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Lithuanian parliament votes down sex change amendments
The Lithuanian parliament on Tuesday voted down a proposed package of amendments that would have legalized gender reassignment. […]
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Lithuanian parliament starts discussing contentious ethnic minority bill
On Tuesday, the Seimas of Lithuania started discussions on the proposed Law on Ethnic Minorities, a bill that has been a point of contention in Lithuanian politics. […]
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Lithuanian prime minister says blacklist vice-ministers will not be reinstated
Suspicious vice-ministers will not work in the renewed government, Lithuania’s Social Democratic Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says. […]
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LRT journalist to become Lithuanian president’s spokesman
TV journalist Modestas Naudžius is set to become Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė‘s spokesman after she will be inaugurated for a second term on Jul. 12, the vz.lt website reports on Tuesday. […]
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Two new MPs take oaths in the Seimas
On Tuesday two new members of parliament were sworn in at the Seimas. Members of Parliament Arminas Lydeka and Stasys Brundza took their oaths. The oaths were administered by Acting Chairman of the Constitutional Court Dainius Žalimas. […]
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Restrictions on Russia’s RTR Planeta TV channel end in Lithuania
Restrictions on Russian TV channel RTR Planeta ended in Lithuania on Tuesday. The Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission vows, however, to impose even tougher sanctions, if violations are repeated. […]
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Presidential adviser: Lithuania won from deputy ministers’ blacklist story
Virginija Būdienė, Senior Advisor to the President on Education, Science, Culture and Non-Governmental Organisations, has noted that there are no winners or losers in the deputy ministers’ “blacklist” story. She welcomed the resolve of the coalition to cleanse itself of deputy ministers whose reputations were short of impeccable. […]
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Lithuanian opposition leader proposes random checks to fight corruption in civil service
Leader of the Seimas Opposition, Andrius Kubilius, believes that an effective measure to ensure transparency in government might be testing civil servants’ resistance to corruption. […]
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Opposition leader: Ruling coalition showed unbelievable breakthrough of common sense
According to Andrius Kubilius, former prime minister and leader of the Seimas opposition, the ruling coalition showed unbelievable breakthrough of common sense last week when it decided to dismiss and not to reinstate deputy ministers mentioned in the Special Investigation Service (STT) report. […]
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Lithuanian MP proposes changes in Seimas’ Statute
MP Jurgis Razma proposes to establish in the Statute of the Seimas a possibility for MPs to make statements not in the end of the evening plenary session, “when nobody hears them, but in the end of the morning plenary session.” […]
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Voter turnout of failed referendum at 14.98%
On Thursday, the Central Electoral Commission (VRK) confirmed the official results of the failed referendum which took place on 29 June. […]
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Lithuania’s ruling coalition rejects presidential “threats”
Leaders of Lithuania’s ruling coalition on Thursday issued a statement rejecting President Dalia Grybauskaitė’s “expressed threats.” […]
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President says has a duty to prevent stealing of public funds
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. […]
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I trust Minister of Agriculture – Lithuanian PM
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. […]
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PM favours idea to cut number of Seimas’ members
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. […]
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Calling Government “criminal” is application of double standards – PM
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. […]
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Trečiokas confirms to have met with Lithuanian president
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. […]
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Minister of Agriculture says ready to resign, but wants to hear specific facts
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. […]
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President calls on Social Democrats to take lead
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. […]
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Proposed Constitutional Court president pledges to step up case hearing
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. […]