On Tuesday, Budgets Committee Members approved €293.5 million in EU Solidarity Fund aid following extreme weather events in Austria, Italy and Romania in 2018.

On 2 September Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China, Mr Shen Zhifei, was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and handed a note over the incident aimed at the participants of the peaceful demonstration that took place in Vilnius Cathedral Square on 23 August.

President Gitanas Nausėda met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine during his visit to Warsaw where they attend commemorations of the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II.

Before the new European Commission - the EU’s executive body - can take office, Parliament will organise public hearings to assess the commissioners’ suitability for the job.

On 29-30 August, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius attended the Informal Meeting of Ministers for Foreign Affairs of EU member states (Gymnich) in Finland. The meeting focused on the situation in the Persian Gulf, the EU regional cooperation with the Western Balkans, and the EU policy for the Arctic.

Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis has extended greetings to newly appointed Prime Minister of the Ukrainian Rada, Oleksiy Honcharuk.

In the margins of the 7th Tokyo International Conference on Africa Development (TICAD) today, Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development Neven Mimica signed a new €50 million package to enhance efforts in North East Nigeria.

Member States today agreed to a series of support measures proposed by the Commission to ease the financial difficulties faced by farmers due to adverse weather conditions, and increase the availability of feed for animals.

On 22 August in Vilnius, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius met with Moldova’s Prime Minister Maia Sandu to discuss the situation in Moldova, the priorities of domestic and foreign policy of the country's new government, and exchanged views on security situation in the region.

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