Today EAPL Press Office issued a statement condemning the incident in Poznan stadium incident and called it a routine planned provocation.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė offered her condolences to King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands on the death of his brother Prince Johan Friso.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė together with President Toomas Hendrik Ilves of Estonia and President Andris Bērziņš of Latvia will meet with the President of the United States, Barack Obama. The meeting will be held at the invitation of President Barack Obama on 30 August in Washington.

Former leader of the Lithuanian Labour Party, Viktor Uspaskich, returned to Lithuania from Russia in late hours of Sunday on 28 July.

Prime Minister of Lithuania Algirdas Butkevičius is taking a three weeks’ holiday from Monday, 29 July. The Head of the Government and family are going to rest in Palanga seaside resort and later - on the Greek island of Kos, informs Prime Minister's Press Office.

On Thursday, July 18th, the board meeting of Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania was summoned. A lot of issues were covered: the political situation of the country, the collection of signatures campaign against the third climate change package that aims to reduce CO² emissions by 20 % by 2020, and the activity reports of party representatives working in the Ministries.

During the meeting with Macedonia's Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikola Poposki in Brussels on 23 July, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius underlined that this country was capable of making progress towards EU membership.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė extended congratulations to His Majesty King Albert II of Belgium on the national holiday, Independence Day. She wished the Belgian people much happiness, well-being and prosperity.