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. […]
Pranciškus Šliužas, a Lithuanian activist who was part of the group behind this year’s referendum on banning land sale to foreigners, is planning to found a new political party Gimtasis Kraštas (Native Land). […]
Former Lithuanian Minister of the Interior Dailis Alfonsas Barakauskas was on Friday questioned as a special witness in an ongoing investigation into alleged public procurement-related corruption involving ministry staff. […]
Finding a new interior minister will take a few days, Rolandas Paksas, leader of Lithuania’s Order and Justice party, says, adding that a candidate could be nominated as early as next week. […]
Lithuania’s Minister of the Interior Dailis Alfonsas Barakauskas submitted his letter of resignation on Thursday. The minister says he’s stepping down due to deteriorating health. […]
The Council of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania is nominating its leader Valdemar Tomaševski to run for the post of Vilnius mayor, the politician himself confirmed to BNS on Wednesday. […]
The Seimas political groups of the Homeland Union and the Liberal Movement have initiated an interpellation to Interior Minister Dailis Alfonsas Barakauskas and started collecting MPs’ signatures. […]
Head of the Public Procurement Office (VPT) Žydrūnas Plytnikas, whose actions regarding a dispute of a private nature were influenced by an interest conflict, is leaving his post. His letter of resignation will be accepted both by the prime minister and the president. […]
The Order and Justice party might leave the ruling coalition amid an ongoing corruption scandal at the Ministry of the Interior, and one could not discount the possibility that Lithuania might have a minority government, says Gediminas Kirkilas, vice-chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania, the largest party in the ruling block. […]
Deputy Health Minister Gediminas Černiauskas has decided to resign from his post. […]
Several current and former advisers to Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė were questioned at Vilnius City District Court as part of the hearing of a criminal case against ex-presidential spokeswoman Daiva Ulbinaitė who is charged with leaking classified information and abuse of office. […]
Lithuanian deputy minister of healthcare Gediminas Černiauskas has been named in two stories of alleged corruption: for making decisions favouring a company he co-owns and for trying to secure a post for his party colleague. […]
If law enforcement agencies find that members of the Minister of the Interior Dailis Alfonsas Barakauskas‘ team breached laws, the minister will have to assume moral responsibility and resign, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said on Monday. […]
On Friday, the new Deputy Minister of Interior Paulius Beinaris (30), delegated by the Order and Justice party, submitted his letter of resignation which the minister accepted shortly. Beinaris says that he was forced to step down because of “hostile atmosphere”. […]
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has denied speculations that if Minister of the Interior Dailis Alfonsas Barakauskas resigns, his party, the Order and Justice, will leave the ruling coalition. […]
Lithuania’s ruling Order and Justice party intends to take to court the Special Investigation Service (STT) over the searches carried out at its Vilnius bureau. […]
The prosecutor in the so-called Ministry of the Interior case in Lithuania has decided not to demand the arrest of the suspects who subsequently received softer measures of suppression. […]
With 54 votes in favour, 3 against and 10 abstentions, Lithuania’s parliament approved draft amendments to the preamble to the Law on Political Parties, implementing the requirement laid down in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to guarantee citizens of the union who are not nationals of that state the right to stand as candidates in municipal elections and in elections to the European Parliament, the Seimas’ press service reports. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė has refused to comment on the suitability of Dailis Alfonsas Barakauskas to continue as interior minister. Meanwhile Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has asked the minister to stay on until investigation into corruption at the ministry is concluded. […]
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