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Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė will meet in Brussels on Thursday with Latvian, Estonian, Polish and European Commission leaders to discuss the Baltic countries' plans to disconnect their power grids from the Soviet-era BRELL ring and synchronize them with Western Europe.
The Lithuanian Social Security and Labour Ministry proposes to postpone the ratification of the so-called Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women until a compromise is reached on the concept of gender, a position that has angered the country's foreign minister.
Polish President Andrzej Duda and top European Union officials are coming to Vilnius on Thursday as festive events marking the centenary of Lithuania's restored statehood are kicking off across the country.
Finnish President Sauli Niinisto is to come to Vilnius this week to congratulate Lithuania on the centennial of its restored statehood, the Lithuanian president's office has confirmed to BNS.
The European Commission (EC) and energy ministers of four countries – Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Poland – agreed that the final political agreement on synchronization of the Baltic energy networks with continental Europe should be signed in June of 2018.
Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė is meeting with leaders of other European Union (EU) nations in Brussels on Friday to discuss the initiatives to deepen economic integration and assess the progress of the Brexit talks with the United Kingdom.
The refugee distribution system, which has been in effect for over two years, is not entirely efficient, Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė said upon arrival at the European Council in Brussels on Thursday.
The European Union has expressed solidarity with Lithuania over a nuclear plant that Belarus is building close to the border, thus sending an important and clear message to Minsk, an adviser to President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Tuesday.
Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė is Thursday leaving for the European Union's (EU) summit, which will discuss talks on the United Kingdom's exit from the organization and the bloc's plans for reforms.
The West should expand sanctions for Russia amid the situation in eastern Ukraine, Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė stated on Thursday.
Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius has expressed belief that the majority of European Union (EU) nations will support re-election of Poland's former prime minister Donald Tusk as president of the European Council, regardless of objections from Poland's current administration.
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Thursday is leaving for Brussels where EU leaders will discuss whether or not to re-elect Donald Tusk as president of the European Council.