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 […]
MP Arvydas Anušauskas With the Seimas majority going after the Bank of Lithuania, we increasingly hear proposals to once more review the story of the Snoras bank’s bankruptcy. “This is a truly peculiar story,” the […]
Political investigations in Lithuania […]
A month ago, Lithuania was the first country in Europe to grant a specialised banking license to the company Revolut, which caused member of Seimas Stasys Jakeliūnas suspicions. The MP contacted the Financial Crime Investigation Service (FNTT) and State Security Department (VSD), asking them to check the financial company’s business model and links to Russian politicians, lrt.lt writes. […]
In response to an LRT complaint regarding harm to the public broadcaster’s reputation, the Seimas Ethics and Procedures Commission has recommended MP Stasys Jakeliūnas to be more reserved in expressing his opinion in public, lrt.lt writes. […]
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. […]
A group of Lithuanian lawmakers suggest initiating impeachment proceedings against MP Mykolas Majauskas, representing the opposition conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, for his alleged improper sexual conduct. […]
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 […]
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. […]
It’s summertime. Come to think of it, we could well change into swimming gear, kick off our shoes and relax at the seaside, like Boniface the lion did in a famous cartoon. This is what […]
Lithuania’s three-year tax system reform on Tuesday passed the second reading in the Seimas. […]
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 majority leaders in the Lithuanian parliament are changing their proposed plans for the personal income tax, social insurance contribution rates and non-taxable income rates. […]
The Lithuanian government’s proposed tax and pension system reform has begun stalling after reaching the parliament. […]
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. […]
Tensions remain high in the Seimas this week, with the opposition settling its accounts and dependencies with the majority. This time there was an effort to prove positions via ad hoc investigative commissions, according to […]
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