President Dalia Grybauskaitė has dismissed three judges from the Vilnius County Court, appointing them to the Court of Appeal of Lithuania. The judges in question are Goda Ambrasaitė-Balynienė, Antanas Rudzinskas and Algimantas Valantinas. […]
Viktor Uspaskich, a Lithuanian member of the European Parliament and the founder of the Labour Party, has announced he is leaving the party. […]
The Seimas, the Lithuanian Parliament, has approved the findings of the ad hoc commission tasked with probing the implementation of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decision in the case of impeached former president Rolandas Paksas. […]
Evaldas Pašilis, a judge from Ukmergė, has been appointed prosecutor general six months after his predecessor left the office. He says that one of the keys to making the system do a better job is providing more security to people working in it. […]
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius, leader of the Social Democratic Party and currently one of the most popular politicians in Lithuania, says he is not yet thinking about running for president in 2019. […]
Lithuanian Minister of Agriculture Virginija Baltraitienė will establish a commission to carry out an internal investigation into the actions of Daiva Gineikaitė, the director of the National Land Service (NZT) who was accused of having been under the influence of alcohol when she caused a traffic accident in Kaunas. […]
The Lithuanian parliament voted on Tuesday to endorse the president’s nomination of judge Evaldas Pašilis to the post of prosecutor general. […]
Lithuanian citizens with special merits to the state will be able to retain their Lithuanian passport even after becoming naturalized citizens of another country, parliament decided on Tuesday. […]
The Lithuanian Seimas snubbed Vytautas Landsbergis, chairman of the Supreme Council of Lithuania (the reconstituent Seimas) and signatory of the Independence Restoration Act, when it voted to deny him the 2015 Freedom Prize on 24 November. Now, however, the Public Council under the Commission for the Rights and Affairs of Participants of The Resistance to Occupation Regimes and Victims of Occupation has addressed Speaker of the Seimas Loreta Graužinienė, calling for the prize to be awarded to Landsbergis. […]
The Lithuanian parliament is voting on Tuesday on the new candidate for the post of prosecutor general which has been vacant since June. […]
Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis says he has been informed about how many employees in the Public Security Service were suspected of disloyalty to Lithuania. […]
Daiva Gineikaitė, head of the National Land Service (NZT) under the Ministry of Agriculture, has been temporarily placed on unpaid leave pending the results of an investigation into whether or not she was driving under the influence of alcohol when she caused a traffic accident in Kaunas, Lithuania’s second-largest city. The decision was made after her meeting with Agriculture Minister Virginija Baltraitienė on Monday. […]
Three politicians are in a close battle for the first spot in popularity ratings, a survey by the market and opinion research centre Vilmorus shows. President Dalia Grybauskaitė remains Lithuania’s most popular politician with Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius her runner-up. Saulius Skvernelis, the Minister of the Interior, is a close third. […]
The Lithuanian parliament adopted a resolution on Thursday, saying the country will continue to provide opportunities for ethnic minority communities to receive education in their native languages. […]
Lithuania may face fines following the decision by parliamentarians not to allow former Lithuanian president Rolandas Paksas to run again for elected office, according to Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius. […]
The Council of the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania has granted party leader Algirdas Butkevičius more powers in compiling the party list for the 2016 general elections. […]
A failed vote in the Lithuanian Seimas on Tuesday will prevent the leader of the ruling Order and Justice party, Rolandas Paksas, to run for parliament in next year’s elections. Observers say the situation has been engineered by the Labour Party which wants to steal Paksas’ voters. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that she is going to sign the 2016 budget, endorsed by parliament last week, into law, although it has been criticised by the European Commission and the National Audit Office. […]
The Lithuanian Seimas (parliament) once again did not pass a constitutional amendment on Tuesday that would have allowed former Lithuanian president Rolandas Paksas, who was impeached for violating the constitution in 2004, to run again for the Seimas or for the president’s office. […]
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