Typhoon Haiyan wreaked havoc in the Philippines when it swept through the country on Friday, killing more than 10,000 people in its wake. The disaster is more than the Asian country is able to cope with on its own. We discussed how the EU could help with Werner Langen, a German member of the EPP group who is the chairman of the EP's delegation for relations with ASEAN countries, which includes the Philippines.

The EU is the world's biggest market and the greatest competitor for the US and China, but that's not all though. It also defends human rights and promotes democracy and good governance beyond its borders. With aid programmes and humanitarian action, Europe also reaches those who need its help the most.

The United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator Kyung-wha Kang is visiting Lithuania on 11 and 12 November.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė offered condolences to Philippine President Benigno S. Aquino III over the typhoon that swept through the country leaving thousands dead.

The seventh EU-Korea summit will take place in Brussels on 8 November 2013.
The EU will be represented by Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council, and by José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission. The Republic of Korea will be represented by President Park Geun-hye, who took office earlier this year after her election in December 2012. Commissioners Karel De Gucht (Trade) and Máire Geoghegan Quinn (Research, Innovation and Science) will also participate.

The European Parliament should use its powers to reconsider EU-US data transfer deals and push for the creation of a European privacy cloud, EU-level protection for whistleblowers and a strong judicial authorisation of surveillance activities, data protection and intelligence experts told MEPs at the eighth Civil Liberties Committee hearing on surveillance of EU citizens. Creating a European Intelligence Service is not a solution, they added.

The Permanent Representatives Committee (COREPER II) on November 7 in Brussels has agreed on remaining issues of the Regulation laying down general provisions for the Asylum and Migration Fund and on the instrument for financial support for police cooperation which is one of four Home Affairs financial regulations of the EU multiannual budget for 2014–2020.

6 November, at the meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives (COREPER I) EU Member States agreed to send the letter to the European Parliament to ask its consent for the conclusion of the protocol to the Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the EU and Morocco.

The Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Rolandas Kriščiūnas is attending World Economic Forum Strategic Dialogue on the Future of Ukraine in Kyiv on 6 November.

The event focuses on scenarios of Ukraine's economic development, especially after the signing of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, including the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area. Ukraine is expected to sign the Association Agreement with the EU during the upcoming Eastern Partnership Summit in November in Vilnius, if Ukraine meets the requirements set by the EU Foreign Affairs Council.

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius has on November 5 in Brussels met Turkey's Minister for EU Affairs and Chief Negotiator Egemen Bağış and Minister of Development Dr. Cevdet Yilmaz and underlined the importance of maintaining the momentum achieved by opening of a new chapter in Turkey's EU accession negotiations.