President Dalia Grybauskaitė extended sincere condolences on the death of Tadeusz Mazowiecki, the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Poland.

"Please be advised that the Supervisor of Journalism Ethics is examining complaint that was brought by the deputy of the Government in the Vilnius County about the information contained in the article by Bogusław Rogalski "Repression in Lithuania outraged Brussels", that was printed in the 17th issue Weekly Vilnius. The Government official believes that the information is distorted in order to whip up ethnic feuds between the Poles and Lithuanians. Author has committed a violation of basic principles of civil society. In particular, the principle of democracy building. For this, the official applied the case of breach of Art. Paragraph 19. 1 Section 3 of the Act to be referred to the court an application for suspension of the medium. In the event of breach of other provisions, it is needed to apply the measured referred in Art.50 of the Law. "- wrote the Government Official Audrius Skaistys.

During the festive period from the 20th of December to the 5th of January Air Lituanica will increase an amount of intended trips. There will be a third more possibilities to travel to London and Dublin from Vilnius and Palanga airports than expected – 64 flights will be carried out. Flights to Munich and Amsterdam will be increased as well. Passengers will be offered 7000 seats in total during the Christmas period.

Statistics Lithuania prepared and published an electronic publication Information Technologies in Lithuania 2013 (in Lithuanian and English).

The competition for next year's European Charlemagne Youth Prize was launched on Thursday, 24 October. Now in its seventh year, the prize is awarded to young people who have developed projects to foster understanding between people from different European countries. The deadline for submissions is 20 January 2014.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who is in Brussels for the European Council Summit, extended congratulations to German Chancellor Angela Merkel on winning the Bundestag election and presented her with the Lithuanian cheese Džiugas.

Measures to tackle organised crime, corruption and money laundering are set out in an EU action plan for 2014-2019 recommended by Parliament on Wednesday. Seizing the financial assets of organised crime networks and choking off their sources of income tops the list. Nearly 4000 international criminal organisations are said to be operating in the EU in 2013.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has met with vice-president of the company Hitachi, Koji Tanaka, to discuss cooperation issues.

In the beginning of October, Lithuanian Supreme Administrative Court ordered the removal of bilingual street signs in Polish and Lithuanian languages in Šalčininkai region. This act was justified on the grounds of Lithuanian legislation's requirements. However, such legislation is seen to be in conflict with the prior signed International Convention and is showing arrogance in not fulfilling European Parliament's requests.

The growing globalisation of data flows, via social networks, cloud computing, search engines, location-based services, etc, increases the risk that people can lose control of their own data. On 21 October 2013, Civil Liberties MEPs voted on a major overhaul of current EU data protection rules which aims to put people in control of their personal data, build trust in social media and online shopping and upgrade the protection of data processed by police and judicial authorities.