Council Presidency, which started on 1 January, with Prime Minister Alexander De Croo. President Metsola opened the 15-18 January plenary session in Strasbourg with the following announcements. On Wednesday, Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė met with the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, who is visiting Lithuania, at the Government House. The meeting was also attended by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and Lithuania, Dmytro Kuleba and Gabrielius Landsbergis. On Wednesday, President Gitanas Nausėda met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, who has arrived in Lithuania. The Lithuanian and Ukrainian leaders discussed the course of the war in Ukraine, the security and defense situation in the region, as well as military assistance to Ukraine. Just after the new year, Lithuanian nationalists launched a new campaign against national minority schools. This time against schools with Russian teaching language. Quite recently, an attack was carried out on the Polish Primary School of Andžej Stelmachovski in Senieji Trakai and on Polish Gymnasium of Longin Komolovski in Paluknys in Trakai district. It happened despite the fact that yet in 2000 Lithuania has signed and ratified without exceptions the Framework Convention for the Protection of the Rights of National Minorities, which guarantees autochthonous national minorities, among other things, the right to their national schools. 
Speaker of the Seimas: ‘The situation calls for a deeper integration between Lithuania and Poland’2024-01-09, 10:08Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen, Speaker of the Seimas, had a video call with Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska, a new Marshal of the Polish Senate. The Speaker of the Seimas underlined that Poland was Lithuania’s strategic ally and that both countries shared a common historical past, close people-to-people ties, common challenges and an identical approach to threats. |
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