Employees affected by the bankruptcy of Belgian automotive company Van Hool will benefit from an EU aid package worth €8 million.

Meeting Minister of Defence of the State of Israel Israel Katz, Minister of National Defence discussed principal topics of bilateral cooperation. Lithuania is inviting Israel to cooperate in developing defence industry in Lithuania and proposes good investment conditions for Israeli companies to advance that purpose. Lithuania also aim to learn from Israel’s experience in total defence and reservist force enhancement, as well as to develop security and defence dialogue across all levels.

On Tuesday, President Gitanas Nausėda took part in the tenth Summit of the Three Seas Initiative (3SI) in Warsaw.

President Gitanas Nausėda will leave tomorrow for Warsaw, Poland, where he will participate in the 10th Summit of the Three Seas Initiative (3SI) and the International Business Forum.

On Thursday, MEPs backed a draft law designed to strengthen Europe’s defence industry, ramp up defence product manufacturing and provide more support for Ukraine.

Pope Francis died on Easter Monday at 7.35am in the House of Saint Martha.

On 10 April, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, Kęstutis Budrys, met with the Ambassador of Japan to Lithuania, Shinsuke Shimizu.

President Gitanas Nausėda had a phone conversation on Thursday with the President of Poland, Andrzej Duda.

The European Parliament’s delegation for relations with the United States will travel to the US capital from Wednesday to Friday for talks with representatives of the US Congress.

On Thursday, the European Parliament adopted human rights resolutions on Cameroon, Iran and Belarus.