In a mini session on February 2-3 in Brussels, MEPs debated worrying events in North of Africa, voted on a reviewed directive on electric waste, expressed its view on financing projects outside Europe, and discussed energy priorities ahead of a EU summit on the issue. (Read more...)

On the 27th of January, the Permanent Representation of Lithuania to the EU invited the Lithuanian community in Belgium to commemorate the 13th of January, the 20th Anniversary of the Day of the Defenders of Freedom. (Read more...)

On January 26, the EP Foreign Affairs committee had a discussion on whether to strengthen the EU relations with Turkmenistan. The Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States and Turkmenistan was signed in 1998, however, the ratification process has not been finalised. One of the main reasons is an unsatisfactory human rights situation in Turkmenistan. (Read more...)

Žymantė Sakalauskaitė, school-leaver from "Saulės" gymnasium in Kaunas, on 3-10 April in Tallinn will participate in an international session of an educational project Model European Parliament. (Read more...)

Members of the European Parliament gathered this week in Strasbourg to the first session of 2011. Additionally to agreed points of the agenda, MEPs also discussed the situation in Belarus after the elections on 19th of December, 2010. (Read more...)

"You have a key to my father`s liberation", - said Eva Nyaklyaeva, the daughter of jailed Belarusian presidential candidate, Uladzimir Nyaklyaev, with these words calling the EP and the entire EU urgently take all necessary actions in order to free all persons imprisoned after the events on the 19th of December, 2010 and reconsider it`s policy towards Belarus. (Read more...)