Edmundas Vaitekūnas, the chairman of the Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission (LRTK), who was delegated by the Labour Party to assume the post of the education and science minister, has refused to stand as a candidate, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius confirmed on Monday. The PM says that a new candidate has already been nominated. […]
The Social Democratic Party of Lithuania remains the most popular party in the country, and Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius and President Dalia Grybauskaitė have the highest popularity ratings, a survey showed on Saturday. […]
Minister of Transport and Communications Rimantas Sinkevičius has not rejected the possibility of resigning after the aircraft An-2 disaster. However, at first the minister said he would like to know more details and offered to wait for the causes of the disaster to be clarified. […]
Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas has apologised to families of the missing An-2 pilots for poorly coordinated search and rescue operation. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Thursday refused to comment on Russia‘s claim that it had detained a Lithuanian military intelligence officer. […]
The Seimas of Lithuania on Thursday backed amendments, drafted by President Dalia Grybauskaitė, on countering hostile propaganda, after 79 lawmakers voted in favour, four were against and 27 abstained. […]
A Latvian journalist has felt the wrath of the Lithuanian president after asking several questions that “have not been agreed upon”. The president insistently, and rather gracelessly, refused to answer questions about gay rights in Lithuania, a supermarket roof collapse in Riga and basketball. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has commented that the search and rescue operation launched in order find a missing An-2 airplane and its two pilots has revealed that Lithuanian institutions responsible for search and rescue missions fail to properly cooperate and coordinate among themselves. […]
The European Parliament on Tuesday stripped Lithuanian MEP Viktor Uspaskich of his legal immunity so he can stand trial for contempt of court in Lithuania. […]
The ruling Social Democratic Party remains the most popular party in Lithuania with 20.7 percent of respondents in a poll saying they would vote for the party if general elections were held soon. […]
A draft declaration has been registered in the Lithuanian Seimas, calling for the status of a head of state to be granted to Vytautas Landsbergis, the country’s first post-Soviet leader and former president of the Supreme Council-Reconstitutent Seimas. […]
In an interview with The Lithuania Tribune, the new Vilnius Mayor, Remigijus Šimašius, revealed his administration’s Open Data Policy could have legal consequences for the city’s previous government headed by Artūras Zuokas. […]
Signatory of the Lithuanian Act of Independence, influential political commentator and journalist Rimvydas Valatka will be consulting Lithuania’s Liberal Movement. […]
It has been just over two months since the Liberal Movement’s Remigijus Šimašius was voted in as Mayor of Vilnius. […]
During her meeting with Arūnas Dulkys, the new head of the National Audit Office, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė stressed the need to ensure transparency in the use of the state budget funds and the European Union’s (EU) funds, audits of public institutions, assessment of fiscal policy, and control of Lithuania’s budget policy. […]
With 70 votes in favour, none against and 3 abstentions, the Seimas has adopted amendments to Article 22 of the Consular Statute, the press service of the Seimas said. […]
At its plenary sitting, the Seimas of Lithuania marked the 95th anniversary of the Constituent Seimas on Friday. Loreta Graužinienė, the speaker of the Seimas, pointed out that the Constituent Seimas was the first representative of the Lithuanian nation that had its first democratic, universal and direct elections. […]
Lithuania’s Labour Party has submitted a new candidate to fill the vacant post of education minister. Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that he will reveal the candidate’s name once he receives a report on their reputation from the Special Investigation Service (STT). […]
Officers of the Special Investigation Service (STT) carried out a search and seizure at Lithuania’s Ministry of Environment on Wednesday. They took computers from the Public Information Project Management Division. […]
Andrius Kubilius, Leader of the Seimas Opposition, has proposed that Loreta Graužinienė, Speaker of the Seimas, re-evaluate whether Vydas Gedvilas may continue holding the position of First Deputy Speaker of the Seimas. […]
Copyright © 2026 | MH Magazine WordPress Theme by MH Themes