Politics

Lithuanian president proposes amendments to raise university enrolment criteria

President Dalia Grybauskaitė has proposed law amendments, requiring students to pass at least one national-level graduation exam in order to be accepted into a college or university. […]

Eurai
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Lithuanian MP suggests indexing minimum wage to average pay

New proposed amendments to the Labour Code of Lithuania suggest that the minimum monthly wage should not be lower than half of the previous year’s average wage, which is estimated and announced by Statistics Lithuania. […]

Politics

How will Lithuanians be electing their parliament?

The recent ruling by Lithuania’s Constitutional Court, saying that there is too much variation in size among the country’s voting districts, has caused some havoc with only a year left until the next general elections. A group of social democratic MPs have even suggested a radical change in Lithuania’s voting system, although other parties are rather sceptical about the proposal. […]

Dalia Grybauskaitė
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Parliament wants to undermine independence of prosecutor general, Lithuanian president says

On Friday Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with legal experts to discuss how to ensure transparent and effective work of the Prosecutor General‘s Office. Experts have noted that independence of the prosecutor general has been established in the Constitution. However, there have been repeated attempts to make the institution into a tool for politicians which is diminishing confidence in the state, the president believes. […]