Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė and Italian President Sergio Mattarella discussed the geopolitical situation, threats to European security, migration policies, the experience of both countries in fighting corruption, and prospects for bilateral cooperation.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with the new President of Latvia, Raimonds Vējonis, who arrived in Lithuania on a working visit. This is one of his first foreign visits. The Presidents discussed prospects for strengthening bilateral and regional cooperation, the further development of joint energy and transport projects and the security issues of the Baltic region and the whole of Europe.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who is attending the Euro Summit meeting, underlined that Greece's future in the euro zone depended on Greece only – on the its government's readiness to assume responsibility and implement urgent reforms to stabilize the financial situation.

The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) must return to its original aim of creating an area of prosperity, stability, security and good neighbourliness, Parliament said on Thursday. The EU must go "back to basics" and place these goals at the top of its agenda, say MEPs. They stress that the revised policy must be more political, differentiated and based on EU values and principles, democracy, the rule of law and human rights.

The Speaker of the Seimas, Loreta Graužinienė, held a working breakfast with heads of Lithuania's diplomatic representations. The Speaker thanked ambassadors for their efforts in representing Lithuania in other countries and wished success in searching for new forms and possibilities of cooperation.

The Speaker of the Seimas, Loreta Graužinienė, received the outgoing Latvian Ambassador, Mārtiņš Virsis. In the meeting, the leader of the parliament commended the long-established friendly relations between Lithuania and Latvia, as well as active and increased cooperation between the parliaments of both countries.

Greece and the best way to resolve the ongoing crisis were hotly debated in plenary on 8 July in the presence of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. While some MEPs criticised him for his lack of concrete proposals, others praised him while some urged him to take his country out of the eurozone. The debate also took into account the conclusions of the recent European Council on 25-26 June and the euro summit on 7 July.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė underlined at a special Euro Summit meeting that negotiations on assistance to Greece could be restarted only if its government took on the obligation to implement further austerity measures.

From 1 July the rotating six-month presidency of the Council of the EU has been in the hands of one of the smallest, yet most experience member states. On 8 July MEPs hold a plenary debate on the challenges it will have to tackle, including the Greek debt crisis, an increase in irregular migration and the preparation for the climate change conference in Paris in December. Just before the start of the presidency, we asked all of the country's six MEPs for their views.