President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with the Secretary General of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen to discuss the security situation in the region, enhanced cooperation among NATO member countries, and preparations for the NATO summit scheduled for early September in Wales.

This year's double elections – presidential and European– have already passed. They have marked a great electoral success for Vilnius Region's Poles and manifested Valdemar Tomaševski's record in the amount of gained votes. That being the case, the election's positive outcome is an undisputable evidence of voters' appreciation of fair policy that guides the actions of the leader of Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (EAPL). Both elections provided quite a challenge for the EAPL. Despite the incessant attacks from various media platforms and political parties, the EAPL with the whole Polish community have shown that unity, dedication to the cause and persistent work can achieve a lot. Hence, the recent elections provided Lithuanian Poles with the historic success.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė together with other leaders of EU member states and institutions attended the ceremony of presenting the International Charlemagne Prize and extended congratulations to this year's laureate - European Council President Herman Van Rompuy.

Lithuanian Government has given green light to reorganisation of heat sector in the cities of Vilnius and Kaunas, where after its implementation heat price is hoped to go down by up to 30%.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė is attending an informal meeting of the European Council to discuss the outcome of Sunday's elections to the European Parliament, outline the priorities ahead for the European Commission, and exchange views about the situation in Ukraine following the May 25 presidential elections.

During the press conference, which took place last Monday, leader of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (EAPL), Member of the European Parliament (EP) Valdemar Tomaševski stated that the results of the elections to the EP show that more and more people of Lithuanian nationality vote for EAPL.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė has left for a working visit to Brussels where she will attend an informal meeting of the European Council.

Elections to the European Parliament (EP) were really successful for the coalition of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania and the Russian Alliance 'Block of Valdemar Tomaševski' - it got more than 92 thousand votes what makes 8,1 percent of all the votes. This way the coalition managed to gain one seat in the EP. It will be again taken by the chairman of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (EAPL) Valdemar Tomaševski. When comparing the results of 2014 elections to the results of 2012 elections, when the EAPL party got 6,1% of votes and crossed the electoral threshold for the first time, the 2014 results were improved by one third. It is worth stressing that the Block of Valdemar Tomaševski took honourable first place in 200 out of 2004 electoral districts in the country.

As results from 1,720 of 2,004 polling districts have been submitted, Dalia Grybauskaite who is seeking for a second term of office is winning. She has received 56.58% of votes so far, while social democrat Zigmantas Balcytis is falling behind with 41.45% of votes.

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