On Thursday Lithuanian Algirdas Butkevičius is leaving for a week-long official visit to India and while it should be a journey in search of new markets for Lithuanian companies, there is not a single entrepreneur accompanying the prime minister on the visit. […]
It is little wonder that the resignation of Aivaras Abromavičius, Ukraine’s Lithuanian-born Minister of Economy, has created a political uproar and a government crisis. The move should also encourage Lithuania and like-minded countries to sharpen policies towards Kiev. […]
The prime minister has to take responsibility for corruption scandals that have rattled his cabinet in recent months, said Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė after meeting with PM Algirdas Butkevičius on Wednesday morning. […]
It is good practice that Lithuanian politicians who have done something wrong are forced out of their ministerial posts, according to political scientist Lauras Bielinis. […]
A plan to try and oust Lithuania‘s prime minister ahead of upcoming elections has been ready for quite a while, according to the Prime Minister himself, Algirdas Butkevičius. […]
A recent announcement from Washington that the United States is giving a four-fold boost to its military spending in Europe has sent waves of joy through Lithuania, but it appears that most of the US military presence will be concentrated in Western Europe, which has the necessary infrastructure already in place to support American forces, rather than Eastern Europe. […]
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius will suggest that Druskininkai Mayor Ričardas Malinauskas, a fellow social democrat, suspend his membership in the party while investigators probe his suspected involvement in a shady construction project. However, Butkevičius does not believe that Malinauskas should resign from the mayor’s post. […]
Vilniaus Energija, the French-owned company managing the central heating grid in the Lithuanian capital, has accused city authorities of obstructing efforts to find a contractor to appraise the infrastructure it has to hand over to the city next year. Meanwhile a city official said the move was merely an attempt to beef up its arbitration case against Lithuania. […]
About one quarter of Lithuanians say that they have purchased faulty products or services, but only a small number of them complain to consumer rights protection bodies. […]
Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs is sceptical about the possibility of securing Russia‘s assistance in the January 13 coup case through diplomatic channels. […]
It took almost 10 years for a court’s decision regarding the Labour Party‘s fraudulent bookkeeping in 2004-2006 to come into effect. However, the Vilnius circuit court’s altered decision regarding the sentence for Viktor Uspaskich, the party’s disgraced founder, raised a storm of commentary. Few seem to have expected the appeal court’s decision. How could it be that the accused got away with a tiny fine when they had been working to hide millions? […]
Lithuania’s Social Democratic Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has filed a defamation suit against conservative member of parliament Agnė Bilotaitė. […]
More than 120 officials of the State Border Guard Service have been convicted of corruption in the last decade, with charges brought against 15 border guards last year. […]
Lithuania is celebrating Mardi Gras on Tuesday, or as it is called locally, Užgavėnės. On this day, Lithuanians traditionally chase out the winter and have fun before the seven-week lent period leading up to Easter. […]
Agriculture Minister Virginija Baltraitienė has accepted resignation of her deputy Vilius Martusevičius over alleged corruption in the ministry’s food for poor programme. […]
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