On Wednesday at 14.00, Roberta Metsola, EP President, and co-rapporteurs, Siegfried Mureșan and Carla Tavares will speak to journalists on the priorities for the next long-term EU budget.

European Parliament’s spokespersons will hold a last-minute briefing on the 5 - 8 May plenary session today at 16.30.

On 17 April 2025, a discussion took place in the Seimas Plenary Chamber, focusing on the Political Guidelines for the new European Commission 2024-2029 and the Vision for Agriculture and Food. The priorities of the Seimas within the framework of the 2025 Commission work programme were also introduced.

The draft law adopted on Thursday seeks to address speculation on the gas market and bring down prices, by introducing greater flexibility in rules on gas storage refilling.

On Wednesday, the Civil Liberties Committee endorsed plans to gradually roll out the Entry-Exit System (EES) at the EU’s external borders.

NATO Director of Nuclear Policy Jim Stokes underscores that nuclear weapons are not for attacks, rather, their function is to preserve peace and deter the aggressor. According to the NATO official, even though not a nuclear state, Lithuania is a full-fledged shaper of NATO’s nuclear policy. The topic was addressed at the latest Ministry of National Defence podcast KAS ir KAM?

On 10 April, Lithuania's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kęstutis Budrys, met with the French Ambassador to Lithuania, Alix Everard. The Minister and the Ambassador discussed bilateral cooperation, support for Ukraine, and European security issues.

On 9 April in Vilnius, Laimonas Talat-Kelpša, the Political Director at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, received the Undersecretary of State and acting as the Political Director at the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Robert Kupiecki, for political consultations. Kupiecki also met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, Kęstutis Budrys, and the Foreign Vice-Minister Julius Pranevičius.

While marking the 21st anniversary of Lithuania’s membership of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on National Security and Defence adopted a joint statement emphasising that, upon joining the strongest defensive Alliance on 29 March 2004, Lithuania had not only enhanced its national security but had also committed itself to upholding NATO’s principles of collective defence, shared democratic values, and the unity and solidarity of its members. This is particularly relevant given the complexities presented by the geopolitical shifts in the world and the region, the threats to the long-standing multilateral security architecture of Western democracies, and the challenges to international law and the rule of law as the basis for coexistence among states.

Parliament calls for measures to bolster the competitiveness of energy-intensive industries and help them make the transition to clean industrial processes.