On May 21–22, President Dalia Grybauskaitė will attend the EU Eastern Partnership summit in Riga. The summit will review the results of the Eastern Partnership programme achieved after the Vilnius summit held at the end of 2013 and will outline guidelines for further cooperation and development of the programme.

The situation in Hungary, following Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's remarks on the possibility of reinstating the death penalty there and the government's public "consultation" on immigration, were debated by MEPs, Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans, Latvian State Secretary for European Affairs Zanda Kalniņa-Lukaševica for the Latvian Presidency of the EU Council of Ministers and Mr Orbán himself on Tuesday afternoon.

On Tuesday, in the city of Astana, during his official visit to Kazakhstan, the Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius met with the Head of the Kazakhstan Government, Karim Masimov.

Loreta Graužinienė, Speaker of the Seimas, met with Wei Ruixing, Ambassador of the People's Republic of China, and congratulated him on commencing his term of diplomatic service in Lithuania.

During her meeting with Arunas Dulkys, the new head of the National Audit Office, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite stressed the need to ensure transparency in the use of the state budget funds and the European Union's (EU) funds, audits of public institutions, assessment of fiscal policy.

Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius and the delegation will visit Astana and Almaty of the Republic of Kazakhstan on 18-21 May with a view to promoting economic ties, investments, and cooperation in different fields.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė together with EU leaders and other distinguished guests attended the Charlemagne Prize award ceremony for this year's laureate, President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz. President Grybauskaitė was invited to take part in the festive event as laureate of the Charlemagne Prize 2013.

EP President Martin Schulz will be awarded the 57th International Charlemagne Prize at a ceremony on Thursday 14 May in Aachen. The prize goes to Mr Schulz for his work to promote democracy, not least by making the European Parliament more visible, audible and understandable, and for his role in the "Spitzenkandidaten" process ahead of the 2014 European elections.

Lithuania's competitiveness must be boosted through education and social reforms, said Prime Minister of Lithuania Algirdas Butkevicius after a meeting with representatives of the Business Council.

The Speaker of the Seimas, Loreta Graužinienė, is on a visit to Lisbon, Portugal. She takes part in the Second Summit of Speakers of Parliaments of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean that has the main purpose of discussing migration, asylum and human rights in the EuroMediterranean Region.