Lithuania is a parliamentary republic with a head of government - the Prime Minister - and a head of state - the President - who appoints the Prime Minister.

The Parliament is a single-chamber legislative body. The country is divided into 60 municipalities, with directly-elected mayors.

There are 11 members of the European Parliament from Lithuania.

Lithuania joined the EU on 1 May 2004 - and the euro area on 1 January 2015.

EU - Lithuania

Lithuania is a Member State of the European Union since 1 May 2004 and is a&nbsp; Member of the&nbsp; Euro area since 1 January 2015

 
There are 11 members of the European Parliament from Lithuania.

EU - Lithuania (2019-2020)

President Metsola meets the Speaker of the Seimas Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen and deliver a keynote speech in the Lithuanian Seimas at the Commemoration of the Day of Defenders of Freedom and award ceremony of the Freedom Prize of the Republic of Lithuania.

Official visit by Roberta METSOLA, EP President to Vilnius (Lithuania)

Roberta Metsola, EP President is in Vilnius to meet with Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė, President Gitanas Nausėda, attend a discussion with young Lithuanians and participate in the ceremony of lighting of commemorative bonfires for the Day of Defenders of Freedom.

EP President Roberta Metsola is in Riga, where she will meet with Speaker of the Saeima Daiga Mieriņa, President of the Republic of Latvia Edgars Rinkēvičs, Prime Minister Evika Siliņa and Minister of Foreign Affairs Krišjānis Kariņš. President Metsola will then deliver a speech and participate in a discussion with young Latvians.

Official visit by Roberta METSOLA, EP President to Riga (Latvia)

Official visit by Roberta METSOLA, EP President to Vilnius (Lithuania) - Meeting with Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA, Leader of the Belarusian democratic opposition

Official visit by Roberta METSOLA, EP President to Vilnius (Lithuania) - Flag hoisting ceremony for the Day of Defenders of Freedom

Official visit by Roberta METSOLA, EP President to Vilnius (Lithuania) - Commemoration of the Day of Defenders of Freedom and award ceremony of the Freedom Prize of the Republic of Lithuania

Official visit by Roberta METSOLA, EP President to Vilnius (Lithuania) - Meeting with Viktorija CMILYTÈ-NIELSEN, Speaker of the Seimas of Lithuania

Official visit by Roberta METSOLA, EP President to Vilnius (Lithuania) - Ceremony of lighting of commemorative bonfires for the Day of Defenders of Freedom

Official visit by Roberta METSOLA, EP President to Vilnius (Lithuania) - Town Hall discussion with young Lithuanians

Official visit by Roberta METSOLA, EP President to Vilnius (Lithuania) - Meeting with Gitanas NAUSEDA, President of Lithuania

Official visit by Roberta METSOLA, EP President to Vilnius (Lithuania) - Meeting with Ingrida ŠIMONYTĖ, Lithuanian Prime Minister

Roberta METSOLA, EP President meets with Viktorija CMILYTÈ-NIELSEN, Speaker of the Seimas of Lithuania

Roberta METSOLA, EP President meets with Gitanas NAUSEDA, President of Lithuania

EP Plenary session - This is Europe - Debate with Gitanas NAUSEDA, President of Lithuania

Lituanian MEPs meet with the President Gitanas Nauseda

Roberta METSOLA, EP President meets with Gitanas NAUSEDA, President of Lithuania - Press Point

Interview of Roberta METSOLA, EP President, by LRT a Lithuanian TV

EP LIBE delegation to Latvia and Lithuania - press conference in Vilnius

EP LIBE delegation to Latvia and Lithuania - Visit to the Medininkai Foreigners Registration Centre

EP LIBE delegation to Lithuania

EP LIBE delegation to Latvia and Lithuania.

MEPs quiz the Commission and the Council on the proposal to adapt EU asylum rules in Poland, Latvia and Lithuania to deal with migrants coming from Belarus. Closing statements by Margaritis SCHINAS, Vice-President of the European Commission and by Anže LOGAR, Slovenian Minister of Foreign Affairs.

The proposed Council decision on provisional emergency measures for the external border with Belarus: closing statements by Margaritis SCHINAS, Vice-President of the European Commission and by Anže LOGAR, Slovenian Minister of Foreign Affairs

MEPs quiz the Commission and the Council on the proposal to adapt EU asylum rules in Poland, Latvia and Lithuania to deal with migrants coming from Belarus.

The proposed Council decision on provisional emergency measures for the external border with Belarus: MEPs debate

MEPs quiz the Commission and the Council on the proposal to adapt EU asylum rules in Poland, Latvia and Lithuania to deal with migrants coming from Belarus. Opening statements by Anže LOGAR, Slovenian Minister of Foreign Affairs and by Margaritis SCHINAS, Vice-President of the European Commission in charge of promoting our European Way of Life.

The proposed Council decision on provisional emergency measures for the external border with Belarus: opening statements by Anže LOGAR, Slovenian Minister of Foreign Affairs and by Margaritis SCHINAS, Vice-President of the European Commission

MEPs debate the Commission and the Council on the proposal to adapt EU asylum rules in Poland, Latvia and Lithuania to deal with migrants coming from Belarus.

The proposed Council decision on provisional emergency measures for the external border with Belarus: extracts from the debate

David SASSOLI, EP President, pays an official visit to Lithuania. He visits the Medininkai Memorial, the border point Medininkai/ Padvarionys (Lithuania/Belarus) and the NATO forces base in Rukla (Lithuania) with the Speakers of the Parliaments of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia. He also gives a press conference: extracts.

Official visit by David SASSOLI, EP President to Lithuania: visit to the Medininkai Memorial, visit at the border point Medininkai/Padvarionys (Lithuania/Belarus) and visit to the NATO Forces base

David SASSOLI, EP President pays an official visit to Vilnius, in Lithuania where he meets with Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA, Sakharov laureate 2020 and Belarus opposition leader (recorded 17/08).

Official visit by David SASSOLI, EP President to Lithuania: meeting with Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA, Sakharov laureate 2020 and Belarus opposition leader

David SASSOLI, EP President, pays an official visit to Vilnius, in Lithuania where he meets with Gitanas NAUSĖDA, President of Lithuania, Ingrida ŠIMONYTĖ, Lithuanian Prime Minister, and Viktorija ČMILYTĖ-NIELSEN, Speaker of the Seimas (Lithuanian Parliament) and extracts of the press conference.

Official visit by David SASSOLI, EP President to Lithuania: bilateral meetings with Gitanas NAUSĖDA, President of Lithuania, Viktorija ČMILYTĖ-NIELSEN, Speaker of the Seima and Ingrida ŠIMONYTĖ, Lithuanian Prime Minister and press conference

Members of the EP Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) and Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) hold an exchange of views on the migratory pressure on the Lithuanian border with Belarus in the European Parliament in Brussels with Ylva JOHANSSON, Commissioner for Home Affairs, Agnė BILOTAITĖ, Minister of Interior of Lithuania, Luc DEVIGNE, Deputy Managing Director for Russia, Eastern Partnership, Central Asia, Regional cooperation and OSCE, European External Action Service and Fabrice LEGGERI, Executive Director FRONTEX.

Migratory pressure on the Lithuanian border with Belarus in LIBE/AFET Committees: introductory remarks by the Chairs

Exchange of views in joint debate on the Migratory pressure on the Lithuanian border with Belarus between EP Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and EP Committee on Foreign Affairs. Interventions from JOHANSSON, Ylva, Commissioner for Home Affairs, LEGGERI, Fabrice, Executive Director FRONTEX, DEVIGNE, LUC, Deputy Managing Director for Russia, Eastern Partnership, Central Asia, Regional cooperation and OSCE, European External Action Service and ABRAMAVICIOUS, Arnoldas, Vice Minister of Internal of Lithuania.

EP Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs / EPCommittee on Foreign Affairs Migratory pressure on the Lithuanian border with Belarus

David SASSOLI, EP President meets with Ingrida ŠIMONYTĖ, Lithuanian Prime Minister, in the European Parliament: arrival, welcome, and roundtable

David SASSOLI, EP President meets with Ingrida ŠIMONYTĖ, Lithuanian Prime Minister: arrival, welcome, and roundtable

During the plenary session of the European Parliament in Brussels (18-21 January 2021), David SASSOLI, EP President, makes his opening remarks before the debates. He mentions the concern on Navalny's arrest in Russia, and he remembers the events that took place in Vilnius on January 13th 1991, when Russian troops attacked a human chain at the TV tower in Vilnius provoking 14 deaths and more than one hundred injured. This transcription speech is the result of an automatic process. Check against delivery.

Resumption of session and order of business: opening remarks by David SASSOLI, EP President, on Alexei Navalny's arrest in Moscow, and on January 13, 1991, bloody events in Vilnius

This infoclip provides illustrative images of Vilnius, capital of Lithuania, filmed in November 2020. It presents general views of the city, official buildings and sights, general atmosphere in the streets and historic places and buildings in the heart of the city during the coronavirus pandemic.

Infoclip: European Union Capitals - Vilnius, Lithuania

Visit of Gitanas NAUSEDA, Lithuanian President, to the European Parliamen in Brussels. Arrival and meeting with David SASSOLI, EP President.

David SASSOLI, EP President, meets with Gitanas NAUSEDA, Lithuanian President: arrival and roundtable

During the plenary session of the European Parliament (10-13/09/2018) in Strasbourg, Antonio TAJANI, EP President and Karoline EDSTADLER, Austrian State Secretary in the Ministry of the Interior, sign various legislative acts: 2 regulations of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS), and the mobilisation of the European Union Solidarity Fund to provide assistance to Bulgaria, Greece, Lithuania and Poland. Family photo with Kinga GÁL (EPP)and Janusz LEWANDOWSKI.

Lex Signing ceremony in the presence of Antonio TAJANI, EP President and Karoline EDSTADLER, Austrian State Secretary in the Ministry of the Interior

Antonio TAJANI, EP President and Linas LINKEVICIUS, Lithuanian Foreign Minister participate to the handover ceremony of “February 16th Act of Lithuanian Independence". Arrivals, ambiance shots and extracts from the ceremony

Handover ceremony of “February 16th Act of Lithuanian Independence" with the participation of Antonio TAJANI, EP President and Linas LINKEVICIUS, Lithuanian foreign minister: arrivals, ambiance shots and extracts from the ceremony

Antonio TAJANI, EP President, delivers a speech on the occasion of the ceremony for the 100 year anniversary of restoration of Lithuania's statehood in the EP in Brussels. Statements by Laima Liucija ANDRIKIENĖ (EPP, LT), Antonio TAJANI, EP President, and Viktoras PRANCKIETIS.

100 year anniversary of restoration of Lithuania's statehood: extracts from the address by Antonio TAJANI, EP President and extracts from the ceremony

Mairead McGUINNESS, Vice President of the European Parliament, Andrus ANSIP, Vice-President of the EC in charge of Digital Single Market, Valdis DOMBROVSKIS, Vice-President of the EC in charge of the Euro and Social Dialogue and Vytenis ANDRIUKAITIS, Member of the EC in charge of Health and Food Safety deliver the opening speeches at the event "Baltic States' call for freedom heard: 35 years since the first Resolution of the European Parliament supporting independence of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania” in the EP Library Hall, Brussels.

“Baltic States' call for freedom; 35 years since the first Resolution of the European Parliament supporting independence of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania": extracts from the speeches

Visit of Viktoras PRANCKIETIS , Speaker of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, to the EP in Brussels. Arrival, welcome by Antonio TAJANI, EP President, signing of the Golden Book&nbsp;and roundtable.

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