Member of Parliament Remigijus Šimašius (the Liberal Movement) has addressed the Prosecutor General‘s Office over the loan issued by municipal enterprise responsible for district heating Vilniaus Šilumos Tinklai to airline Air Lituanica. The MP has asked to investigate whether the loan was issued lawfully and if it does not violate the public interest. […]
Lithuania has to prepare for holding a referendum on dual citizenship, there is no other way, Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužinienė said in her congratulatory message to the commission of the parliament and the Lithuanian World Community. […]
Lawyers at the Lithuanian Seimas say that President Dalia Grybauskaitė‘s amendments on dual citizenship for people with exceptional merits to the country may run counter to the Constitution. […]
Lithuania’s former police chief Saulius Skvernelis, 44, was sworn at parliament as the country’s new interior minister on Tuesday. […]
At its plenary sitting on Monday, the Seimas of Lithuania adopted the legislation implementing the European Union‘s Fiscal Compact treaty signed in 2012. […]
Mykolas Majauskas will be running for mayor of Vilnius after receiving the nomination from the conservative Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Monday appointed Linas Pernavas as chief of the country’s police. He so far served as chief police commissioner for Kaunas County. […]
New Minister of the Interior Saulius Skvernelis has criticised the employment of former deputy minister Algimantas Juocevičius in Regitra, vehicle registration and driving licence issuing institution under the Ministry of the Interior. […]
Around 41 percent of Lithuanians were more or less positive about the government’s performance in October, up 4.6 percentage points from September, the latest poll by the public opinion and market researcher Spinter Tyrimai has shown. […]
The Labour Party presented its candidates for 2015 municipal and mayoral elections at the 20th congress on Saturday. […]
Renatas Požėla has been proposed for the position of Lithuania’s police chief. He has so far served as the country’s deputy chief of police. […]
The Seimas of Lithuania on Thursday allowed EU citizens who permanently reside in Lithuania to become members of political parties. However, non-Lithuanian citizens will not be allowed to found political parties. […]
The Board of the Order and Justice party decided to nominate TV producer Rolandas Skaisgirys to run for the Vilnius mayor seat. […]
Appointing a statutory officer as interior minister is an unusual decision, since in democratic countries, the so-called “repressive ministries” are mainly headed by politicians, says Lithuanian political scientist Algis Krupavičius. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Wednesday appointed Police Commissioner General Saulius Skvernelis as interior minister. […]
Leader of the Order and Justice party Rolandas Paksas has proposed Police Commissioner General Saulius Skvernelis as minister of the interior. […]
Parliament Speaker Loreta Graužinienė says that the new Director of the Public Procurement Office (VPT) Diana Vilytė is expected to act responsibly. […]
Speaker of the Seimas of Lithuania Loreta Graužinienė has welcomed the president’s proposal to expand provisions for dual citizenship and underlined that the country’s Constitution needs to be amended to stay in touch with the times. […]
Chair of the Seimas Committee on National Security and Defence, Artūras Paulauskas, believes that amendments to the Law on Citizenship proposed by the president will not solve any problems. According to him, a referendum should be held on dual citizenship for the nation to decide the issue, and there is no other way round this. […]
After news broke that basketball player Žydrūnas Ilgauskas would lose his Lithuanian passport after accepting US citizenship, Lithuanian leaders are eager to avoid potential embarrassment. […]
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