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. […]
Existing Lithuanian laws allow for political manipulation using classified criminal intelligence reports, an investigation by the Lithuanian Seimas Committee on Legal Affairs has revealed. […]
A State prosecutor filed an appeal against the acquittal of presidential spokeswoman Daiva Ulbinaitė on charges of leaking a state secret, stressing at the Supreme Court on Wednesday that President Dalia Grybauskaitė should also be interviewed in the case. […]
Lithuania’s Ethics Commission will decide whether to open an investigation into the controversy surrounding the Minister for Education and Science, Audronė Pitrėnienė, bringing her husband with her on an official trip to London. […]
Lithuania is seen as less corrupt than before as the country moves up seven spots in Transparency International‘s corruption perception index. […]
The number of Lithuanians using self-service parcel terminals increased by 55% in 2015 driven by an increase in online shopping, according to Baltic Post, who operate parcel kiosks across Lithuania. […]
Litgas, the gas trading arm of the state-owned energy group Lietuvos Energija, will sign a renewed liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply contract with Norway‘s Statoil on Monday. […]
Parliament member Giedrė Purvaneckienė, of the Social Democrats, has drafted a bill which would outlaw female genital mutilation. […]
Algirdas Paleckis, the founder and long-time member of the Socialist People’s Front in Lithuania, has cancelled his membership in the organisation and political party he helped create. […]
Lithuania will manage to successfully integrate refugees from the Middle East, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius believes, but said that the process will present many challenges. […]
On Wednesday the Lithuanian Government approved a proposal to eliminate annuities for presidents’ widows or widowers. Based on the proposed rules, the spouse of a president would instead receive a state pension. […]
This year’s budget for Vilnius will prioritize the renovation and renewal of existing educational buildings and the renovation of drive-ways, sidewalks and bicycle paths, said Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius. […]
Seimas Speaker Loreta Graužinienė has sent a request for information to the Special Investigation Service (STT) about Deputy Speaker Kęstas Komskis after Liberal MP Andrius Mazuronis requested that she probe whether Komskis was suitable for the post. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė warned government ministers against indulging in pre-electoral populism over an invitation-only lunch with the prime minister and his cabinet to discuss the government’s key objectives for 2016. […]
Lithuania’s Ministry of Health is to draft an action plan for a concerted effort to fight alcoholism within less than a month, the government decided during a cabinet meeting on Monday. […]
One of Lithuania’s major parties, the conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, has finalized a list of candidates to run in single-member constituencies in October’s general elections. […]
The Mayor of Vilnius District, Marija Rekst, is under investigation for hiring her niece to run the municipality’s administration. […]
United Kingdom‘s Minister of State for Europe David Lidington is visiting Lithuania on Thursday and Friday. He is to meet with Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius and attend the Snow Meeting of security policy experts on Thursday. […]
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