Lithuania will accept 85 refugees from third countries, says Vice-Minister of the Interior Elvinas Jankevičius. EU interior minister are also scheduled to hold talks on the relocation of migrants from Greece and Italy on July 20. […]
As the European Union launches talks on refugee distribution, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says accepting several hundred refugees is not only a challenge but also an opportunity to solve the problem of short workforce supply. […]
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says that Lithuania is not seeking particular quotas or figures as regards the migrant issue, however, it wants the criteria according to which refugees are distributed among the member-states to be transparent and correspondent to the country’s actual possibilities of taking in people. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius is taking his annual leave on 7-24 July, the Government of Lithuania has informed. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
Vidas Mikalauskas of the ruling Lithuanian Social Democratic Party won a parliamentary mandate in the single-mandate constituency of Varėna-Eišiškės on Sunday. […]
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. […]
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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