Yesterday an Intergroup for Traditional Minorities, National Communities and Languages for legislature of 2014-2019 was established in the European Parliament. Member of the European Parliament Kinga Gál (Hungary) was elected as the chair of the group. Valdemar Tomaševski, Member of the European Parliament (MEP), took part in the meeting as a member of the committee.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, who is visiting Lithuania. The meeting focused on issues of importance to Lithuania and the entire European Union. According to President Grybauskaitė, the European Council plays a significant role in mobilizing all EU member states for common tasks and response to emerging geopolitical and economic challenges.

Only one month and a half is left until the municipal elections in Lithuania which will take place on 1st March and when citizens of Lithuania will elect councillors of 60 self-governments and their mayors. For the first time ever mayors in Lithuania will be elected directly.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė has been named Person of the Year by the Higher Academic Council of Ukraine for her strong and unwavering support to Ukraine's independence at public and political level.

Despite differences Poland always was, is and will be with you, said the Polish public figure, one of the leaders of Poland's oppositional movement Solidarity, editor-in-chief of Poland's largest newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, Adam Michnik.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite met with Minister of Social Security and Labour Algimanta Pabedinskiene and criticised her for the lagging reform of children's care homes and for the lack of transparency in the use of funds by the ministry.

Vilnius County Court rejected the request of the Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania (LRTK) to oblige Lithuanian broadcasters to temporarily suspend broadcast of Russian television channel Ren TV Baltic's programmes that are produced not in the European Union, the European Economic Area or countries that signed the European Convention on Transfrontier Television.

Loreta Graužinienė, Speaker of the Seimas, has met with David Robert Noonan, Ambassador of Ireland. Welcoming the newly appointed Ireland's Ambassador to Lithuania, the Speaker expressed hopes for further constructive and mutually beneficial dialogue, as recent years have seen strong economic ties established between the two countries.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with the Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom, Philip Hammond. The meeting focused on Lithuania-UK cooperation in the sphere of defense and security as well as topical EU issues.

Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has met with Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands Gijsbert Hendrik Christiaan Van Der Lingen, who starts his diplomatic service in Lithuania. During the meeting the Prime Minister and the new Ambassador discussed future prospects for bilateral cooperation, encouragement of investment following Lithuania's adoption of the euro, and topical geopolitical matters.