Having arrived in Afghanistan on 6 June to visit Lithuanian soldiers, Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas met with members of the Lithuanian contingent serving in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, and in Herat. The minister also met with soldiers of the Special Operations Forces Squadron deployed in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan, and Lithuanian staff officers.

The elections were held in Lithuania last Sunday on June 7. EAPL members took part in them and according to the party their results were good. Such an assessment of the results of repeated local elections in Trakai and Širvintos districts as well as of elections' of a member in a single-seat Varėna-Eišiškės constituency was presented by the Chairman of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania, Member of the European Parliament Valdemar Tomaševski and EAPL Seimas Faction Vice Chairwoman Vanda Kravčionok during a press conference which took place in the Seimas on Monday.

On Friday, 5 June 2015, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius took part in the second "Bagel Shop" tolerance award ceremony. The campaign aimed against anti-Semitism is implemented by the Jewish community of Lithuania. Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius is the patron of the event.

Fake products are harmful to the economy, not only to those who have invested in the original products, but also to consumers, whose health and safety are at risk. Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) exist to help counter these dangers. On Monday 8 June MEPs debate two reports dealing with IPR infringements and vote on them the following day. Watch it live on our website.

On Friday, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius met with Lithuanian honorary consuls to express appreciation for their efforts made for the benefit of Lithuania, to discuss latest developments in the country, as well as Government's plans, etc.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with honorary consuls of Lithuania. This was the sixth traditional meeting which gathered 123 honorary consuls from 62 states. Such meetings have been held every three years since 2001.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite started her first State of the Nation Address of her second term of office speaking about external and domestic threats to safety of Lithuania and Europe.

On 3-4 June, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius and the delegation leave on a working visit to Paris to attend the OECD Ministerial Council meeting. The final session should officially open Lithuania's accession negotiations.

On 30 May 2015, Saturday, the Labour Party convened in Kedainiai to elect a new chairperson. Valentinas Mazuronis has been voted-in as Chair of the Labour Party, which he joined recently after leaving the party Order and Justice.

The civil liberties committee discusses passenger name records on Thursday, while the tax rulings committee looks at the international dimension of tax rulings. Parliament and Council negotiators will try to agree on a proposal linking animal welfare with public health. The foreign affairs and development committees discuss upcoming events on development organised by the UN and political groups will prepare for next week's plenary session.