Starting July 15th, bikes will be available for self-serve rental for Vilnius residents and visitors. As part of a Vilnius City Municipality initiative, JCDecaux will open 24 bike stations in the city center that will offer riders more than 200 bikes for rent. Investments into the project have reached 6.4 mil. Euros.

On 5 July at 16.00, the official opening ceremony of the Lithuanian Presidency of the Council of the European Union will begin in Vilnius. The start of the Presidency of the EU Council will be celebrated in the historical venue of Vilnius University’s, inner courtyard. The courtyard is named after Petras Skarga, the first rector, and is now symbolically decorated with stylized flags of all European Union Member States.

The 20th of June marked another sad anniversary in the history of the Vilnius region. On that day in 1944 year in the Glitiškės village, the Lithuanian police officers murdered the local Polish habitants. The deed was done by the 258th branch of Lithuanian battalion led by lieutenant Polekauskas.

Facing the modern world of governance, it may seem that it is built according to the laws of elementary advertising, consumerism and trade instead of being built on a critical and rational voter's choice. The question arises who allows saying so? An answer to this question is a phenomenon of an image that is entrenched in politics, even though an image is usually associated only with the world of goods and services.

Lithuanian Presidency of the EU is getting closer and closer. Starting from the 1st of July, Lithuania takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union for the next six months. However, the EU power's takeover is accompanied by the hype of the media and Lithuanian politicians straining their muscles. Nevertheless, such PR-lead demonstration shows little reality and does little good for the EU-oriented voters.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė extended congratulations to President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson of the Republic of Iceland on the occasion of Iceland's national holiday - Independence Day. She sent her best wishes for the Icelandic leader's personal success and continued health as well as for the harmony, well-being and prosperity of his country.