Youth volunteers, pan-European civil society groups, and global businesses have joined in with the #UseYourVote campaign for the 6-9 June European elections.

President Gitanas Nausėda spoke on Wednesday by telephone with Charles Michel, the President of the European Council, to discuss the preparations for June’s European Council meetings, the upcoming elections for the European Parliament, and the new EU political cycle.

The Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) has begun a month-long Response Option Nordic Warden this week for strengthening security of the critical undersea infrastructure in the area from the North Atlantic to the Baltic Sea.

Lithuanian Government Chancellor Giedrė Balčytytė met with Japan’s Vice Minister for Finance Masato Kanda to discuss the strategic partnership between Lithuania and Japan, support for Ukraine, and need for better resilience among democracies.

On Sunday, Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė, who is on a working visit to Berlin, Germany, met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and took part in a discussion at the East German Economic Forum.

The Eurovision debate between the lead candidates for the Commission presidency will take place on Thursday 23 May from 15.00-16.45 in Parliament’s plenary chamber in Brussels.

Such actions by the Russian Federation should be seen as a deliberate, targeted, escalating provocation to intimidate neighbouring states and their societies. This is yet another proof that Russia’s aggressive and revisionist policy poses a threat to the security of its neighbours and of Europe as a whole.

Today, May 21, Minister of National Defence met with Minister of Defence of Germany Boris Pistorius in Palanga to discuss priorities of the upcoming NATO Summit in Washington, the course of the stationing of the German Brigade Litauen, military mobility, assistance to Ukraine, international operations and bilateral security and defence cooperation.

On Friday in Strasbourg, Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė attended an official ceremony marking the handover of the presidency of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers to Lithuania, which is to hold this position for the next six months, until November 13.

After five years, a second attempt to amend the Constitution by extending the possibility of granting dual citizenship has also failed.