"The Seimas is willing to mobilize its efforts to set guidelines for a better, stronger and more unified future for us all during open parliamentary debates. As nobody else, you realize how much national parliaments of European Union member-states and the European Parliament can do for the objective," Gedvilas said in his welcoming speech at the meeting of Conference of Parliamentary Committees of Union Affairs (COSAC) at the Lithuanian Seimas (parliament) on Monday. The meeting is intended to present the priorities of Lithuanian EU Council presidency the country started on July 1.
"The elections to the European Parliament are planned for next July. Our action and initiatives will have a direct effect on the choice of European citizens between coming to polling stations and not coming. It is our shared responsibility," the Lithuanian parliamentary speaker added.
In his words, European politicians must together come up with ways of creating more jobs, promoting growth of European economies, ensuring financial resistance, boosting Europe's competition, creating an internal market for energy, services and digital economy and "restoring public trust in the European project."
