Head of Government Algirdas Butkevičius and the delegation leave on an official visit to Georgia on 25-27 January to discuss Lithuania-Georgia bilateral economic cooperation, transport and energy issues of mutual relevance, as well as Georgia's integration into NATO and the European Union.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs Margot Wallström to discuss bilateral issues, the security situation in the Baltic Sea region and energy cooperation between the two countries.

Lithuanian leader Dalia Grybauskaite has submitted her amendments to the Law on the Legal Status of Aliens, which seek to strengthen Lithuania's national security and prevent persons who pose danger to the country and people from getting residence permits in Lithuania.

Minister of the Interior Saulius Skvernelis and United States Ambassador Deborah McCarthy discussed Lithuania-US relations in the area of internal affairs and prospects of future cooperation.

The priorities of Latvia's EU Council Presidency will be outlined to the various parliamentary committees by Latvian ministers in a series of meetings to be held during the last two weeks of January.

President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaite met with judges of the Supreme Court and discussed main problems of the judicial system, the possibility to accelerate legal proceedings, ensure principled evaluation of the work of judges and increase trust in courts.

On 1 January 2015, Lithuania took over the Presidency of the Baltic Assembly. This year, the Seimas plans to hold 14 international events, with the majority of them hosted by the Seimas in Vilnius and four of them held in Kaunas, Klaipeda, Palanga and Siauliai.

There is no reason yet to speak about warming up relations with Russia and reviewing the European Union's sanctions against the country, says Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius.

The Parliament paid tribute to the victims of the terrorist attacks in Paris on Monday at the start of the January plenary. On the legislative side, MEPs approved a proposal to give member states more flexibility to restrict or ban GMOs on their territory, while they also debated the programme of the new Latvian presidency of the Council as well as the outcome of the Italian presidency that ended in December.

Municipal elections will take place on 1st March this years. During the elections, mayors of 60 self-governments will be elected through direct elections for the first time. The greatest fight is of course for the position of mayor of Vilnius City.