EU has to duly inform citizens about decision making processes, Lithuanian Foreign Vice-Minister says
At the seminar on the relevance of subsidiarity at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations ‘Clingendael’ in The Hague on 23 January, the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Vytautas Leškevičius stressed that the EU had to duly inform its citizens about the decision making processes on matters which concern them, strengthen cooperation between the EU institutions and fully exploit the opportunities provided by the existing EU agreements.
The event focused on the European Union’s future, institutional reforms and the consolidation of the principle of subsidiarity in the EU’s legislation.
The seminar was organized by the Clingendael Institute and the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands.
The seminar in The Hague was attended by representatives of the EU Member States, the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union, the European Parliament, the Netherlands Institute of International Relations ‘Clingendael’ and the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS).
On the eve of the seminar, the Foreign Vice-Minister V.Leškevičius and Daphne Bergsma, Director of the Europe Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands discussed important issues related to Lithuania, the Netherlands, the European Union, and others.
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