On 29 March, the OECD Investment Committee in Paris approved a formal opinion, acknowledging that Lithuania met the OECD investment requirements. The Committee’s positive opinion affirms Lithuania’s openness to investment and increases the country’s attractiveness for Foreign Direct Investments.

MEPs called for action to safeguard media freedom, pluralism and independence on Tuesday, following the rise of fake news and the recent murders of two investigative journalists in the EU.

All EU regions should continue receiving sufficient resources to co-fund their regional development projects after 2020, MEPs say.

Parliamentary committees deal this week with protection from carcinogens, attacks on journalists and the appointment of the European Commission’s new secretary general.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, Prime minister of Estonia Jüri Ratas, Prime Minister of Latvia Māris Kučinskis and Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki. At the high-level five-party meeting, the leaders adopted a joint statement establishing a commitment to synchronize Baltic power grids with continental Europe via Poland before 2025.

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.