President Dalia Grybauskaitė is leaving for Brussels to attend a two-day meeting of the European Council.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with Klaus-Heiner Lehne, President of the European Court of Auditors to discuss the reform of the Court of Auditors, auditors’ insights and proposals on the new EU multiannual framework as well as Lithuania’s priorities.

The Seimas ratified the Protocol of the North Atlantic Treaty on the Accession of the Republic of North Macedonia, signed in Brussels on 6 February this year. With this act, the Seimas carried out the national procedures necessary for its entry into force and, at the same time, provided legal preconditions for the Republic of Macedonia to join NATO.

On Tuesday, Parliament and the Commission will host a conference covering global ocean governance, a sustainable blue economy, and healthy, clean seas and oceans.

To ensure the least possible disruption, MEPs on Wednesday vote on travel, transport, Erasmus, social security and fisheries measures.

On 14 March, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius met with the President of the Assembly of the Republic of North Macedonia Talat Xhaferi, who is visiting Lithuania. The meeting discussed North Macedonia's integration with NATO and the European Union, regional security issues, and possibilities for strengthening our bilateral cooperation.

On 12 March, the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Albinas Zananavičius participated in an informal General Affairs Council (GAC) meeting in Bucharest, Romania. The meeting discussed the multiannual financial framework and the EU’s strategic agenda for the next five years.

On 7 March 2019, the leadership and the chairs of the committees, commissions and political groups of the Seimas discussed major tasks of the 6th (spring) session that the Seimas is due to commence on 10 March 2019.

Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis met with Prime Minister of Latvia Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš on his first visit to Lithuania to discuss the bilateral and regional cooperation, energy security and other relevant issues.

The state of play for Brexit, cybersecurity threats and EU-Russia relations are some of the topics for the upcoming plenary session in Strasbourg.