This week the Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have gathered to an ordinary plenary session in Strasbourg. Among the topics discussed in this session are donation directive, EU Strategy for Youth, simplification of the common agriculture policy, establishment of a European Asylum Support Office and the upcoming EU accession to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. (Read more...)

Leonidas Donskis who has made use of a shorter than usual working week in Brussels (Thursday, May 13, was a holiday in Belgium), was in Lithuania from Wednesday`s afternoon. (Read more...)

Yesterday, the senior fellow of the influential Jamestown Foundation, the American analyst and the author of the Eurasia Daily Monitor, Vladimir Socor visited the European Parliament invited by Leonidas Donskis. The guest has provided his insights into the topic "European energy security and neighbourhood-wide policies" in the EP discussion. (Read more...)

In yesterday`s session of the European Parliament`s Development Committee the draft report on the progress implement UN Millennium development goals was discussed. The committee has mostly endorsed the proposals and additions by the ALDE shadow rapporteur, the Member of the European Parliament (MEP), Leonidas Donskis. (Read more...)

The Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Leonidas Donskis who visited Lithuania this weekend again spent his time in different events and meetings. L. Donskis has taken part in an international conference organised by the Vytautas Magnus University and the European Parliament Information Office in Lithuania to mark the European Day and has met with pupils, students and electors in Kaunas and Šiauliai. (Read more...)

Members of the European Parliament who gathered in Brussels to attend the short plenary session on 5-6 May were faced with an especially busy agenda, which included not only the originally planned items, but also items which were postponed following the cancelled votes of the last Strasbourg session, hampered by the volcano in Iceland. (Read more...)