Holding hands
Politics

Government says joint activity agreement not suitable for regulating cohabitation

The Lithuanian government has criticized lawmakers’ proposal that relations between people living together be regulated by agreements on joint activity, rather than by partnership agreements. […]

Ramūnas Karbauskis
Politics

Farmers downplays absence of formal majority in Seimas

Leaders of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU) have downplayed the fact that the party has been left without a ruling majority in the parliament, saying the number of majority votes would be demonstrated during the upcoming adoption of the 2018 budget. […]

Visvaldas Matijošaitis
Politics

Kaunas mayor still 2nd among Lithuania’s most popular politicians

Kaunas Mayor Visvaldas Matijošaitis continues ranking second, after Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė, on the list of the country’s most popular politicians in October, shows a poll published in Lietuvos Rytas daily on Saturday. […]

Raimondas Baranauskas, Vladimiras Antonovas
Politics

Seimas passes amendments for in-absentia trial of ex-bankers

Lithuania’s parliament on 19 October passed amendments initiated by President Dalia Grybauskaitė that en able the country’s law-enforcement to put financial offenders who have fled the country on trial. […]