The Liberal Movement has improved its position in terms of the number of council seats following the Sunday local elections in Lithuania, compared to the last municipal elections in 2011. […]
Increasing popularity of the Liberal Movement is the main take-away from Sunday’s local elections in Lithuania, political experts say. […]
Representatives of the Liberal Movement and the conservative Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats agreed on Monday to seek setting up a ruling coalition in the capital city Vilnius. […]
Briton Mark Adam Harold will be the first foreign national to be elected to a local government in Lithuania. The candidate with the Liberal Movement party was voted into Vilnius City Council after Sunday’s municipal elections. […]
Lithuania’s ruling Social Democratic Party won the highest number of votes in the elections to local governments overall on Sunday, but are behind right-wing parties in the country’s largest cities, according to preliminary election results published early on Monday. […]
Liberal MP Remigijus Šimašius and incumbent Mayor Artūras Zuokas will face one another in the run-off election for Vilnius mayor, the Central Electoral Commission said on Monday. […]
Hundreds of Vilnius residents took part in a march in memory of murdered Russian opposition activist Boris Nemtsov, expressing solidarity with people attending an opposition march in Moscow. […]
Directly-elected mayors will have the same powers they have now but they will also have a double amount of responsibility on their shoulders, Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Loreta Graužinienė says. Meanwhile opposition leader Andrius Kubilius warns that the new system of local elections will spell more problems for the new mayors who will have to closely cooperate with city councils. […]
Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužinienė and Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius both say they would not support the idea of making military service mandatory for women as well as men. […]
US liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports to Lithuania would prevent Russia from using “energy blackmail” against the country, Lithuanian Energy Minister Rokas Masiulis, who is meeting with US energy companies this week, said, noting that energy resources are now as important as arms exports. […]
About 20 investigations have already been opened in Lithuania into violations reported during the elections to local governments, the Police Department said. […]
Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said at the end of his US visit that the United States was aware of Lithuania’s security concerns, emphasizing the importance of demonstrating Lithuania’s serious stance on collective defence – possibly in the form of reintroducing conscription. […]
Amid the European Commission’s (EC) analysis whether the Lithuanian Law on the Protection of Minors against the Detrimental Effect of Public Information is in line with the European Union (EU) law, a group of MEPs on Thursday criticized the Baltic state for the continuing discrimination of LGBTI people. […]
The European Commission calls on Lithuania to improve its tax system and deal with demographic problems, which pose challenges to the country’s growth potential. […]
The Russian aggression in Ukraine has shown that countries bordering Russia may need special forces, says the Lithuanian Defence Ministry’s Political Director Vaidotas Urbelis. […]
International human rights organization Amnesty International has issued its annual report on the human rights situation around the world and is criticizing Lithuania for violations of rights of LGBTI people as well as accusing the country of “evasion, denial and delays” regarding alleged CIA prisons in the country. […]
Elective military education classes should be introduced in Lithuanian schools next year, the country’s Education and Science Minister Dainius Pavalkis says. […]
Higher early voting turnout has been reported in Lithuania’s municipal and the first direct mayoral elections this year as compared to the last local elections in 2011. […]
The Italian Typhoon fighter jets, stationed in the Lithuanian northern city of Šiauliai as part of NATO’s Baltic air policing mission, were on Wednesday scrambled to accompany two Russian military transport aircraft flying over the Baltic Sea. […]
UNESCO experts have ended discussions on the issue of constructing a bridge between mainland Lithuania and the Curonian Spit. The delegation inspected the site in response to Russia‘s complaints, the Lietuvos Žinios daily reports. […]
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