A referendum on reducing the number of lawmakers to 121 from the existing 141 will be held on May 12 alongside the presidential election in Lithuania, the country's parliament has decided after 58 lawmakers voted in favor on Thursday, 42 were against and two abstained.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė will go on a state visit to Poland where she will meet with the leaders of Poland: President Andrzej Duda, Marshal of the Sejm Marek Kuchciński, Marshal of the Senate Stanislaw Karczewski, and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.

Banks should charge equally for cross-border payments in euro and domestic payments and make currency conversion costs transparent, say new rules.

Europe is facing “a fork in the road”, as “the people are urgently asking to be heard,” Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte told MEPs on Tuesday.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen at the Great Lithuanian Hetman Jonušas Radvila Training Regiment in Rukla.

Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis has met with Latvia’s Prime Minister Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš to discuss prospects for the bilateral cooperation.

“Over the past two years the European Union has made substantial progress in strengthening defence however, we have to ensure efficient implementation of the existing projects, tangible results and further investment in defence,” Minister of National Defence Raimunas Karoblis stated at the EU Defence Ministers’ meeting in Bucharest earlier today. EU Defence Ministers discussed implementation of joint EU defence initiatives, such as the Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO), European Defence Fund, Military Mobility, at the event.

Parliament adopted changes to its internal rules on Thursday to operate more efficiently and in a more transparent way.

The Board of the Seimas decided to endorse the following Long-term Priorities for International Cooperation of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania:

Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis has met with President of the State of Israel Reuven Rivlin.