Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius has sent in to take part in an environment cleanup campaign “Let’s do it 2009”. Prime Minister wrote a letter to the state institutions urging them to join the campaign. “Year by year warmer weather and approaching spring manifest the level of our sense of ecology and urge us to focus on environment cleanup.

Upon the completion of the second working session of the European Council, Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius welcomed its results and the agreements it had reached. The Prime Minister was also very positive about the pledge to double the emergency funding to EU states that are not members of the euro zone to €50 billion as a sign of European solidarity.

After the first working session of the European Council that ran late into the night, Lithuanian Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius welcomed the agreement on an additional EUR 5 billion investment in European energy and infrastructure projects. This decision should help Lithuania, Latvia and Sweden implement a planned power bridge spanning the Baltic Sea. The European Council allocated EUR 175 million for the interconnection project.

Earlier this morning, before the working session of the European Council, Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius had a meeting with his Latvian colleague Valdis Dombrovskis. This has been Andrius Kubilius’s first bilateral meeting with the newly appointed Latvian Prime Minister. The counterparts discussed the complicated economic and financial situation in the region, focussing however on joint energy projects.

In Brussels, Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius attended the meeting of Nordic and Baltic Prime Ministers – the meeting which is traditionally held to discuss their opinions right before the first working session of the European Council. The today‘s meeting, among other topics, covered the worsening financial and economic situation of the whole region. The Danish and Finnish Prime Ministers remarked that their countries, which had been in a somewhat better position so far, had also been facing the deteriorating economic indicators.

Today the Lithuanian Government has approved nomination of Mindaugas Butkus as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Germany and has submitted his candidacy to the President.

Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius sent a telegram with greetings to new Latvian Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis. A. Kubilius feels confident that the Latvian Prime Minister‘s extensive experience in the public service will help him cope with big challenges in this important and challenging post.

Following an informal meeting of the EU Heads of State or Government, the Lithuanian Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius underlined that the EU leaders had an in-depth discussion on how to restore public trust in the European Union. The Prime Minister expressed his personal confidence in the EU’s ability to find a way out from the current crisis; and with a view to building broader public trust, coordinated and united actions need to be taken on the European level even more efficiently.

Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius has met with Prime Minister of Sweden Fredrik Reinfeldt in Stockholm today. The Prime Ministers of the neighbourly states have discussed energy projects of Lithuania and the Baltic States, the situation in the financial markets of Lithuania, Sweden, Europe, and the world, as well as the forthcoming Swedish EU Presidency, to be assumed in July 2009.

Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius has met with Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden, Minister for Enterprise and Energy Maud Olofsson on the first day of his official visit to the Kingdom of Sweden. The Minister has informed Kubilius about the Swedish Cabinet’s agreement on the long-term sustainable energy and climate change, which was reached among the four governing parties several weeks ago.