Amid complaints from Lithuanian Jewish Community representatives and Litvaks living in Israel and South Africa, at least two Lithuanian parliamentary committees are planning to look into the reasons why citizenship restoration applications from Jews who left the country in the interwar period and their descendants are being rejected. […]
The Lithuanian parliament has finished debating a Labour Code reform package and approved the draft document, ending an important stage in the process liberalizing the country’s labour market. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has agreed with the finance minister and his party to propose value added tax (VAT) cuts for chilled and fresh meat. […]
Lithuania’s Social Democrats continue to fall in opinion polls, but the biggest loser over the last month is the conservative Homeland Union. […]
Members of the Lithuanian parliament have rejected a bill outlawing gender-based harassment, as required by the European Union. […]
Antanas Sireika, a former head coach of the Lithuanian national men’s basketball team, plans to run for parliament this autumn on the Social Democratic ticket. […]
The ruling Lithuanian Social Democratic Party has decided not to propose calling a referendum on dual citizenship to be held alongside parliamentary elections this October. […]
Druskininkai Mayor Ričardas Malinauskas and former members of the Druskininkai branch of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party are forming a new movement. […]
The Lithuanian Prosecutor General’s Office has appealed a ruling in the Labour Party‘s fraudulent bookkeeping case to the Supreme Court and asked it to send the case back to the Court of Appeals Court re-examination. […]
The Lithuanian parliament will hold three plenary sittings a week in May and June instead of the usual two in an effort to adopt all the legislation in the s-called new social model package by the end of the spring session. […]
Former Lithuanian president Valdas Adamkus has expressed strong opinions about the refugee crisis affecting Europe, saying that the wave of immigrants could not be trusted, but also saying that categorical positions against the acceptance of refugees were also wrong. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has vetoed amendments to the Criminal Code introducing criminal liability for making material from closed court sessions public. […]
Support for the ruling Lithuanian Social Democratic Party dropped considerably in April, a survey published by Lietuvos Rytas has showed. […]
The Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union (LŽVS) has finalized its candidate list for October’s general elections. Former Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis is topping the list. […]
A proposal to set up a commission which would look into alleged “manipulation of intelligence data” cleared the first hurdle at the Lithuanian parliament on Thursday. This, says Liberal leader Eligijus Masiulis, is the first step in an attempt to impeach the Lithuanian president. […]
A new poll has revealed surprising shifts in Lithuania’s political landscape with government parties’ support slumping. […]
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has been named a victim in a pre-trial investigation looking into the publishing of phone conversation transcripts. […]
Several political parties would like to have a Lithuanian Olympic champion Virgilijus Alekna in their candidate lists during October’s general elections, while the athlete himself says he has not yet made up his mind about going into politics. […]
One year after the first-ever direct mayoral elections in Lithuania, public trust in municipal authorities have grown, but the systemic problems are programmed into the local governments, experts say. […]
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