Looking back at the achievements of the government headed by social democratic Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius over 2015, President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that while there are considerable accomplishments, procrastination in certain area will mean that the next government will inherit serious problems. […]
A member of the Lithuanian parliament has proposed legal amendments denying benefits to individuals who indulge in “anti-social behaviour”. […]
Lithuania should adopt constitutional amendments to allow Rolandas Paksas, the impeached former president, to run for elected office, says Vytenis Andriukaitis, European commissioner for health and food safety and member of the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania. However, he is critical of a recent resolution passed by the Lithuanian parliament, advocating Paksas’ rehabilitation. […]
Almost 5,000 legislative bills have been registered at the Lithuanian parliament since it took oath in 2012. A third of them have been proposed by the ruling Social Democratic Party. The opposition says that the governing majority has usurped the legislative process and do not want to discuss their proposals, lzinios.lt reports. […]
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says the euro introduction, power interconnections with Poland and Sweden, and reforming the Labour Code are Lithuania’s three biggest achievements of 2015. He also reviews the country’s future plans for 2016 on TV programme Alfa Savaitė. […]
Daiva Gineikaitė, the chief of Lithuania’s National Land Service under the Ministry of Agriculture who is suspected of involvement in a drunk driving accident, is stepping down. […]
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. […]
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