On Monday, Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaite announced she will run for re-election.

The petition on language rights of Poles in Lithuania submitted by the lawyer from Gdańsk Tomasz Snarski, who has tabled it to the European Parliament (EP) in March 2011, made the Committee on Petitions of the EP to take official actions on behalf of the Polish minority in Lithuania.

The Minister of Interior, Giannis Michelakis, presented on 30 January the priorities of the Greek Presidency of the Council of the EU at a plenary session of the Committee of the Regions in Brussels.

In support of the European Parliament Elections of May 2014, ALL European voices count, no matter the subject, no matter which opinion they hold.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius called on Latvia to maintain attention to the Eastern Partnership during its Presidency of the EU Council in 2015.

The team of our website reached the content of the statement of Polish social organizations in Lithuania. In the statement the organizations express their concern over the worsening, according to them, situation of national minorities in Lithuania and declare their support to the Member of the European Parliament, Chairman of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania, Valdemar Tomaševski and 'his efforts to improve the situation of national minorities in Lithuania.' The text of the statement is presented below.

Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius had a working lunch with heads of diplomatic missions of the EU Member States in Lithuania, hosted by Mikhail Efstratios Daratzikis, Ambassador of Greece, which has been holding Presidency of the EU Council since the beginning of this year.

Today the EAPL Press Office has issued an announcement in which it took the position regarding the matter of the vice-minister of Energy Renata Cytacka statement. We would like to remind, that nowadays the subject is being discussed in the Lithuanian media really often.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with foreign ambassadors accredited to Lithuania. The President thanked the ambassadors for cooperation during the Lithuanian Presidency of the Council of the European Union and for the support to Lithuania's membership in the UN Security Council. At the meeting, major tasks and events in the previous year were reviewed, as well as the current economic situation in Lithuania and around the world.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė visited an injured Euromaidan participant who undergoes medical treatment in Vilnius.