Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė has sent a message of greetings on behalf of the Government and the people of Lithuania to H. E. Petr Fiala on his appointment as Prime Minister of the Czech Republic.

Alexei Navalny was awarded the 2021 Sakharov Prize, MEPs voted on laws shaping the digital world, and pushed for gender equality in the last plenary of 2021.

On 17 December 2021, Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė has met with President of the Senate of the French Republic Gérard Larcher to discuss the Lithuanian-French bilateral relations, the COVID-19 pandemic developments, the European energy independence, Lukashenko’s hybrid attack at the EU’s external borders, Russia’s security threats, and EU’s response to economic pressure from third countries.

Europe needs to build a new project that innovates, protects and illuminates, Parliament president David Sassoli told EU leaders.

On Tuesday, President Gitanas Nausėda participated in the EU Council preparatory video conference with European Council President Charles Michel. The meeting was also attended by the leaders of Finland, Croatia, Cyprus, Belgium, and the Czech Republic.

On Friday, President Gitanas Nausėda met with the ambassadors of the EU member states residing in Lithuania. The President and the ambassadors discussed the upcoming European Council and the Eastern Partnership Summit, as well as migration, economic recovery, the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, security, and defense.

Parliament will award the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, discuss the pandemic situation and gender equality in the EU in December plenary.

The future of Europe was the topic of the meeting of the European right parties’ leaders in Warsaw that took place last weekend. Jarosław Kaczyński, president of the Law and Justice party, was the initiator of the talks. He invited leaders of right wing and conservative parties from all over Europe to come to Warsaw and discuss the matters of cooperation and the future of the European Union, including the institutional reforms.

On 29–30 November 2021, Radvilė Morkūnaitė-Mikulėnienė, Deputy Speaker of the Seimas, Chair of the Committee on European Affairs; Laima Andrikienė, Vice-Chair of the Committee on European Affairs; Andrius Mazuronis and Gintautas Paluckas, Members of the Seimas, are participating in a remote plenary session of the LXVI Conference of Parliamentary Committees for Union Affairs (COSAC).

Rules to make more data available to start-ups and businesses to stimulate innovation were informally agreed by MEPs and the Council Presidency on Tuesday.