Daiva Ulbinaitė on Monday returned to the Lithuanian President’s Office as the presidential spokeswoman after being acquitted of charges of leaking a state secret. She replaced Modestas Naudžius in the position. […]
MP Andrius Mazuronis, son of MEP Valentinas Mazuronis, has announced about his decision to leave the parliamentary group of the party Order and Justice. […]
Last month a peculiar thing happened at the European Parliament. Four men were observed placing books with the title Red Dalia in members’ pigeonholes. Nothing unusual, you say: pigeonholes are for putting missives in. But it wasn’t just any book, and the four men distributed it without permission. The eponymous Dalia in the book of 200-plus pages is none other than Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė, and the book alleges that she used to be involved with the KGB. […]
European Parliament President Martin Schulz will wait for the eurosceptic Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFDD) group to make its own decision on disciplinary measures against a member of its secretariat who is believed to have distributed books smearing Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė. […]
Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFDD), the eurosceptic political group in the European Parliament, has distanced itself from suggestions that it might have something to do with books smearing Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė that were distributed to all EP members last month. […]
The Government of Lithuania wants the country’s courts to have the opportunity to turn to the European Court of Human Rights for consultation while hearing cases that might involve human rights violations. […]
The European Parliament has decided to investigate who secretly distributed a book titled Red Dalia to box offices of all EP members. The book is an unflattering biography of Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė containing allegations of Soviet collaboration. […]
The Seimas Committee on National Security and Defence is going to convene on Wednesday to discuss preparations to combat terrorism. […]
More than a third of Lithuanian parliamentarians suggest setting up a parliamentary commission to investigate allegations about a secret US detention facility for suspected terrorists that operated in Lithuania a decade ago. […]
Soon the time will come when Russia will issue an official apology for Soviet occupation from the stand of the Lithuanian Seimas, according to Petras Vaitiekūnas, Lithuania’s former ambassador to Ukraine and one-time foreign minister. He said this at a solemn parliamentary sitting on Tuesday to mark the 24th anniversary of the 13 January 1991 events. […]
In 2015, Lithuania’s ruling coalition is planning reforms in the areas of science and education as well as healthcare areas, according to Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with Minister of Social Security and Labour Algimanta Pabedinskienė on Monday and criticised her for stagnating reforms in children’s care homes and for the lack of transparency in the ministry’s use of funds. […]
Daiva Ulbinaitė, former advisor to President Dalia Grybauskaitė, did not abuse civil service and did not reveal state secrets, a court ruled on Monday. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius will take his annual vacations between 15 and 22 January. […]
The Ethnic Minority Law would help ensure rights for ethnic minorities in Lithuania, and the parliament should reopen the bill in its spring session, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says. […]
The Lithuania Tribune spoke with Professor Fernand de Varennes, a world-famous expert in human rights law. The interview was conducted by Liudvikas Jakavičius-Grimalauskas, and presented in cooperation with the European Foundation of Human Rights (EFHR). […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says she sees no need to resume parliamentary investigation into an alleged CIA prison in Lithuania, but calls on law enforcement agencies to continue their separate probe. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė stated on Wednesday that a dialogue with Russia is impossible until Moscow “is engaged in aggression” and supports “terrorists in eastern Ukraine“. […]
The Lithuanian prime minister‘s team has been expanded by creating the position of adviser on equality issues. Auksė Kontrimienė has been appointed to the new position. […]
Minister of the Interior Saulius Skvernelis has ordered a review of public procurement tenders for IT services in the ministry’s institutions over the last five years. The minister says that the fact that the same company won disproportionally many contracts raises suspicion about preferential treatment. […]
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