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Lithuanian deputy culture minister resigns
Minister of Culture Šarūnas Birutis on Thursday approved the resignation of deputy minister of culture Erika Furman. […]
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LLRA politicians to resign from government posts on 10 September
After the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (LLRA) party has decided to withdraw from the ruling coalition, the party’s representatives will leave their posts in parliament and the government on 10 September, the party has decided. […]
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President Grybauskaitė’s chief adviser on economy and social policy takes office
Chief Advisor to the President on Economy and Social Policy, Giedrė Kaminskaitė-Salters, took office on Monday. She has replaced Nerijus Udrėnas who advised President Dalia Grybauskaitė on economic matters over the previous five-year term of office, but now has returned to academic activities, according to Verslo Žinios (Busines News). […]
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Disinformation needs swift response – Lithuanian presidential adviser
Disinformation and any incitement to breach Lithuania’s sovereignty needs rapid response, Virginija Budienė, chief adviser to Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on internal policy issue, said on Friday, presenting amendments, drafted by the president, to the Law on Provision of Information to the Public. […]
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New deputy environment minister appointed in Lithuania
Algirdas Genevičius took office on Friday as Deputy Minister of Environment. He will oversee waste, pollution prevention, water and the European Union support administration areas. […]
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Lithuanian president proposes fines for propagation of war
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė suggests a provision that at least 90 percent of the television programmes rebroadcast in Lithuania should be in the official languages of the European Union, adding that fines should be imposed for instigation of war and infringement upon independence. […]
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LLRA considered dismissed energy minister for mayoral candidate
Valdemar Tomaševski, the leader of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (LLRA), says he has so far failed to persuade Jaroslav Neverovič, who was sacked from the post of energy minister earlier this week, into running for Vilnius mayor. […]
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Lithuania’s Labour Party to choose among five candidates for energy minister
The Labour Party will choose a nominee for the position of energy minister from five candidates, says Speaker of the Seimas, chairwoman of the Labour Party Loreta Graužinienė. […]
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Lithuania’s dismissed energy minister says he was forced into appointing controversial deputy
Jaroslav Neverovič, who has been dismissed as energy minister this week, says he made unsuccessful attempts to persuade leadership of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (LLRA) to refrain from appointing the controversial Renata Cytacka as deputy minister. […]
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Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania party quits ruling coalition
After the meeting of the Coalition political council, the leader of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (LLRA) Valdemar Tomaševski announced that the party is withdrawing from the government. Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said that three parties remain in the Coalition, whereas, based on quotas, the energy ministers position will go to the Labour Party. […]
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Lithuania’s Transport Ministry is repeating errors of previous year, auditors say
The National Audit Office has completed a financial (regularity) audit of the Ministry of Transport and Communications for the year 2013, the National Audit Office reports. […]
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Lithuanian president urges government to boost defence and tame populism
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Tuesday urged the government to boost defence spending in the face of Russian threats and tame financial populism in the run-up to elections to local governments. […]
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Energy Ministry to go to Labour Party after LLRA’s withdrawal from government
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that after the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (LLRA) party leaves the ruling coalition, the position of energy minister will be taken by the Labour Party. […]
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Why can Valdemar Tomaševski do as he likes?
It seems that it’s not only Algirdas Butkevičius’s patience that Valdemar Tomaševski has exhausted. […]
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Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania party to be kicked out of government
The Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (LLRA), a Polish party that has been part of Lithuania’s ruling coalition, will not get any positions in the government, Social Democratic Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said on Monday. […]
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Lithuanian culture minister: National minority law will depend on coalition line-up
If the task force set up by the prime minister fails to find a compromise on the draft National Minority Law prepared by the Culture Ministry, Lithuanian Culture Minister Šarūnas Birutis says its fate will depend on discussions on the line-up of the ruling coalition and the participation of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (LLRA) party in the bloc. […]
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Lithuanian Order and Justice party 290,000 euros in debt after EP elections
Lithuania’s Order and Justice party, which has won two mandates in the European Parliament, has been left with a debt of nearly 1 million litas (EUR 289,000), shows a financial report submitted to the Central Electoral Commission. […]
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Opposition MP says government action plan of little use to Lithuanian farming industry
MP Kazys Starkevičius of the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD), shadow agriculture minister, says that the action plan for 2014-2015, prepared by the Ministry of Economy and approved by the Government, which seeks to reduce losses of Lithuanian companies due to Russian trade sanctions, provides little hope for farmers, processors and carriers. […]
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Prime minister says no merger of Economy and Energy Ministries
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius reassured that there are no plans to merge the Ministry of Economy and the Ministry of Energy this year. […]
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Lithuanian Labour Party wants to nominate energy minister
Parliament Speaker Loreta Graužinienė says that the Labour Party could nominate new energy minister, but this will only be discussed next week at the political council of the Coalition. […]