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EBU warns Lithuania against linking LRT supervisors’ mandates to appointing bodies’ terms

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has warned that linking the mandates of public broadcasters’ supervisory bodies to the terms of office of the appointing authorities may increase political interference. […]

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Lithuania’s 2019 budget to help improve people’s quality of life, PM says

Lithuania’s budget for 2019 will be socially responsible and will help improve the quality of life for a large part of the population, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Tuesday. […]

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Nausėda, Skvernelis, Šimonytė top presidential candidate rating in Lithuania – survey

Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis has come in second in a rating of potential candidates for next year’s presidential election, and economist Gitanas Nausėda rating’s keeps going up, a new survey has revealed. […]

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M. Garbačiauskaitė-Budrienė on the Seimas Commission investigation: the conclusions to a certain extent are true, but the aspirations of parliamentarians are not related to transparency

The conclusions of the Seimas Commission scrutiny of the LRT activities are to a certain extent true, but the proposals on how to change the LRT management structure have nothing to do with the conclusions, says the LRT Director General Monika Garbačiauskaitė-Budrienė. Professor of Vilnius University Andrius Vaišnys maintains on the LRT RADIO – the conflict could easily be resolved in the discussion, lrt.lt writes. […]

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Concerned about its independence, Lithuanian public broadcaster turns to EBU

The director general of the Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT) has turned to the head of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), saying that the Lithuanian public broadcaster’s independence is under threat. […]