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Lithuanian prime minister goes on holiday
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius is taking his annual leave on 7-24 July, the Government of Lithuania has informed. […]
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Lithuanian president vetoes amendments allowing political control of media
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Friday vetoed proposed amendments to the Law on the Provision of Information to the Public, which, in her opinion, would pave the way for the media’s control by political parties. […]
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Lithuanian foreign minister might run for parliament
Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius might run for parliament during the Seimas elections in 2016 and might be nominated by the now-ruling Social Democratic Party of Lithuania in the country’s second-largest city of Kaunas. […]
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Vilnius Liberals kick British member out for disrespectful Facebook post
Mark Adam Harold, a British citizen and member of the Vilnius Council’s Liberal Movement political group, has been kicked out of the group for a disrespectful Facebook post about Lithuania. […]
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Lithuanian PM still supports original name spelling in documents
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says he still supports the proposal to allow the original spelling of non-Lithuanian names using the Latin alphabet after the Seimas of Lithuania postponed the issue until its autumn session later this week. […]
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Lithuania might have to accept more than 250 refugees, PM says
Lithuania might have to accept more than 250 refugees in an effort to help ease the Mediterranean migrant crisis, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said on Wednesday. […]
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Lithuania moves closer to legalizing opposite-sex partnerships
The government of Lithuania on Wednesday backed the amendments, initiated by the Ministry of Justice, on legalizing heterosexual partnerships. The bill will now go to the parliament. […]
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Name spelling issue will be resolved, Lithuanian foreign minister assures
Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius has no doubt that the original name spelling issue, postponed by the Seimas of Lithuania earlier in the day, will eventually be resolved. He adds that the issue is, first of all, important for the country’s domestic, and not foreign policy. […]
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Lithuanian parliament wants top court stripped of right to rule on budget issues
The Lithuanian Seimas Committee on Budget and Finance is asking the country’s government to draft amendments to the Law on the Constitutional Court, which, if adopted, would strip the top court of the right to decide on budget and financial issues, the Lietuvos Rytas daily reports. […]
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Artificial insemination law making progress in Lithuanian government
The Lithuanian Government is leaning toward endorsing artificial insemination. The Government believes that the number of embryos to be frozen should not be limited and that not only married women should have the right to artificial insemination. […]
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Lithuanian opposition parties to snub national agreement on emigration
A national agreement on emigration, initiated by Lithuania’s ruling Order and Justice party, has failed to secure the support of the country’s key political parties. Major opposition parties have no plans of signing it, the Lietuvos Žinios daily reports. […]
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Lithuanian president: NATO reacts adequately to changing situation
NATO‘s decision to increase its Response Force capability to up to 40,000 troops and set up headquarters in six Eastern European countries shows that NATO is capable of responding adequately to the changing security situation and making swift decisions, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says. […]
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Lithuanian defence minister survives interpellation at parliament
Lithuanian National Defence Minister Juozas Olekas remains in place after the country’s parliament on Tuesday accepted his interpellation answers regarding the search and rescue operation for a plane that crashed in the Baltic Sea in the middle of May. […]
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Lithuanian ruling coalition backs loosening name spelling rules
The Lithuanian ruling coalition’s political council has backed plans to allow original name spelling in ID documents. The bill is due to be put on the parliament’s agenda later this week. […]
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Social democrat wins MP seat in Varėna, south Lithuania
Vidas Mikalauskas of the ruling Lithuanian Social Democratic Party won a parliamentary mandate in the single-mandate constituency of Varėna-Eišiškės on Sunday. […]
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Candidates spent EUR 6m on municipal election campaigns in Lithuania
The Central Electoral Commission (VRK) has announced that participants of the 2015 self-government election in Lithuania spent nearly EUR 6 million on political campaigning. Their income was over EUR 4.87 million, debts – EUR 1.2 million. […]
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Lithuanians have lest trust in parliament, commercial banks and courts
A survey commissioned by news agency ELTA and conducted on 23-31 May by pollster Baltijos Tyrimai has revealed that 85 percent of the polled trusted the Fire and Rescue Department, 73 percent – the Church and 64 percent – the President’s Office. […]
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Lithuanians most trust president and prime minister
A recent survey has revealed that Lithuanians still trust the most President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who has been re-elected for a second term of office, and Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius, who is also Chair of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party. The leader of the party Order and Justice MEP Rolandas Paksas is third most popular public figure. […]
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Lithuanian parliament to equip basement room for secret meetings
Premises for secret meetings in the basement of the Lithuanian parliament should be equipped by the end of this year, says Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužinienė. […]
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Lithuanian parliament completes investigation into An-2 airplane crash
The Seimas Committee on National Security and Defence has completed its inquiry into the An-2 airplane accident over the Baltic Sea. […]