The EU's fruit and vegetable scheme for schools is to be merged with the school milk scheme. In the process MEPs have secured additional funding for the programmes which aim to help schools serve children fresh produce. The new joint scheme is to be debated at plenary on Monday 7 March, with members voting on it the following day. In an interview ahead of next week's debate Marc Tarabella, the author of Parliament's report on the issue, has a very simple and familiar message: "An apple a day..."

Lithuania has asked the European Commission to provide additional 75 million euros in support for the country's dairy sector.

Lithuania's and Poland's air traffic control services providers Oro Navigacija and PANSA, which have created the Baltic Functional Airspace Block (Baltic FAB), a common Poland-Lithuania airspace block, have teamed up with partners from Ukraine and Spain to bid in a tender to develop a centralized system for the European Union's (EU) air surveillance.

On March 3 Vilnius hosts an international expert-level conference EU Global Strategy: Eastern Partners in European Security. At the conference security challenges to European security and further security and defence cooperation between the European Union and Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries will be discussed.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė and Slovenian President Borut Pahor visited a center for the distribution of refugees and migrants on the Slovenia-Croatia border in Dobova and met with Lithuanian police officers serving there. Lithuanian officers help to manage the flows of refugees crossing into Slovenia from Greece via the Western Balkan countries, ensure their registration, distribution and public order.

Seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate in the euro area reduced to 10.3% in January 2016 from 10.4% in December 2015.

On February 27 two Eurofighter Typhoon fighter aircraft of the Spanish Air Force conducting the NATO Air Policing Mission in the Baltic States responded to a an alert which is their direct task.

Global BOD Group, the owner of Lithuania's high-tech and renewable energy companies, and officials representing Indonesia's Cirebon region, who visited Vilnius last week, have signed a letter of intent on the construction of solar power projects totaling 10 megawatts (MW).

Real estate developer Hanner will invest 40 million euros in the development of commercial and residential property projects in Lithuania in 2016, 29% less than in 2015.