Direct elections for mayors and local government councils will be held in Lithuania on 1st March 2015. The number of local councilors in Vilnius District will increase by four people and in terms of numbers will only give way to council governments of Vilnius and Kaunas.

Lithuanian Seimas adopted the amendments that assume that the owners of urban land, who have not yet regained the rights to the land once owned, will be able to apply for the granting of rights to equal wooded parcel.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė attended a meeting of the United Nations (UN) Security Council where she underlined that terrorism today was going far beyond the borders of states, acquiring new forms and posing a threat to global security. Therefore, collective efforts of the international community were needed to tackle this threat as soon as possible.

The leader of the Labour Party and Speaker of Lithuanian Parliament Loreta Graužinienė believes that the candidate of Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (EAPL) has a real chance of winning the mandate of the mayor of Vilnius. She stated that in an interview for the Žinių Radijas radio.

Amendments to the Law on Welfare and Protection of Animals would enable Lithuania to start exporting faster to countries were animals are required to be slaughtered according to religious rite, says Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius.

Rokas Masiulis was appointed to the position of the Minister of Energy under the decree of the President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė.

The priorities of the Italian Council Presidency are being outlined to the various parliamentary committees by Italian ministers on 2 and 3 September, following a first series of meetings held on 22 and 23 July. This text will be updated after each session.

The candidate commissioners as presented by incoming Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, will be scrutinised by the European Parliament committees from 29 September to 7 October. Members will evaluate candidates' suitability before the full house votes on the proposed Commission. The leaders of the political groups have agreed on Thursday on the format and programme for the public hearings.

Lithuanian parliament, with 61 members voting in favour, 5 against with 2 abstentions, has adopted the Law on the Bank of Lithuania, which had been returned by President Dalia Grybauskaite for improvement, along with all amendments proposed by the president.

The Competition Council in Lithuania has been authorised to continue applying fines equal to 10% of a company's gross annual income.