The fate of the new European Commission led by Jean-Claude Juncker will be decided on Wednesday 22 October when MEPs will be asked to either approve or reject it. However, there will still be two additional hearings before that decision can be taken. Violeta Bulc, commissioner-designate for transport, and Maroš Šefčovič, proposed as Commission vice-president for the energy union, will be questioned on Monday following a reshuffle of the portfolios.

'I came to Vilnius in order to update my information on the situation of national minorities in Lithuania,' stated Veronika Kristkova, legal expert of the Office of the High Commissioner on National Minorities of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), during the meeting with the parliamentary EAPL faction in Vilnius.

The introduction of euro is the most important topic in Lithuania these days. Therefore the Council of the Vilnius District Self-government has approved 12 drafts regarding converting services' prices from litas to euro. All in all, there were 59 draft decisions reviewed during the last meeting of the Council.

The Lithuanian Parliament, following the Constitution, the Law on Treaties and taking into account the decree signed by President Dalia Grybauskaite, has ratified the Agreement between the Government of Lithuania and the Government of Sweden on the Delimitation of the Exclusive Economic Zone and the Continental Shelf in the Baltic Sea.

Chief presidential advisor on legal affairs Rasa Svetikaite says that the Seimas did not examine properly Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite's amendments to the Law on the Provision of Information to the Public and their rejection on 7 October only reinforced the president's resolution to fight with propaganda, harmful to the state.

The constituent meeting of the European Parliament Delegation for relations with Belarus took place on 13th October. The meeting, during which new chairmanship was elected, was chaired by Valdemar Tomaševski, the most experienced member of the Delegation of the new eighth term of the European Parliament.

On 8 October, the European Commission presented the EU's annual Enlargement package, which includes the Enlargement Strategy Paper and Progress Reports on Turkey and the Western Balkan countries: Montenegro, Serbia, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo.

The Chairman of the Board of the Bank of Lithuania, Vitas Vasiliauskas, has begun his visit in Washington DC, where on 10-12 October he will take part in the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. Here the heads of central banks and ministers of finance will seek to coordinate actions that would speed up economic growth and ensure long-term development.The Chairman of the Board of the Bank of Lithuania, Vitas Vasiliauskas, has begun his visit in Washington DC, where on 10-12 October he will take part in the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. Here the heads of central banks and ministers of finance will seek to coordinate actions that would speed up economic growth and ensure long-term development.

More than 30 members of the European Parliament addressed the heads of states urging to stop initiatives that propose to reduce taxation and environmental requirements for shale hydrocarbon exploration and extraction. The document was drafted on the initiative of Bronis Rope, member of the Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union.

Lithuanian Seimas did not approve legislative initiatives drafted by the President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who proposed to reduce emissions of Russian programs in Lithuania.