After Lithuania became a member of the EU in 2004 part of the foreign policy officials had the opinion that there will be no independent Lithuanian foreign policy anymore. The time proved that assumption incorrect as the Lithuania decision makers started to pursue the activist foreign policy, especially in the EU Eastern Neighborhood. Besides, the efforts to find the ways for the small state to shape, influence some practices of the EU foreign policy making started to intensify. Together with that the adaptation to the practices of the EU started to take place. The paper analyzes evaluates these changes more extensively and tries to understand how from one side the learning process took place during these tend years and from the other how the resistance practices started to develop and the way they were implemented. The research is based on the extensive interviews of the Lithuanian foreign policy practitioners.
