The latest Standard Eurobarometer survey published at the end of December 2016, together with the Special Eurobarometer survey “Future of Europe” signaled two key outcomes: Europeans continue to see immigration and terrorism as the major challenges facing the EU. Support for the EU’s priorities and policies remains strong, and has increased since spring 2016.

It is with deep sadness that I have learnt of the loss of so many people in 25th December airplane crash over the Black Sea.

Joint Commission of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) to convene on 10 January in Vienna.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump cares for the Baltic states, Rudy Giuliani, a former New York mayor and Trump’s ally, assured Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius during a phone call.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė extended congratulations on behalf of the Lithuanian people and on her own behalf to His Imperial Majesty Akihito on his birthday and Japan’s national holiday.

The EU contracted €270 million to boost education infrastructure for Refugees in Turkey

"The history of humanity is the history of migrations. Zero migration has never existed, and it never will”, said Louis Michel (ALDE, BE), EU Co-President of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (JPA) at the opening of its 32nd session, in Nairobi (Kenya) on Monday. “We must manage migration flows in a human way, in line with our values. Fortress Europe is not working”, he added.

Mr Linkevičius, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania, on 20 December 2016, signed a book of condolences opened at the Embassy of the Russian Federation for the Russian Ambassador to Turkey, Mr Andrei Karlov who died tragically in Ankara.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė extended her heartfelt condolences on behalf of the Lithuanian people and on her own behalf to President Joachim Gauck of Germany over the brutal attack against the innocent people in Berlin.

The Ukrainian government took over control of Ukraine’s PrivatBank last Sunday after the Ukrainian central bank requested a temporary supervision of the bank to keep it from going bust because of bad debts.