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Grybauskaitė vetoes bill easing restrictions on repeat residence permits for foreigners

July 13, 2016 BNS 0

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has vetoed a bill proposed by Social Democrat MP Algirdas Sysas and adopted by the Seimas (parliament) that suggest that certain requirements for third-country nationals would only apply for their first application for residence permits in Lithuania, and that the permit would later be extended almost automatically.

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Lithuanian PM seeks opposition support to overturn presidential veto on Labour Code

July 13, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius has met with the leader of the parliamentary opposition to request support for overturning the presidential veto on the parliament-approved Labour Code.

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NATO summit, EU after Brexit top agenda for president’s meeting with parliament

July 5, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite is meeting with the heads of the Seimas’ Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Parliamentary Committee on European Affairs to discuss issues at the top of the agenda of NATO and the European Union. […]

Mixed reactions to veto of Labour Code by Lithuania’s president

July 5, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

There were mixed reactions to the decision by Lithuania’s president to veto the government proposed new Labour Code with some broadly supportive of her amendments and action and other political leaders and businesses highly critical. […]

Butkevicius says union criticism and ‘a few protesters’ behind presidential veto of Labour Code

July 4, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius has claimed that the Lithuanian President’s decision to veto the new Labour Code could drag it back into a Soviet era and was driven by unions and “several tens of protestors”. […]

Lithuania’s president will take no vacation again this year

July 4, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaite plans to take no vacation again this year.

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Lithuania’s President vetoes new Labour Code and reproductive law

July 4, 2016 Lithuania Tribune 0

Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė today vetoed the government’s controversial new Labour Code, sending it back to parliament and blocked a new law on artificial insemination that had drawn widespread criticism.

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Lithuanian MPs’ charitable foundations not transparent, says international watchdog

July 4, 2016 BNS 0

Most of the charity and support foundations linked to Lithuanian parliamentarians (Seimas members) do not provide public information about their activities, Transparency International Lithuania said.

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Why Russia is liking Brexit – a return to a multipolar Europe

July 1, 2016 Alexander Baunov 0

The Kremlin is enjoying the discomfort that Brexit is causing to the European Union. But that does not mean that it wants Europe broken up. It just wants a return to old-fashioned bilateral diplomacy. […]

Lithuania launches new initiative against vote-buying before elections

June 30, 2016 BNS 0

The heads of Lithuania’s ministries for interior and justice and the Central Electoral Commission signed on Thursday a memorandum on cooperation in combating vote-buying during elections.

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Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaite

Brexit ‘a protest vote against Britain’s political elite’, says Lithuania’s president

June 28, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

Britain’s vote to leave the European Union was a protest vote against the political elite in Britain rather than a vote in favour of leaving the EU according Lithuania’s president.

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Lithuania’s new labour code triggers revolt in ruling Social Democratic Party

June 27, 2016 BNS 0

A group of members of the Vilnius branch of the ruling Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) staged a protest action in front of the party’s central headquarters today to voice their opposition to the new government-initiated Labour Code. […]

Prosecutor general asks parliament to strip MP Gapšys of legal immunity

June 23, 2016 BNS 0

Lithuania’s Prosecutor General Evaldas Pašilis on Thursday addressed the Seimas (parliament) with a request to strip Vytautas Gapšys, a Labour Party MP, of legal immunity.

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‘No new taxes in the near future’ – new Finance Minister

June 23, 2016 BNS 0

The current government has no plans to introduce any new taxes, says Lithuania’s new finance minister, backtracking from her earlier statement that real estate and car taxes were only a matter of time.

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New Labour Code ‘bulldozes’ workers’ rights – Grybauskaitė

June 23, 2016 www.lrt.lt 0

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has criticised the new Labour Code reform, saying that a majority of the changes were only beneficial to employers.

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Lithuania to appoint defence advisers to embassies in US and Ukraine

June 22, 2016 Lithuania Tribune 0

Lithuania will appoint defence advisers at its embassies in the United States and Ukraine, in line with a decision adopted by the government on Wednesday.

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Lithuania’s Seimas passes new Labour Code

June 22, 2016 BNS 0

After six months of debates, Lithuania’s Seimas (parliament) on Tuesday voted on a new and highly disputed Labour Code, which, if signed into law by President Dalia Grybauskaitė, will come into effect in 2017.

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Prosecutor reveals corruption accusations against Gapšys

June 21, 2016 BNS 0

Prosecutors have revealed how they believe Vytautas Gapšys, the Labour Party MP who is suspected of corruption, might have acted in favor of the MG Baltic concern, which is also being investigated for potentially having bribed the Labour Party’s chairman, Eligijus Masiulis.

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Lithuanian MEP offers Farage €1m bet that Britain won’t Brexit

June 21, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

Lithuanian member of the European Parliament Antanas Guoga has offered a bet to Britain’s Nigel Farage: if the Leave campaign wins in the UK’s referendum on Thursday, the Lithuanian would donate €1 million to a charity of Farage’s choice. […]

Lithuania’s new finance minister: Real estate and car taxes are coming sooner or later

June 20, 2016 BNS 0

Rasa Budbergytė, Lithuania’s former representative at the European Court of Auditors, has been appointed as the country’s new finance minister.

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