The winner of this year's Sakharov Prize will be announced during next week's plenary session, while MEPs will also debate press freedom and sexual harassment.

The European Council, attended by Dalia Grybauskaitė, charged the European Commission to specify how the provisions of the EU‘s Third Energy Package were applied to third countries.

The Seimas launched the debate on the draft Law on Approving the Financial Indicators of the State Budget and Municipal Budgets for 2018. (No XIIIP-1227) introduced by Vilius Šapoka, Minister of Finance. The draft focuses on poverty reduction, ensuring national security, promotion of entrepreneurship and productive investment, as well as greater municipal budgets and higher financial autonomy.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė attends the European Council working breakfast where discussions are held on EU’s priority actions for the next two years.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė leaves for Brussels to attend the European Council meeting. The heads of state and government will discuss EU security and defense policy, response to hybrid threats, migration challenges, relations with Turkey, topicalities of international politics and Brexit negotiations. The EU leaders will also focus on concrete priority work in the EU for the coming two years.

On 15–17 October 2017, Viktoras Pranckietis, Speaker of the Seimas, paid an official visit to Bucharest, Romania, where he met with the leadership of the Romanian Parliament and representatives of the Government. The Speaker of the Seimas met with Călin Popescu-Tǎriceanu, President of the Romanian Senate; Nicolae-Liviu Dragnea, President of the Chamber of Deputies; Grațiela Gavrilescu, Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Environment; and Teodor-Viorel Meleșcanu, Minister of Foreign Affairs. The meetings focused on closer bilateral security and economic cooperation, cooperation between the European Union and Eastern Partnership countries, as well as top matters related to energy, security, politics, and economy.

Julius Sabatauskas, Chair of the Seimas Committee on Legal Affairs, Rimas Andrikis, Deputy Chair of the Committee on European Affairs, and Jonas Jarutis, Member of the National Security and Defence Committee, visited Brussels between 8 and 10 October 2017. They participated in the meeting establishing a Joint Parliamentary Scrutiny Group (JPSG) that will carry out parliamentary scrutiny of Europol activities. The meeting was arranged by the European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) and the Parliament of Estonia holding the Presidency of the Council of the EU.

MEPs vote this week on new EU rules for taking in asylum seekers, recommendations on how to prevent tax evasion, and a proposal regarding posted workers.

Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis met with Margrethe Vestager, Member of the European Commission, responsible for EU competition policy to discuss the need for fair competition and the effective functioning of the European Union’s internal market. Commissioner Vestager presented the EC decision on the Rengė railway stretch.

By 87 votes in favour, the Seimas unanimously adopted a resolution on the participation of military units of the Republic of Lithuania in international military operations (draft No XIIIP-1048(2).