One crisis after another keeps falling on the shoulders of those in power. Some politicians are watching them and not expressing their opinion in public, while others are criticising or even raising the question of […]
The Conservatives are like the “Farmers” and the new Seimas is akin to the old, just symmetrically flipped from left to right. This comparison comes to mind when looking at the recently minted Seimas election […]
The Seimas closed its spring session, which had started on 10 March 2020. This year, the session was held under extraordinary conditions because of the coronavirus. The number of plenaries exceeded the planned figure and […]
The Farmer Greens intend to take up dealing with social questions next political season, which, experts and the opposition say, is what the people are most expecting of them. “No doubt important works also await […]
Lithuania’s Constitutional Court on Friday approved for consideration the case of MP Kestutis Pukas charged with sexual harassment. […]
Gintautas Paluckas, the newly-elected leader of the Social Democratic Party (LSDP), says that the party’s political group in the Seimas will support the principles for a reform of universities proposed by a prime minister-appointed working group. […]
Lithuania should have 121 parliamentarians, says Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis. […]
Car rent, hidden relations, furs and an expensive designer coat, national costumes, a grand piano in Seimas, opposition to anti-violence against children legislation and an attempt to change the in vitro fertilisation legislation which was […]
The Seimas will next month hold an extraordinary session to pass a framework law on children’s rights protection, Rima Baškienė, the deputy speaker of the Lithuanian parliament, confirmed to BNS. […]
The political group of the ruling Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU) in the Seimas is united as never before, Ramūnas Karbauskis, its leader, said on Wednesday. […]
Ramūnas Karbauskis, chairman of the ruling Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU), sees a recent scandal surrounding LPGU MP Greta Kildišienė as “the first serious attempt to undermine the government that has been elected by people”. […]
The Lithuanian Prosecutor General’s Office has asked the Seimas to lift the legal immunity of two lawmakers — Mantas Adomėnas of the conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) and Naglis Puteikis, a member of the Peasant and Green Union’s political group in the parliament — in separate defamation cases. […]
The Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrat (TS-LKD) party’s problems have remained throughout the leadership of both Andrius Kubilius and Gabrielius Landsbergis and without changes at the very top leadership the Conservatives will not eradicate their flaws. This is what one of the candidates to party chairmanship Paulius Saudargas. […]
Lithuanian Environment Minister Kęstutis Navickas proposes to establish a single enterprise to manage state forests. […]
Already prior to the Seimas elections, the leaders of the new government promised to “reset” Lithuanian-Polish relations. Both Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis and the Seimas have rhetorically committed to this a number of times. On […]
Research commissioned by the Eastern Europe Studies Centre shows that more than two thirds of ethnic minority representatives view Russian President Vladimir Putin positively. Making a sad joke, former head of the centre, now member […]
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