On 10 April 2010, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis submitted the Government Annual Performance Report to the Seimas. The Report highlights that the year 2017 was particularly successful for the Lithuanian economy. Moreover, the tasks and structural reforms (in taxation, innovation, education, health, pension system and reduction of the new shadow economy) planned by the Government for 2018 will significantly contribute to a better quality of life of each person in Lithuania.

At its meeting with a delegation of the Committee on Budgetary Control of the European Parliament, the Committee on European Affairs discussed the course of developments in the decommissioning projects of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (NPP). Members of the Committee on European Affairs and chairs of other Seimas committees stressed the progress achieved in implementing the projects in the Ignalina NPP and their importance for the national security of Lithuania and for the security of the whole European Union.

By observing a minute of silence at its sitting, the Seimas paid tribute to the memory of the Polish President Lech Kaczyński and other Polish citizens who died in an air crash eight years ago.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with President Emmanuel Macron of France at the Élysée Palace and attended working lunch of the French and Baltic Presidents. At the Élysée Palace, the leaders of the Baltic states discussed President Macron’s proposals on reforming the EU’s future, enhancing security and bilateral cooperation.

Common asylum system. A new draft regulation establishing a common single procedure for asylum claims, as part of the review of the Common European Asylum System, will be put to the vote in the Civil Liberties Committee. The new rules aim to avoid so-called asylum-shopping and would simplify and shorten asylum procedures and offer guarantees for asylum seekers. The draft regulation also clarifies and harmonises the concept of safe countries of origin. (Thursday)

Minister of National Defence Raimundas Karoblis attended the Baltic-US summit on April 3 alongside President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė and Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius. At the event, President of the United States of America Donald Trump expressed full support in ensuring the security of the Baltic states and called them staunch allies that not only invest into their own security but also contribute to security worldwide.

On 3 April in Washington, D.C., the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius participated in a discussion on cooperation between the Baltic states and the U.S.A. The discussion was organized by a well-known think tank – the Atlantic Council.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with President Donald Trump and together with the Presidents of Latvia and Estonia attended the summit meeting of the Baltic countries and the United States in the White House.

The appointment of Martin Selmayr as EU Commission Secretary General lacked transparency, Budgetary Control MEPs said in a hearing with Commissioner Oettinger.