Lifting the An-2 airplane from its crash site at the bottom of the Baltic Sea is too expensive, says Lithuania’s Transport and Communication Minister Rimantas Sinkevičius, adding he would suggest at the government’s meeting on Tuesday to leave the airplane on the seafloor. […]
On Friday President Dalia Grybauskaitė signed amendments to the Gaming Law, which will give rise to the supervision of online gambling. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė has decided to nominate Kaunas regional court chairman Nerijus Meilutis for prosecutor general’s post. […]
Parliament Speaker Loreta Graužinienė has said she supports the initiative to hold a referendum on dual citizenship. […]
Political observers say there were not surprised by Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė‘s statements on foreign policy she made in her State of the National Address on Thursday. The president’s observations were realistic, but at times too abstract, they say. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė did not say much about the government’s work in her State of the Nation Address on Thursday as she hardly expects anything from it, the Seimas opposition says. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė made her annual State of the Nation address at the Lithuanian parliament, Seimas, on Thursday. In her speech, the president mostly focused on national defence, security challenges stemming from Russia‘s aggressive policies, as well as emigration of working-age population. Grybauskaitė also stressed the need to work more on addressing social issues, particularly in childcare institutions. […]
Lithuania’s Ministry of Justice has drafted a bill that, if passed, would introduce the institution of partnership into the country’s Civil Code. However, the bill spells out that the possibility to form partnerships would only apply to opposite-sex couples. According to Justice Minister Juozas Bernatonis, there is no need to legalize same-sex partnership because there are hardly any same-sex couples in Lithuania. […]
The Lithuanian Seimas Committee on Foreign Affairs has stated that solidarity to distribute refugees among European Union (EU) member states should be understood as a voluntary contribution based on a country’s capabilities. […]
Lithuania’s parliament will probably run out of time in the spring session to discuss the new social model involving a series of controversial proposals for more flexible labour relations, Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužinienė said on Wednesday. […]
The Seimas of Lithuania has positively evaluated the Government‘s activity report. The report was presented on Tuesday and mentioned successes like major projects, wage increase, reduction of gas and heating prices. […]
Thirty-three members of the opposition at the Lithuanian parliament, Seimas, have signed an interpellation against National Defence Minister Juozas Olekas. […]
On Tuesday, the new Education and Science Minister Audronė Pitrėnienė was sworn in at the Seimas of Lithuania. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė will deliver her State of the Nation Address in the Seimas on Thursday, evaluating the country’s internal and foreign policies. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says she’s proud of the fact that her foreign policy adviser Jovita Neliupšienė is on Russia‘s black list along “Europe’s key politicians” banned from enteringthe country. […]
The central Bank of Lithuania must curb the growth of charges applied by commercial banks on cash withdrawals, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has said, slamming banks’ efforts to levy charges on withdrawals of larger amounts of money from ATMs. […]
Lithuanian MEP Valentinas Mazuronis, formerly a member of the Order and Justice party, was elected as the leader of the Labour Party on Saturday. […]
Member of Vilnius City Municipality Council Mykolas Majauskas was elected Chairman of the Conference of Vilnius chapters of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD). He received 56 percent of the vote on Thursday. […]
The Lithuanian government on Friday approved in principle a draft social model, which is meant to liberalize labour relations and reorganize the system of social insurance. […]
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