President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with the European Union’s Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier.

Members of the Committee on European Affairs of the Seimas met with the Members of the European Parliament elected in Lithuania. The meeting discussed the most relevant issues on the EU agenda and plans for further cooperation between the Committee on European Affairs and Members of the European Parliament from Lithuania. The meeting was also attended by Linas Linkevičius, Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite on Monday vetoed amendments to the Civil Code on insulting public figures.

Islamic State survivors and Iraqi Yazidi activists Nadia Murad and Lamiya Aji Bashar, received Parliament’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought at the December plenary which was also the last one to be fully presided over by Martin Schulz. MEPs adopted a report on fundamental rights in the EU and updated Parliament's internal rules to improve procedures and transparency. Read about these and other subjects in our article.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius had a telephone conversation with Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, to whom the President-elect Donald Trump had offered the post of the national security adviser. Lithuania’s Foreign Minister stressed the country’s willingness to continue to closely cooperate in addressing regional and global threats, stressed the importance of the transatlantic relationship and the need to further strengthen the U.S. leadership in Europe.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė attended the European Council meeting which focused on the standstill in the process of ratification of the EU-Ukraine association agreement, the situation in Syria, the implementation of the Minsk agreements, new measures to strengthen EU security and defense, and migration.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who is attending the European Council meeting in Brussels, had a bilateral meeting with British Prime Minister Theresa May.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė is leaving for Brussels where she will attend the European Council meeting and have a bilateral meeting with British Prime Minister Theresa May on 15 December.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine in Kyiv. The Presidents chaired the ninth meeting of the Council of Presidents of Lithuania and Ukraine which saw the discussions on Ukraine’s eurointegration, security situation and strengthening of bilateral relations.

On 5–7 December 2016, a delegation of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, headed by Gediminas Kirkilas, Deputy Speaker of the Seimas, visited Washington, D.C. During the visit, Members of the Seimas, joined by members of the Estonian and Latvian parliamentary delegations, met with the leadership of the US Senate and Chairmen and Members of the Foreign Affairs Committees of both chambers of Congress, as well as the Senate Armed Services Committee. The widely representative joint high level meeting between US Senators and MPs from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia is a historic meeting targeted at further strengthening and deepening the transatlantic link and further developing interparliamentary cooperation.