Human rights defenders criticize proposed amendments, submitted by the Ministry of the Interior, which would authorize the VIP Protection Department to protect the authority of the president, parliament speaker and prime minister. […]
Vytautas Gapšys, a former vice-chairman of the Lithuanian Labor Party who is standing trial on corruption charges, says that the case is political. […]
The Lithuanian government has decided to draft amendments introducing criminal liability for illegally financing political parties. […]
The Lithuanian government decided on Wednesday to rename the Economy Ministry as the Ministry of Economics and Innovation and to change the name of the Education and Science Ministry to the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports. […]
A proposal to hold a dual citizenship referendum in Lithuania on two days with a gap of two weeks might run counter to the country’s Constitution and Lithuania might be held up to ridicule for holding such a vote, en expert in constitutional law says. […]
Lithuania’s government is considering introducing asset, income and interest declarations for journalists, and also barring politicians from becoming shareholders in media companies. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Tuesday political parties are acting “not nice and irresponsibly” by trying to play defense needs off against social needs. […]
All of Lithuania’s parliamentary political parties, except for the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania (LSDP), are likely to sign an agreement on the country’s defense policy for the next decade in September, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Tuesday. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis is meeting on Tuesday with parliamentary parties’ leaders to discuss the country’s defense policy for the next decade. […]
A lawyer representing Lithuania’s MG Baltic business group told a Vilnius court on Monday that Raimondas Kurlianskis, accused of bribery, never represented the company. […]
Eligijus Masiulis, a former leader of the Liberal Movement, pleaded not guilty to all charges in a major political corruption trial on Monday. […]
Raimondas Kurlianskis, a former vice-president of MG Baltic, one of Lithuania’s biggest business groups, told a Vilnius court on Monday that he had given 90,000 euros to Eligijus Masiulis, a former leader of the Liberal Movement, as a loan, not as a bribe. […]
Raimondas Kurlianskis, a former vice-president of MG Baltic, one of Lithuania’s biggest business groups, said that businesses had been “demonized” and “artificially criminalized” as he gave testimony in a major political corruption trial on Monday. […]
A special municipal impeachment commission on Friday suggested turning to court over the statements of Viačeslav Titov, a Russian Alliance councilor in the Lithuanian port of Klaipėda, on a Lithuanian partisan leader. […]
Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Viktoras Pranckietis has pledged to include bills on the spelling of non-Lithuanian names in personal documents using Latin-based characters in the parliament’s fall agenda. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that the state will protect the memory of Lithuanian partisans who fought against the Soviet occupation. […]
The Lithuanian parliament’s board refused to give the green light for two conservatives MPs, Rasa Juknevičienė and Audronius Ažubalis, to travel to Poland to make speeches at the Krynica Economic Forum in Poland. […]
The Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) is unlikely to support the government’s proposed agreement on the country’s defense policy for the next decade, but other parliamentary parties are inclined to back such a deal […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis did not breach the law when he failed to declare his wife’s Swedbank shares, the Chief Official Ethics Commission of Lithuania has ruled. […]
Lithuania’s government is offering parliamentary parties to sign an agreement on the country’s defense policy for the upcoming decade. […]
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