The ruling majority and Seimas Budget and Finance Committee (BFK) chairman Stasys Jakeliūnas, who is leading them into battle against the head of the Bank of Lithuania (BL), were unable to pass a no-confidence motion […]
Political investigations in Lithuania […]
The Lithuanian Social Democratic Labour Party could back the presidential bid of Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis if he chose to run for president, however the party is also considering the candidacies of Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius and former Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius, LSDDP member Juozas Bernatonis told lrt.lt. A. Butkevičius himself assures he is only considering participating in the European Parliament elections. […]
The Seimas Committee on Budget and Finance will request President Dalia Grybauskaitė to answer questions on the financial crisis. She will be sent questions about the actions of commercial banks and the Bank of Lithuania by committee chairman Stasys Jakeliūnas. Former Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius criticises such pursuits and similarly to the president, describes S. Jakeliūnas as inadequate, lrt.lt writes. […]
There is too great a concentration of Swedish banks in Lithuania, thus one of them should be sold. This was a statement by Seimas Budget and Finance Committee chairman Stasys Jakeliūnas on Wednesday. SEB bank and Swedbank – these are namely two Swedish capital banks operating in Lithuania and other Baltic states and if they didn’t flinch, they must have at least been listening carefully, this was a statement by a politician from the ruling coalition. […]
Lithuania’s central banker says he sees no clear signs of an upcoming new economic crisis but warns about slowing growth. […]
The Bank of Lithuania could have tightened supervision rules for the banking sector before the last crisis but failed to do so, Vitas Vasiliauskas, chairman of the Bank of Lithuania, says. […]
The Lithuanian parliament overturned on Thursday President Dalia Grybauskaitė‘s veto of amendments tightening the requirements for the construction of waste-to-energy plants, leaving in place the legislation it passed in September. […]
Member of Seimas Stasys Jakeliūnas has taken aim at the cabinet of Andrius Kubilius – at Kubilius himself and Ingrida Šimonytė. However, earlier S. Jakeliūnas was blaming not them, but the previous government – the […]
To even his own surprise, Gitanas Nausėda suddenly thought that the question of homosexual partnership should be resolved through a referendum, Indrė Makaraitytė writes on lrt.lt. It is hard to say, which of his team […]
The Lithuanian government does not propose to increase the taxation of real estate, at least not for now, but it may ask the Seimas to tax polluting vehicles. […]
Economist Gitanas Nausėda, leaving the position of advisor to SEB bank president, plans to announce his decision on whether he will run for Lithuanian president soon. […]
Lithuania’s three-year tax system reform on Tuesday passed the second reading in the Seimas. […]
The Lithuanian parliament on Friday took another step toward adopting a part of the government’s proposed tax reform package, including setting a ceiling on social insurance contributions, shifting a part of these contributions onto the employee and taxing it at 19.5 percent, and using only central government budget funds to pay the basic part of pensions. […]
Tax reform and a new parliamentary investigation are two barriers that the “Farmers” are obstructed by, apparently failing to find common ground within the Seimas group, lrt.lt writes. Some of the closest companions of Lithuanian […]
The Lithuanian parliament’s Committee on Social Affairs and Labor on Wednesday approved of a ceiling on employees’ contributions to the state social insurance fund Sodra, back-pedaling on a decision to oppose the measure it took last week. […]
For a Lithuania where it is good to live and corruption will be wiped out with a bang. Such were the campaign slogans for the Liberal Movement leaders, who are being ever more bogged down […]
MG Baltic group VP Raimondas Kurlianskis boasted to a number of high state officials that he maintains close connections with not only the Liberals, but also the Conservatives. From secret data gathered by officers it […]
The threat of breaking up is looming over the Lithuanian Farmer and Greens Union (LVŽS) Seimas group: some ten members may withdraw from it. Povilas Urbšys, who left the “Farmers” last week and could have […]
The Lithuanian parliament on Thursday asked the Committee on Budget and Finance (CBF) to scrutinize the handling of public finances by the country’s previous governments since 2005. […]
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