After the nomination of the deputy Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis for the position of European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, his seat in the Seimas became free. Therefore, complementary elections to the Seimas will be held on 1st March 2015 together with the direct elections of mayors and local governments' councils.

Elections to the councils of local government will be held on March 1st, 2015. The decision was taken today in the Seimas.

Hopes and fears for the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), which has been negotiated but still needs Parliament's backing to enter into force, were aired in a debate with EU trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht on Tuesday.

The candidate commissioners, as presented by incoming Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, will need to appear in hearings before parliamentary committees from 29 September to 7 October.

Seimas Speaker Loreta Graužinienė and Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius presented the work programme of the session to the parliamentarians who convened to the fifth (autumn) regular session of the Seimas on 10 September 2014.

Remarks of Commissioner Füle at the end of the Informal Partnership Dialogue of the Foreign Ministers of Eastern Partnership countries in Baku, Azerbaijan

On Tuesday, in Poland, Lithuanian Armed Forces signed a purchase agreement of short-range man-portable air-defence missile systems GROM.

On Wednesday, September 3, in Tallinn President Dalia Grybauskaitė will meet with U.S. President Barack Obama. On the eve of the NATO summit in Wales, the heads of state will discuss regional security issues and measures that are necessary to ensure security in the region. Participating in the meeting with U.S. President will also be Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves and Latvian President Andris Bērziņš.

European Union leaders on Sunday gave Russia a week to reverse course in Ukraine or face a new round of sanctions as Kiev warned it was on the brink of "full-scale war" with Moscow.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius is paying a working visit to Chisinau on 31 August - 2 September and is taking part in the meeting of „Friends of Moldova Group“, and will have bilateral meetings.