Dalia Grybauskaitė
Politics

President calls for open selection of public service staff

Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė will propose legal amendments, calling for open selection of specialists hired to the public sector under employment contracts, the President’s Office said on Wednesday. […]

Veolia
Foreign affairs

President’s office calls for refraining from comments on Veolia-Lithuania dispute

The Lithuanian president’s office does not comment and calls on others to refrain from comments on the ongoing dispute between France’s Veolia and Lithuania in the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) in Washington. […]

Viktoras Pranckietis, Dalia Grybauskaitė
CORPORATE

Seimas Speaker meets President Dalia Grybauskaitė

Seimas Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis met with President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Monday to discuss further cooperation. Assistant to the head of state Mindaugas Lingė states that the currently most pressing task is to balance next year’s budget. […]

Mindaugas Lingė
Politics

President’s office: Local elections showed that democracy in Lithuania is on the right track

Mindaugas Lingė, the presidential advisor on internal affairs, says that the new system of electing Lithuanian mayors directly did not cause a revolution, but that people of the country themselves confirmed that the political system in Lithuania is in a good state. […]