In response to the complicated situation on the Poland-Belarus border, the Government has endorsed a proposal by the Ministry of the Interior regarding the state of emergency with effect from 10 November.

Withdrawing from, or abandoning altogether, major arms control treaties would seriously damage the stability provided by international arms control regimes, warn MEPs.

Exactly a year ago, in the autumn of 2020, during the renovation of the northern wall of the Church of St. Johns of Vilnius University (VU), the remains of over 140 people were discovered in the Konstantinas Sirvydas Courtyard. Dr. Justina Kozakaitė, a researcher at the VU Faculty of Medicine, and Rūta Brindzaitė, a doctoral student, conducted a comprehensive anthropological examination and determined the gender and age of 96 individuals, 15 of whom were still children.

Vilnius is starting a desovietisation process of the streets – grey, uncomfortable and unsafe streets will become Western-like – with tree alleys, small architecture, more versatile covers, and maintained facades by the streets. Today the Standard of Vilnius Streets that has been developed for the last year was presented. It contains 12 principles that are already applied for reconstruction or designing of city streets so that the city was more comfortable and attractive to its residents.

A company called ‘Baltjet‘ won the public contract through the international call for tenders procedure for the management of aviation fuel supply infrastructure (fuel farms) at Vilnius and Palanga airports, which was launched by Lithuanian Airports. In addition to the usual processes of aviation fuel supply, the new operator has committed itself to contribute to the implementation of environmental solutions - technical possibilities for the storage and supply of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to aircraft.

Following the request of Latvia, as well as seeking to contribute to the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and to eliminate its effects, the Government has adopted a resolution on donation of 201,240 doses of Comirnaty vaccine manufactured by Pfizer, Inc. in humanitarian aid to Latvia.

Artists and cultural workers have been heavily affected by the Covid-19 crisis. Find out how the European Parliament wants to protect them.

EP’s Bureau decided that the request to present an EU Digital COVID Certificate to access Parliament's buildings will be extended to all people wishing to enter.

On Thursday, President Gitanas Nausėda participated in a civic procession and commemoration to remember and pay tribute to the victims of the Holocaust who were killed during the Great Action.

October 22, Minister of National Defence Arvydas Anušauskas joined 16 NATO counterparts and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to officially launch a process for retaining and further enhancing the technological and innovative edge of NATO.