Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Thursday that the country’s political leaders have a duty to act to prevent embezzlement of public funds after receiving information from law-enforcement bodies, but did not disclose how many ministers might not receive her approval after her inauguration for a second term of office. […]
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius placed his trust in Minister of Agriculture Vigilijus Jukna, of whom President Dalia Grybauskaitė had demanded responsibility for the transparency of his subordinates. […]
The number of members of the parliament in Lithuania could be reduced in response to the ongoing shrinking of the population, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says. […]
Attempts to put a tag “criminal” on the incumbent Lithuanian government amount to politicizing and application of double standards, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said on Thursday in response to President Dalia Grybauskaitė’s recent criticism of certain government representatives. […]
Vice-Minister of the Ministry of Economy Kęstutis Trečiokas, representing the ruling Order and Justice party, confirmed to have met with Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Wednesday to discuss his potential appointment as environment minister. […]
Lithuania’s Agriculture Minister Vigilijus Jukna says he would have considered resignation if he had heard any specific reproaches about non-transparency in the ministry’s activities but he had not been told any by President Dalia Grybauskaitė. […]
To take the lead and to dare to correct mistakes made by other ministries – these are the objectives set by President Dalia Grybauskaitė for Minister of Social Security and Labour Algimanta Pabedinskienė. The president received the minister on Tuesday. […]
Professor Dainius Žalimas of Vilnius University’s Faculty of Law, proposed by the Lithuanian president for president of the country’s Constitutional Court, pledges to solve the problem of lengthy case hearings. […]
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that making the so called blacklist of deputy ministers public has been a mistake, as it may impede further investigation. According to the head of the Cabinet, decisions on deputy minister will be made by ministers, their immediate superiors. […]
Lithuania’s army stopped developing and improving after funding was cut due to the recent recession, incoming Chief of Defence of Lithuania Major General Jonas Vytautas Žukas says. […]
The majority of people in Lithuania expressed their civic position by snubbing the land sale referendum, held on Sunday, which failed due to a record-low turnout, says Ramūnas Vilpišauskas, director of the Institute of International Relations and Political Science at Vilnius University. […]
The referendum on a ban of sale of agricultural land to foreigners and legal entities, held in Lithuania on Sunday, has failed due to a record-low turnout, according to figures from the country’s Central Electoral Commission. […]
The referendum on a ban of sale of agricultural land to foreigners and legal entities, held in Lithuania on Sunday, has failed due to bad timing, Julius Panka, the coordinator of the referendum’s initiative group, believes. […]
Only 6.44 percent of eligible voters have expressed their will at 1p.m. in the referendum on a proposed ban to sell agricultural land to foreigners and legal entities, being held in Lithuania on Sunday, which is several times lower that during the recent elections in May. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius believes the referendum on a ban of sale of agricultural land to foreigners in Lithuania, taking place on Sunday, will fail as less than a half of all voters will vote. […]
Retired Lieutenant Colonel Liudas Gumbinas, recently appointed commander of the Lithuanian Riflemen’ Union, has called on people in Lithuania to join the organization, hoping that the number of its members will rise by at least a third in three years. […]
The Lithuanian public sector next year will have to reduce its spending by 5 percent, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said on Wednesday. […]
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