The Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania on Monday stopped the hearing of the Labour Party‘s state grant case and decided to turn to the Constitutional Court. […]
The Order and Justice party has nominated Member of Parliament Petras Gražulis to run for Vilnius mayor‘s office. […]
Parliament Speaker Loreta Graužinienė has voiced opposition to proposals of granting the Lithuanian parliament the right to block referendum initiatives from ordinary citizens. […]
Vilnius Vice-Mayor Romas Adomavičius of the Social Democratic Party has told a court that he is not guilty of corruption, adding that the case against him is a provocation. […]
The Vilnius unit of the Labour Party has approved a list of candidates to run for the Vilnius City Council. Jonas Pinskus was nominated as the party’s candidate for the mayor of Vilnius. […]
The Lithuanian parliament sent next year’s draft budget bill back to the government for improvement after the first reading on Tuesday. […]
The Lithuanian parliament on Tuesday again rejected a candidate for equal opportunities ombudsperson. […]
The Department of National Minorities, an envisioned structure within the Lithuanian government, will give more decision-making powers to ethnic minorities, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says, adding that the government made a mistake when it dissolved the department which existed before 2010. […]
Lithuania’s residents see President Dalia Grybauskaitė and Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius as the best representatives of their interests, shows a poll published in Lietuvos Rytas daily on Saturday. […]
The ruling Lithuanian Social Democratic Party saw an increase in popularity over the past month and would collect nearly a fourth of the vote (24.5 percent) in parliamentary elections, if they were held next Sunday. […]
The Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania and the Russian Alliance will form a coalition for the upcoming local elections in Lithuania in 2015. […]
Deputy Minister of Health Erikas Mačiūnas is stepping down because of the difference of opinions between him and Minister of Health Rimantė Šalaševičiutė, says Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius. […]
Lithuania does not need a special law on the spelling of names and surnames as amendments to existing legislation are only needed, says Jūratė Pavilionytė, deputy chairperson of the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language. […]
Speaker of the Seimas Loreta Graužinienė agrees that the Lithuanian language should be protected, but says proposals to have foreign companies’ names translated into Lithuanian is an exaggeration. […]
Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius has come under criticism from some of his fellow party members for his hard position on Russia, the Lietuvos Rytas daily reports. […]
Editor-in-chief of Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, dissident Adam Michnik has been awarded the 2014 Freedom Prize, the Lithuanian parliament said on Tuesday. […]
According to Jovita Neliupšienė, Chief Advisor to the President on Foreign Policy, the fact that the court’s decision on bilingual street signs was met, and signs contradicting the Law on the State Language were removed, proves that Lithuanian municipalities respect and follow the law. […]
Lithuanian parliament’s opposition leader Andrius Kubilius of the conservatives is sceptical about the proposed referendum on dual citizenship, saying the Law on Citizenship should suffice to expand the possibility for Lithuanians to keep several citizenships. […]
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