Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius intends to submit to the Lithuanian parliament amended laws on labour relations and social security as soon as possible. Therefore the Government will discuss the new social model for the last time on 8 June. […]
After an official inquiry, Lithuania’s Interior Ministry has decided that Kęstutis Jucevičius, the head of the Financial Crime Investigation Service (FNTT), may stay in his post and have access to classified information. […]
Audronė Pitrėnienė, chairwoman of the Seimas Committee on Education, Science and Culture, has been appointed education and science minister. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė welcomed the participants of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s conference in Vilnius. Grybauskaitė emphasised that only strong, dynamic and united European Union could meet people’s expectations and offset emerging challenges. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Tuesday met with Audronė Pitrėnienė, chairwoman of the Seimas Committee on Education, Science and Culture, who has been nominated for the post of education and science minister. […]
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. […]
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