President Dalia Grybauskaitė has submitted to the Seimas law amendments which should improve child care, encourage placing children from care homes in foster families and accelerate adoption process. […]
The Seimas Committee on Foreign Affairs has adopted a statement on the annexation by Russia of Georgia‘s regions of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali. […]
The Seimas has ratified the agreement of the Governments of Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine on establishing a joint military unit. All 73 members of Parliament attending a plenary session voted unanimously. […]
After the European Parliament has revoked legal immunity of founder of the Labour Party Viktor Uspaskich, another Member of the European Parliament, Antanas Guoga, has told his colleague to trust Lithuanian courts. […]
Chairman of the Seimas National Security and Defence Committee, Artūras Paulauskas, says that the first conscripts, around 1,600 of them, will be drafted in August-September. Another 1,400 should be drafted in November-December and thus the total number will stand at 3,000. […]
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has offered his condolences to Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany Angela Merkel and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Spain Mariano Rajoy on the tragic Germanwings airliner crash in the French Alps, which has taken the lives of citizens of both countries, the prime minister’s press service said. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė expressed condolences, on behalf of the Lithuanian people and on her own behalf, to His Majesty King Felipe VI of Spain and to President Joachim Gauck of the Federal Republic of Germany over the loss of lives of Spanish and German citizens in a tragic plane crash in southern France, the presidential press service said. […]
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that the minimum monthly wage will be raised since 1 July 2015. Even though economic growth indicators of the first months of 2015 are not too encouraging, yet the prime minister says it is too early to tell how Lithuania will fare in collecting state budget revenue and thus salaries should grow. […]
The Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) is going to open a discussion with the public on the new social model of the country. The related legislation has been put forward for the consideration of the Tripartite Council and will be considered on March 24. […]
In February 2015, industrial production totalled EUR 1.49 billion at current prices and, compared to January, grew by 5.2 percent at constant prices, seasonally and working day adjusted – by 6.2 percent, Statistics Lithuania announced. […]
Lithuanians are the most avid online news consumers in the European Union, the Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI 2015) has revealed. With the total score of 0.5, Lithuania is ranked 7th among the EU member states in internet usage. […]
The Labour Party‘s mayoral candidate in recent elections in Vilnius, Jonas Pinskus, announced on Monday about his withdrawal from multiple positions held in the party. […]
On March 25, the Government will consider the reform of the migration system and the Migration Department. Based on the information available to ELTA news agency, it will be proposed to close down the Migration Department and transfer its functions to the Police Department. […]
News website Alfa.lt has reported that Director of the Financial Crime Investigation Service (FNTT), General Kęstutis Jucevičius, will undergo a polygraph test. Minister of the Interior Saulius Skvernelis ordered the test to be carried out by the Second Investigation Department under the Ministry of National Defence. […]
At the United Nations – first-hand testimonies on violations of human rights in Crimea and eastern Ukraine. On 19 March, the Permanent Mission of Lithuania to the United Nations held an informal meeting of members of the Security Council on the situation in Crimea and eastern Ukraine. According to Permanent Representative of Lithuania to the UN, Ambassador Raimonda Murmokaitė, we see a rapidly deteriorating situation and grave violations of human rights a year after the illegal annexation of Crimea, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports. […]
The Central Electoral Commission held a sitting on Sunday, March 22, and confirmed the final results of municipal and direct mayoral elections. […]
The number of asylum applicants in Lithuanian last year stood at 440, a 10 percent increase from 2013 with 400 applications. The applicants in Lithuania in 2014 accounted for 0.1 percent asylum seekers in the European Union in total, Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, reports. […]
After the sitting of the Council of the Labour Party, it was announced that a congress of the party will be held on 6 June and it will elect a new chairperson to replace Loreta Graužinienė who has stepped down. […]
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