Politics
Lithuanian government to table bill paving way for online voting
The Lithuanian Cabinet on Wednesday approved a bill paving the way for developing an online voting system and will now send it to the parliament for approval. […]
Month: February 2018
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian parliament speaker arrives in Warsaw
Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Lithuanian parliament, arrived in Warsaw on Wednesday to deliver a speech at the Polish parliament and to meet with its leaders. […]
Politics
President doubts justice minister’s competence (Updated)
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that she doubts whether Justice Minister Milda Vainiutė and Deputy Justice Minister Raimondas Bakšys are competent enough to perform their duties. […]
CORPORATE
Asking the people, who could be presidential candidates
With public opinion and market research centre Vimorus inquired, who could run for president, people chiefly mentioned three names: Gitanas Nausėda, Saulius Skvernelis and Visvaldas Matijošaitis. It is specifically this trio, which has been leading […]
History
The first GDL cities with Magdeburg Rights
Communities of city burghers created self-governing cities as a result of the city burghers’ struggles with sovereigns for cities’ rights and freedoms at first in Western Europe from the 11th century to the 13th century, and in Central Europe in the 13th and 14th centuries. The self-governing city burgher communities were legally separated from the state and received independence from the noble class. […]
Defence
Minister of defence set to raise soldier wages by almost 30 pct within 4 years
Salaries of troops serving in Lithuania’s military should go up by 30 percent within the next four years, officials of the Defence Ministry say, adding that new packages of social benefits have been drafted in an effort to motivate troops to stay in service. […]
Politics
Whistleblower accuses deputy justice minister of stalling audit of prisons system
Rasa Kazėnienė, former employee of the Lithuanian Prisons Department who is currently working at the Justice Ministry, has accused Vice-Minister Raimondas Bakšys of aiming to stall the audit of the prisons system. […]
CORPORATE
Two faces of dual citizenship
Up to the referendum on dual citizenship it is necessary to clearly answer questions of whether foreign “spies” will not appear in the Lithuanian military, whether we will have MPs living thousands of kilometres away […]
Defence
Drills will allow better preparation for hybrid threats – transport minister
The Wednesday’s training for Lithuania’s strategic transport companies, the Armed Forces and the Aras anti-terrorist unit will allow better preparations for hybrid threats, says Transport and Communications Minister Rokas Masiulis. […]
Defence
Strategic transport firms to drill response to hybrid threats
Lithuania’s state-run railway company Lietuvos Geležinkeliai together with other strategic transport companies, the Armed Forces and Aras anti-terrorist unit will Wednesday hold a practice of response to hybrid threats. […]
Politics
Government to discuss online voting system
The Lithuanian Cabinet of ministers will Wednesday discuss a bill that would pave way for development of an online voting system, which is expected to be tested during the next parliamentary elections in 2020. […]
Foreign affairs
Seimas speaker to celebrate centennial of statehood in Warsaw
A delegation of Lithuanian parliamentarians headed by Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis is leaving for Warsaw on Wednesday to celebrate 100 years of Lithuania’s restored statehood. […]
Society
Tighter issuing of Lithuanian business visas will prevent sham mediation firms – Ministry of the Interior
Lithuanian authorities tightened the procedures of issuing business visas in an effort to curb illegal migration in hopes of preventing sham mediation companies, the Interior Ministry said. […]
Foreign affairs
Sports
Tourism Department disappointed Ball brothers refused getting to know Lithuania
Lithuania’s Tourism Department has expressed disappointment over the refusal of the crew of the reality show about US basketball players Balls to get to know Lithuania instead of promoting stereotypes about the Baltic state. […]
Society
Universities call for scrapping requirement for rectors to speak Lithuanian
The Lithuanian University Rectors’ Conference, or LURK, calls for discarding the requirement for higher schools’ rectors to speak the Lithuanian language. […]
CORPORATE
Ramūnas Bogdanas. Inheritance in state governance
It has been three decades now that talks have been held in Lithuania about the importance of continuity in state governance. If the measurement is the gap between elections, it is hard to create anything […]
CORPORATE
Rasa Juknevičienė. We had better learn to live without Russia
Over and over again, we keep hearing the same imperative on Lithuania’s relations with Russia. Over and over again we are beckoned to remain friends and blamed for the lack of friendship. In fact, the […]
European Union
Strasbourg court rejects complaint over Lithuanian writer Petkevičius’ book
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday rejected a complaint by the daughter of the late Lithuanian writer Vytautas Petkevičius over her liability for false statements published in her father’s book about the father of Lithuania’s first post-independence leader Vytautas Landsbergis. […]
Society
Temps in eastern Lithuania dip below -25C, cold records broken in Western part
Temperatures last night dropped below minus 25 degrees Celsius in some places in eastern Lithuania and cold records were broken in the western part of the country. […]