Lithuanian president's office rejects call to send PM to EU summits 2021-02-09 Photo: FinnishGovernment VILNIUS – Calls by some conservative MPs that the prime minister, rather than the president, should represent Lithuania at EU summit meetings, are unfounded, Gitanas Nauseda's chief foreign policy advisor said on Tuesday, adding that the current practice "is working well and could continue to work". Some politicians began to raise the issue "artificially" after last October's parliamentary election to achieve certain domestic policy goals, according to Asta Skaisgiryte. "It seems to me that this discussion was artificially sparked in our domestic politics," she told the Ziniu Radijas radio station. "The discussion began to unfold in the public domain when the current Seimas majority came to power."