The strike by teachers and pupils of ethnic minority schools is being fuelled by politicians of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (LLRA), a party drawing its electorate from Lithuania’s Polish-speaking population, the country’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says. […]
In the wake of a border guard operation that led to death of an 18-year-old suspect, Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė has suggested revising the legal acts regulating the use of service weapons in order to avoid future tragedies. […]
With a full year still remaining until the next Lithuanian parliamentary elections, incumbent Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius retains high approving rates. The majority of surveyed voters, 20.9 percent, believe he would be the best candidate for prime minister, a recent survey showed. […]
The Social Democratic Party of Lithuania (LSDP) remains the most popular party in the country. The latest survey has revealed that the Liberal Movement is the second most popular party. It and two other opposition parties garnered greater support in July. […]
Lithuania intends to resettle 70 persons from refugee camps in Turkey. “We have an embassy in Turkey, which will make it easier for us to handle the documents and communicate with the people, carry out selection and checks,” Interior Vice-Minister Elvinas Jankevičius told BNS in his explanation of the reasons behind the choice of the country. […]
Vilnius City Mayor Remigijus Šimašius has pledged to take measures to prevent opening of the Moscow House in the Lithuanian capital as long as an analogous project in Moscow, the Vilnius House, is being stalled. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is going to Latvia on Thursday to attend the official opening of the NATO Strategic Communications Center of Excellence (STRATCOM), her press service said. […]
The Government of Lithuania on Wednesday backed an initiative by a group of lawmakers to call a referendum on dual citizenship alongside general elections next year. But the Cabinet also suggests a different formulation for the question to be put for the vote. […]
A group of citizens plan to propose to the country’s parliament to adopt legal amendments allowing to write non-Lithuanian names of Lithuanian nationals on an additional passport page. […]
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that Lithuania will accept only those refugees who do not pose a threat to the national security and order in the country. […]
Lithuania’s Prosecutor General‘s Office on Friday lodged an appeal with the country’s Supreme Court against the acquittal of presidential spokeswoman Daiva Ulbinaitė in a state secret disclosure case. […]
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius wants pensions in Lithuania to be raised in early 2016, instead of the middle of the year. […]
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says Eligijus Masiulis, the leader of the Liberal Movement, made a populist decision to oppose efforts to salvage the Lithuanian Shipping Company‘s (LSC) and address prosecutors. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė supports an initiative to set up a special fund or launch a special program for promoting development of the country’s southeastern region to make use of the potential in the region densely populated by Lithuanian Poles. […]
Lithuania’s Ministry of Transport and Communications together with independent consultants, after analysing all legal and financial options, submitted a proposal to set up a new corporate group formed from companies of the transport sector, the ministry reports. […]
Lithuania’s Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis and Vice-Minister Elvinas Jankevičius visited the city of Jonava on Thursday to discuss accommodation and integration of refugees to be hosted by Lithuania. […]
Lithuania President Dalia Grybauskaitė has criticised Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis‘ initiative under which heads of institutions subordinate to the ministry were banned from meeting politicians without informing the minister first. […]
A fifth of the Lithuanian voters (20.1 percent) would vote for the ruling Social Democratic Party in parliamentary elections, a poll shows, while 12.9 percent would support the Liberal Movement. While the liberals suffered a 3.1-percent drop in ratings month-on-month, they still remain the second most popular party in Lithuania. […]
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