The Lithuanian parliament’s acting commission for scrutiny of the national broadcaster‘s operations decided at its first meeting on Thursday to turn to 14 institutions for information about LRT, asking the government to earmark money and call a tender for LRT’s external audit. […]
With the Lithuanian parliament set to launch its scrutiny of LRT, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that it is important not only to dispel existing doubts, but also to ensure that no doubts about the public broadcaster’s activities arise in the future. […]
The European Commission has warned Lithuania that it may take it to court over restrictions to citizens of other EU member states to join political parties. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis is confident that the country’s special services will not interfere with “economic processes” at Orlen Lietuva, Achema and Telia Lietuva after these services have been allowed to vet large deals by the three privately-owned companies. […]
Lithuania’s regulation that sets a ceiling on the amount of maternity/paternity pay does not run counter to the Constitution, the Constitutional Court ruled on Wednesday. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has signed into law a bill that opens the way for authorities to vet large deals by three privately-owned companies — Orlen Lietuva, Achema and Telia Lietuva — and to block deals that are deemed a threat to national security. […]
The Lithuanian parliament’s National Security and Defence Committee on Wednesday heard information from the Special Investigation Service (STT) about possibly unlawful influence of businesses and interest groups upon political processes, however, the committee’s chairman Vytautas Bakas refused to elaborate, saying the report was classified. […]
Lithuania’s Justice Ministry has drafted a bill that would give hope to persons serving life sentences to walk out of prison, Lietuvos Rytas daily said. […]
The information submitted to Lithuanian parliamentarians may contain shortcomings, as the parliament was requesting too many documents within an excessively short period of time, says Žygintas Pečiulis, chairman of the council of the Lithuanian national broadcaster LRT. […]
Conservative members of a commission set up by the Lithuanian parliament to scrutinize the activities of the public broadcaster Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT) say that Ramūnas Karbauskis, chairman of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), is hindering the probe. […]
Ramūnas Karbauskis, chairman of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), says that a parliamentary scrutiny of the finances of the Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT) is “necessary and inevitable” because of the “chaotic” way in which the public broadcaster provided its answers to lawmakers’ inquiries. […]
A group of members of the European Parliament have expressed their concern over the Lithuanian parliament’s decision to set up a parliamentary commission to scrutinize the activities of the public broadcaster Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT). […]
Kęstutis Pūkas, who resigned as a member of the Lithuanian parliament just before a vote on his impeachment earlier this month, will be replaced by Ona Valiukevičiūtė, the next-in-line candidate on the Order and Justice party‘s list in the 2016 Seimas elections. […]
Asta Sungailienė, former head of various units at Swedish-owned SEB Lithuania, one of the country’s biggest banks. has been appointed as CEO of Lietuvos Paštas (Lithuanian Post) through a competitive selection process. […]
Economist Gitanas Nausėda took the lead on the list of potential candidates for president in the December poll of Spinter Tyrimai (Spinter Surveys), delfi.lt news portal said on Monday. […]
Lithuania’s Central Electoral Commission is handing down the mandate of Kęstutis Pūkas, the embattled MP who stepped down just before the impeachment vote, to former MP Ona Valiukevičiūtė. […]
Mindaugas Raguotis has stepped down from the post of director of the lrt.lt news portal that is undergoing restructuring. […]
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