Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has signed amendments to the Passport Law, allowing to record one’s ethnicity in the passport. Some opposition politicians had called to veto the amendments, saying they might create conditions for the incitement of discord. […]
Last Friday, the Office of Prosecutor received a request from former general forest manager Benjaminas Sakalauskas to launch a pre-trial investigation into alleged defamation. […]
The National Audit Office has completed a financial (regularity) audit of the Ministry of Health for the year 2013, says the Office in a statement. […]
Agnė Bilotaitė, conservative MP and chair of the Parliamentary Group For Corruption-Free Lithuania, has turned to Minister of Justice Juozas Bernatonis with a request to provide proposals to address the issue of dealing with corruption in the private sector. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė returned amendments to the Law on the Bank of Lithuania back to the Seimas for reconsideration and submitted a proposal which she says would ensure information security necessary for the stability of the financial system. […]
On Wednesday, the presidium of the Labour Party has decided on whom to delegate as deputy minister of foreign affairs, picking Mantvydas Bekešius for the post. […]
The director of the public opinion research company Vilmorus believes that Lithuania’s smooth changeover to the euro may increase the government’s popularity, daily Kauno Diena reported Wednesday. […]
Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Loreta Graužinienė is reluctant to endorse the initiative of Minister of Economy Evaldas Gustas to merge several business supervisory institutions. […]
Some of the decrees signed by the former Minister of Health Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis will be suspended, says new Minister of Health Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė. […]
The new Minister of Health Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė says that the government must not antagonize and set private and public healthcare one against the other, but rather it should establish a clear procedure for providing services in private healthcare institutions. […]
The parliamentary of group of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party has turned to the National Audit Office, asking to review the alleged harm inflicted by the previous conservative Government when liquidating the state-owned company Gamtinių Dujų Terminalas (Natural Gas Terminal). […]
Ministers of justice and agriculture have established an interinstitutional working group to renew and update laws governing the Real Estate Cadastre and the Real Estate Register. […]
A number of politicians are in control of news media outlets, both those in the ruling coalition and the opposition parties, according to a dataset from 2013 on news media ownership. […]
Prevention of structural unemployment and development of an inclusive labour market is essential in order to remove obstacles to Lithuania’s economic growth. This was emphasised by the Lithuanian Minister of Social Security and Labour Algimanta Pabedinskienė who presented the country’s experience at II International Forum on Public Employment held in Madrid (Spain) on 24-25 July, Ministry of Social Security and Labour informs. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė has signed a decree to return the Metropolitan Concession Law to the Seimas for re-consideration. […]
Lithuanian lawmakers are surprised over recent statements made by Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius, saying that Vilnius’ reservations about Italian candidate for the EU foreign policy chief were President Dalia Grybauskaitė’s personal opinion. […]
Saulius Girdauskas, Vladislovas Kondratovičius and Arijandas Šliupas – all the three Deputy Ministers of Transport and Communications – have been reappointed to their offices. […]
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says he will not give in to the pressure of MEP Valdemar Tomaševski, the leader of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (LLRA), over the reappointment of the former Deputy Minister of Energy Renata Cytacka. […]
The new Minister of Agriculture Virginija Baltraitienė intends to present the Labour Party, which has delegated her, with her deputies during the meeting of the presidium to take place on 30 July. The minister admits it is not easy to find people who have experience to make decisions and skills in particular fields and who would not belong to one business group. […]
The introduction of the euro in Lithuania will bring not only economic benefits, but also will help curb financial populism of politicians, says President Dalia Grybauskaitė. […]
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