Following the dismissal of 1,161 textile workers in three regions, the most disadvantaged among them should receive EU aid worth €4,655,883 to help find new jobs.

On 2 October, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius, met with the newly appointed Ambassador of Japan to Lithuania, Shiro Yamasaki, who presented his letters of credence to President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė last week.

EU countries should refrain from selling arms to all parties of Yemeni civil war to ease the world’s largest humanitarian crisis in Yemen, said MEPs on Thursday.

The Ministers of Justice and Home Affairs of Austria, representing the Presidency of the Council of the EU, together with the European Commission, represented by the European Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality, and the European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship, met on 4-5 October 2018 with their counterparts from the Western Balkans at the annual EU-Western Balkans Ministerial Forum on Justice and Home affairs. The meeting was also attended by representatives of the trio Presidency partners, Estonia and Bulgaria, as well as by the incoming Romanian Presidency.

The recent US decision to end all funding for Unrwa, the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees, was widely condemned in a debate in Parliament on 2 October.

On 28 September, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius took part in a discussion hosted by the US Department of State on advancing responsible state behaviour in cyberspace. The discussion was moderated by Deputy Secretary of State, John Sullivan.

New figures released by the European Commission today show that customs authorities detained over 31 million fake and counterfeit products at the EU's external border with a street value of over €580 million.

Following the dismissal of 1,324 workers in 20 banks in the affected regions, the most disadvantaged among them should receive EU aid worth €1,192,500 to help find new jobs.

Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, President Dalia Grybauskaitė brought the world’s attention to the problems that affect the United Nations and other multilateral institutions in delivering their mission and mandate.

Budget Committee MEPs on Tuesday agreed to cancel €70 million in pre-accession funds earmarked for Turkey, as conditions to improve the rule of law were not met.