Around 2,500 redundant workers of the former French road haulage company Mory-Ducros, which closed in 2014, should get EU aid worth €6 million to help them back into work, said Budgets Committee MEPs in a vote on Wednesday. The European Globalisation Adjustment Fund aid still needs to be approved by Parliament as a whole and the Council of Ministers.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on 3 April in Vilnius discussed prospects for bilateral cooperation, the implementation of decisions taken at the NATO Summit in Wales, aid to Ukraine, deteriorating situation in Crimea and Tatar minority rights, Turkey's integration into the EU and international security.

Most people would agree that climate change needs to be tackled, but it is less clear where the money needed to do this should come from. MEPs discussed the issue with their national counterparts on Monday 30 March during a hearing on the climate conference that is due to take place in Paris in December this year. National MPs agreed that their work starts now to ensure their governments prepare for the Paris conference.

Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs expresses its sincere sympathies to the families and friends of the victims from Russia, Myanmar, Ukraine, Vanuatu, Latvia in the accident in the Sea of Okhotsk of the Russian Federation that occurred in the morning of April 2, when the trawler sank and many crew members died or disappeared.

On 30 March 2015, the General Jonas Zematis Military Academy of Lithuania hosted military experts from the Ministry of Defence of China.

On 27 March, the United Nations Security Council discussed the situation of ethnic and religious minorities in the Middle East in the context of radical extremism and terrorist attacks.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and EU Counter-terrorism Coordinator Gilles de Kerchove visit Parliament this week to discuss security challenges and the EU's response to terrorist threats. In addition MEPs vote on legislation to increase transparency when setting key interest rates, while the new special committee on tax rulings will debate how to fight against tax evasion and tax havens.

Pledges amounting to over €1 billion were announced at the International Conference in support of Guinea-Bissau in Brussels, which the European Union hosted on Wednesday together with the Government of Guinea-Bissau and the UN Development Programme (UNDP). The pledges, finalised last night, came from more than 70 delegations from all over the world. They include €160 million that will be provided by the EU.

"When I look ahead to the future of Congo, I can't picture it without these women activists, who have suffered atrocities," said Dr Denis Mukwege during a visit to Parliament on 26 March. The 2014 Sakharov Prize Winner, who treats victims of sexual violence in DR Congo, discussed his country's future as well as violence against women with the human rights subcommittee. He also called for Congolese unity: "Whenever there is evil in society, that society must mobilise to fight it."

The 18 March terrorist attacks on the Tunis Bardo museum were clearly directed against Tunisia's transition to democracy, as the "lone success story of the 'Arab Spring'", said MEPs in a debate with EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini on Wednesday evening. All speakers insisted on the need to maintain or beef up EU support for Tunisia, so to in encourage it to pursue its democratic transition and not be intimidated by attempts to cause anarchy and chaos.