Ahead of the 14th European Remembrance Day for Victims of Terrorism on 11 March 2018, First Vice-President Frans Timmermans, High Representative/Vice-President Federica Mogherini, Commissioners Dimitris Avramopoulos, Vera Jourová and Julian King have issued the following statement:

The European Commission has adopted a proposal for a new Macro-Financial Assistance (MFA) programme for Ukraine worth up to €1 billion to support economic stabilisation and structural reforms.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius congratulated Stef Blok on his new appointment as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands.

At the initiative of President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who chairs the Council of Women World Leaders, the Women Political Leaders Summit will convene in Vilnius on June 6-8.

On 5 March, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius, together with his Latvian and Estonian counterparts, met with the Secretary of State of the United States of America Rex Tillerson in Washington, D.C.

Today the European Commission signed an administrative arrangement with Tunisia to boost ties in civil protection and disaster risk management.

On 5 March, the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Darius Skusevičius met with the Minister of Justice of Ukraine Pavlo Petrenko and discussed reforms of the justice sector of Ukraine in Vilnius.

On 1 March, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius met with the Minister of Justice of Moldova Alexandru Tănase in Vilnius.

The European Commission takes note of the announcement by the President of the United States of the imposition of restrictions in the form of an import surcharge on EU exports to the US of steel and aluminium.

EU job-search aid worth €2,130,400 for 900 workers made redundant by telecoms company Ericsson was approved by the European Parliament in a vote on Thursday.