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On 7 February in Brussels, Permanent Representative of Lithuania to the European Union, Ambassador Raimundas Karoblis and President of the European Parliament Jerzy Buzek discussed current energy, the European Union’s institutional and foreign policy issues. Ambassador R.Karoblis thanked J.Buzek for his active role in aiming to integrate Baltic energy networks into the EU’s single market. The Ambassador and President of the European Parliament welcomed the European Council’s decisions regarding energy policy that were made on 4 February.

During the meeting, the representative of Lithuania highlighted the increased responsibility of the European Parliament in the EU after the Treaty of Lisbon came into force and stressed J.Buzek’s personal contribution into the solution of the EU’s inter-institutional issues.

When discussing the EU’s relations with Belarus and the EU’s eastern neighbours, J.Buzek said that Lithuania, as this year’s Chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, played an important role in this region. The President of the European Parliament highlighted the activities of the European Humanities University (EHU) in Vilnius and promised to support it politically in the future.

Ambassador R.Karoblis was appointed as Lithuania’s Permanent Representative to the European Union on 4 October 2010. J.Buzek was elected as President of the European Parliament in July 2009.