President Antonio Tajani stressed the need for an EU strategy to manage migration at the start of a European Council summit dedicated to economic issues and Brexit.

On 22 March, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius met with the Chairman of Luhansk Regional Military and Civil Administration Yuriy Harbuz in Vilnius.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė is attending the European Council where the EU-U.S. trade relations following the U.S. President’s decision to grant temporary tariff exemptions on steel and aluminum imported from the EU are on the agenda.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė will attend the European Council meeting on 22 -23 March. EU leaders will focus on economic situation in the European Union, EU-US trade relations, strengthening of the euro area and EU response to Russia’s chemical attack in the United Kingdom. The EU-27 will also discuss guidelines for the negotiation on the future relationship with the United Kingdom.

Workers sent temporarily to another EU country would from now on get equal pay for equal work in the same place, under a provisional deal between MEPs and EU Ministers.

MEPs vote on measures to make foreign gas suppliers comply with EU rules, discuss how to protect terrorism victims and raise concerns about a drop in vaccinations.

On 14 March, the Political Director Asta Skaisgirytė took part in political consultations in Rome. Skaisgirytė met with the Italian Political Director at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome Luca Giansanti and discussed issues of security and defence, the Eastern Partnership initiative, Russia, the Middle East, North Africa, and Western Balkans.

Firms would be taxed where they earn their profits under a proposed harmonised corporate tax system which uses the online activities of digital firms to calculate their tax bills.

In a busy week in Strasbourg MEPs called for an ambitious EU budget, voted in favour of increasing transparency on parcel delivery prices and condemned new US tariffs on steel.

On 14 March, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius congratulated the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany Heiko Maas on his appointment as the head of diplomacy. In his letter, Lithuania’s Foreign Minister highlighted the partnership between the two countries, as well as cooperation at the European level and within NATO.