Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius met with outgoing British Ambassador David Hunt to thank him for his personal contribution to the development of good bilateral relations, noting the importance of the United Kingdom as a partner in trade and investment, and as a like-minded country as regards foreign policy and economic matters.

On Monday, June 15, Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma held a meeting with Prime Minister of Lithuania, Algirdas Butkevičius, who had arrived to the Annual Forum of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region in Jūrmala, reported Press Secretary to the Prime Minister.

On Tuesday, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius met with European Commission Vice-President responsible for the euro and the social dialogue, Valdis Dombrovskis, to discuss the economic situation in Lithuania and in other euro area countries, the European strategic investment fund, Commission's recommendations, and Lithuania's economic growth projections.

Last week, Klaipeda (Lithuania) hosted the joint meeting of the Baltic Assembly (BA) Welfare Committee and the BA Education, Science and Culture Committee. The meeting was devoted to discussing the labour market of the Baltic States with regard to its outlook and the key challenges and policy responses related to it.

EU-Russia relations were high on Parliament's agenda this plenary week in Strasbourg. In two separate resolutions, MEPs called on EU member states to maintain their unity following Russia´s illegal annexation of Crimea and drew attention to the militarisation of the Black Sea basin. Meanwhile the debate and vote on Parliament´s recommendations for the ongoing Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations were postponed due to the high number of amendments.

Ambassador of Lithuania to Austria Loreta Zakarevičienė presented her letters of credence to President of Croatia Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović on 10 June.

On Thursday, in Brussels, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius met with the Prime Minister of Poland Ewa Kopacz. The Heads of Governments discussed mutual energy projects, the Prime Minister invite the Polish Prime Minister to attend the ceremony for the completion of the energy interconnection "LitPolLink".

Today another meeting of the Intergroup for Traditional Minorities, National Communities and Languages took place in the European Parliament in Strasbourg. On the request of the Chairmen of the Intergroup, Members of the European Parliament Jordi Sebastià (Spain), Nils Torvalds (Finland) and Kinga Gál (Hungary), the meeting was devoted to minority's education in Lithuania.

On 8 June, at the request of parents I was present at V. Sirokomlės secondary school in Vilnius. There were two policemen from the Prevention subdivision of the First Police Station in Vilnius. They were carrying out operational activities based on questioning the teachers. It was all concerning an anonymous that was allegedly received by the police. The officers questioned the names of the participants of the legal rally and school strike organized in defence of the education of national minorities. This action is outrageous and unacceptable in a democratic state ruled by law; it is an attempt to intimidate the school community which in a legal and civilized way stands in defence of their rights. Unfortunately, it was not the first case of such outrageous authorities' actions using the police help. Six months ago there was a search carried out during lessons' time in the Vasilijus Kačialovas gymnasium in Vilnius and in the Sofija Kovalevskaja secondary school in Vilnius.

On 8 June, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius met with Kosovo's Minister of European Integration Bekim Çollaku, who is visiting Vilnius.