7 July 2026

Lithuania's parliament is starting to weigh rule changes today that would make it easier to keep Seimas sessions running during mobilisation or wartime. The draft would require lawmakers to be told about an extraordinary sitting at least four hours in advance, and would scrap the cap on session length and the mandatory breaks between extraordinary sessions. The explanatory note says the current framework does not clearly set out continuity arrangements or dedicated funding for the Seimas, the presidency and the government.

Finance minister Kristupas Vaitiekūnas said Lithuania will receive another 153 million euros today from the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility. It is the sixth payment under the New Generation Lithuania plan and lifts total inflows to 2.84 billion euros, or 74.1% of the country's allocation. The government expects to submit its final payment request in September for 995 million euros, after completing 80% of the plan's milestones.

Two sensitive constitutional matters are also due today. The Constitutional Court is set to rule on Raimondas Kurlianskis' complaint over electronic communications surveillance without a maximum time limit, and parliament is to receive an amendment scrapping Article 137, which bans weapons of mass destruction and foreign military bases on Lithuanian soil. Police and banks are also warning about a spreading fraud scheme in which scammers contact people who have already lost money, promise recovery help and then extract another transfer or login details.

NATO air policing fighters are training in northern Lithuania today. The air force says residents may hear sonic-boom-like bangs in the areas where allied jets go supersonic.

Lithuania lost another case at the European Court of Human Rights over unlawful detention in a suspected CIA prison. NATO said Europe’s core defence spending for 2026 rose 11%.