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Year: 2016
Politics
MPs unimpressed by Peasants’ proposal to change election date
The ruling Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union’s idea of changing the date of parliamentary elections and curtail the current parliament’s term by six months has caused major doubts among other parliamentarians. […]
Politics
Seimas get bid to lower MP number to 101, move elections to March
A Constitutional amendment has been registered at the Lithuanian parliament, suggesting to lower the number of parliamentarians from the current 141 to 101 and move parliamentary elections from October to March. […]
CORPORATE
Skvernelites against Karbauskites – who will prevail?
Though the leaders of the Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union (LPGU) have kept repeating that they will work with the ministerial cabinet as one, but the first steps of the new government have been accompanied […]
CORPORATE
Economists working in Seimas have mixed responses to Budget 2017
Seimas has already finished packing the Christmas gifts we will be enjoying for at least a year. However economists who are members of Seimas are in no rush to celebrate. Liberal Kęstutis Glaveckas says that […]
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New and future parties leaders: Who will rise from the ashes and whose end is nearing?
The Seimas elections knocked out all three political powers previously in the majority – the Labour Party, Order and Justice and the Lithuanian Social Democrat Party (LSDP). The Homeland Union – Lithuanian Social Democrats (TS-LKD) […]
Energy
Electricity price will decline by 5% in 2017
Electricity prices for household users in Lithuania will decline by an average of 5 percent next year, the National Control Commission for Prices and Energy said on Friday. […]
Culture
Culture Committee asks society to help Seimas buy grand piano
The Lithuanian parliament’s Culture Committee has sent an open letter to the society, asking for help in buying a new grand piano. […]
Society
Most Lithuanians to spend New Year’s Eve at home
The majority of Lithuanians intend to spend the New Year’s Eve at home, shows a survey published in the Lietuvos Rytas daily on Friday. […]
Politics
Freedom Prizes awarded to Adamkus, Landsbergis
Lithuania’s parliament has awarded the Freedom Prizes to former president Valdas Adamkus and the country’s first post-independence leader Vytautas Landsbergis. […]
Economy
Uncategorized
Lithuanian court upholds EUR 36 mln fine for Russia’s Gazprom
Russian gas concern Gazprom must pay Lithuania a fine of 35.651 million euros, which was imposed two years ago for refusing to sign a gas exchange deal with Lithuania’s state-owned electricity production group Lietuvos Energijos Gamyba (Lithuanian Energy Production, LEG) formerly known as Lietuvos Energija, the Supreme Administrative Court ruled on Thursday. […]
Politics
Executing ECHR ruling on Paksas requires changing Constitution – JustMin
Without changing the Constitution, Lithuania cannot execute the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on violated rights of impeached President Rolandas Paksas, Justice Minister Milda Vainiutė says. […]
Defence
Russian spying gear found in 2016 in 3 computers of state institutions
Spying gear of Russian intelligence services was this year found in computers of three Lithuanian state institutions, says Rimtautas Černiauskas, director of the National Cyber Security Service. […]
CORPORATE
Minister of Energy: paradox but occupation isn’t over in energy industry
The new Minister of Energy Žygimantas Vaičiūnas does not deny the possibility that in negotiations to disconnect from the so-called BRELL ring there could be tensions, but states that Russia understands the goals of Lithuania and other Baltic States perfectly well. […]
Politics
Court annuls construction permit for Moscow House in Vilnius
A court has granted a request from Lithuania’s State Territorial Planning and Construction Inspectorate to annul the construction permit, issued back in 2008, for the so-called Moscow House in Vilnius. […]
Politics
Constitutional Court: Semas findings to rehab Paksas run counter to main law
The conclusions of Lithuania’s earlier parliament “on restoration of civil and political rights of President Rolandas Paksas” run counter to the Constitution, the Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday. […]
Economy
Economy
Foreign affairs
Seimas congratulates Trump on becoming US president
The Lithuanian parliament on Thursday passed a resolution congratulating US President-elect Donald Trump and wishing him every success in performing his duties and meeting the international and domestic policy commitments. […]