Minister of Agriculture Virginija Baltraitienė might have to explain herself to official ethics watchdogs after it has emerged that the ministry’s food for poor programme awarded a government contract to a company linked to the minister’s party colleague Viktor Uspaskich. […]
A group wants to collect 50,000 signatures under a petition which would force parliament to reconsider refugee resettlement in Lithuania. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is somewhat sceptical about the so-called new social model, a package of reforms to the labour code and the country’s welfare system. […]
The Lithuanian branch of Transparency International (TILS), an international anti-corruption watchdog, has proposed a range of new measures to make Lithuanian political parties more transparent. They include requirements to publish more information about their financing and to impose stricter sanctions for political campaign financing violations. […]
The opposition Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (conservatives) intend to call an extraordinary session of the Seimas (parliament) on February 17 to launch impeachment procedures against Labour Party MP Vytautas Gapšys. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė is to have a “serious conversation” with Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius about corruption suspicions that have plagued his cabinet over the last week. The meeting is scheduled for next week, after Butkevičius comes back from vacation. […]
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius is not planning to cut short his vacation in the Caribbean despite several of his cabinet ministers becoming embroiled in controversy. […]
The Special Investigation Service (STT) intends to interview Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius and Environment Minister Kęstutis Trečiokas as part of an investigation into construction in the territory of Druskininkai Vijūnėlė Manor, southern Lithuania. […]
Healthcare Minister Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė has been urged to step down for a “variety of reasons” that are not only to do with corruption in the healthcare system, says advisor to the Lithuanian president Mindaugas Lingė. […]
Last month, the conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats set up new party chapters in Switzerland and the City of London. The conservatives are planning to continue with divisions in the United States and Poland, according to the daily Lietuvos Žinios. […]
It still pays to defraud, steal and avoid taxes in Lithuania, the country’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Monday, commenting on the Court of Appeals verdict in the Labour Party‘s fraudulent bookkeeping case. […]
Viktor Uspaskich, a member of the European Parliament and founder of Lithuania’s Labour Party, has been cleared of tax avoidance charges by the Lithuanian Court of Appeals which overturned a previous prison sentence imposed on the politician. He will still have to pay a fine of €6,800 for hiding income and expenses in his party’s accounts. […]
The Lithuanian Court of Appeals is to hand down a ruling in the Labour Party‘s bookkeeping fraud case on Monday, paving way for the verdict in the case to take effect. […]
Former Vilnius mayor Artūras Zuokas, leader of the Lithuanian Freedom Union, says his party is planning to approach the Liberal Movement about joining forces in the general elections this October. […]
Healthcare Minister Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė, who said last Friday she was stepping down over suspected corruption, will submit her letter of resignation after the prime minister comes back from holidays next week. […]
Both the Lithuanian president and the prime minister said on Friday that Health Minister Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė of the Social Democrats should step down amid corruption suspicions. The minister said she would hand in a letter of resignation and wait for the prime minister’s decision. […]
Lithuania’s Minister of Healthcare Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė is being investigated for allegedly demanding bribes from hospitals in exchange for EU support, 15min.lt reports. […]
Healthcare Minister Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė has admitted she once gave a bribe to doctors. She made the comments while discussing small-scale corruption that is wide-spread in the country’s healthcare system. […]
Lithuania’s ethics watchdog has decided not to investigate Education Minister Audronė Pitrėnienė who caused controversy by taking her husband on an official trip to London. […]
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