Savivaldos rinkimai
Politics

More responsibility and problems for first shift of directly-elected mayors in Lithuania

Directly-elected mayors will have the same powers they have now but they will also have a double amount of responsibility on their shoulders, Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Loreta Graužinienė says. Meanwhile opposition leader Andrius Kubilius warns that the new system of local elections will spell more problems for the new mayors who will have to closely cooperate with city councils. […]

Viktor Uspaskich
Politics

EP panel discusses Lithuanian MEP Uspaskich’s immunity

The European Parliament‘s Committee on Legal Affairs on Tuesday discussed the request from Lithuanian prosecutors to lift the legal immunity of Lithuanian MEP Viktor Uspaskich, the founder of the Labour Party, to put him on trial for fraud and insulting court. […]

Algirdas Butkevičius
Politics

Lithuanian government says no tax changes in near future

Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has assured that the government of Lithuania is not planning to propose any new tax laws in the nearest future. […]

Andrius Kubilius, Dalia Grybauskaitė and Algirdas Butkevičius
Politics

Lithuanian PM, ex-PM to be awarded on Restoration of State Day

Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė awarded the country’s former and incumbent prime ministers, foreign minister and former ambassador to Ukraine on the occasion of the Day of Restoration of State. […]