As part of the follow-up to the European Pillar of Social Rights, the European Commission has adopted today a proposal for a new Directive for more transparent and predictable working conditions across the EU. The Commission's proposal complements and modernises existing obligations to inform each worker of his or her working conditions. In addition, the proposal creates new minimum standards to ensure that all workers, including those on atypical contracts, benefit from more predictability and clarity as regards their working conditions.

MEPs and Members of the ACP call for sustainable economic development for the benefit of local communities.

The EPLO in the UK organised a debate in York aimed at understanding the implications of Brexit for the agricultural sector.

At a meeting of the Government on December 20 it was recognised that Kaspersky Lab software is a potential national security threat and managers of critical information infrastructure and state information resources have to replace it with safe equivalents in a short while.

By 76 votes in favour, 7 votes against and 7 abstentions, the Seimas adopted a Resolution on the application of summer-time arrangements on the territory of the Republic of Lithuania (draft No. XIIIP-1288(4)).

The Seimas Committee on European Affairs met with Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis, Member of the European Commission, to hear a presentation on the Annual Growth Survey 2018 (hereinafter referred to as the Survey). The Survey marks the beginning of the eighth cycle of the European Semester and covers three areas where economic policy coordination is needed: 1) structural reforms focused on promoting growth and employment in line with the Europe 2020 strategy; 2) fiscal policies to ensure sustainability of public finance in line with the Stability and Growth Pact; and 3) prevention of excessive macroeconomic imbalances.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite has signed 2018 year's state budget bill into law, her office said on Wednesday.

The inter-institutional working group for nuclear, radiation environmental safety of nuclear power plants built in the neighbourhood of Lithuania that is headed by the Lithuanian Foreign Minister, Linas Linkevičius, gathered for a meeting on 18 December 2017.

“This project marks a qualitative step forward in modernising the armed forces, providing it with up-to-date equipment and weaponry, which brings it closer to NATO standards and contributes directly to the enhancement of our common security,” Minister of National Defence Raimundas Karoblis said on December 18 after viewing the first two training Vilkas IFVs delivered to the Lithuanian Armed Forces Vehicle and Equipment Deport in Kaunas.

The Venezuelan opposition receives Parliament's Sakharov Prize, while MEPs also approved the reform of the EU's agricultural policy during December's plenary session.