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Lithuania’s year after Seimas elections: 5 reforms, 5 scandals, 5 challenges

October 9, 2017 BNS 0

Monday marks a year since the first round of Lithuania’s parliamentary elections. BNS provides an overview of the key decisions taken by the new parliament, as well as the scandals it faced and the challenges it will still have to cope with. […]

Visvaldas Matijošaitis, Gitanas Nausėda, Saulius Skvernelis

Lithuanians want Skvernelis, Nausėda, Matijošaitis for president

October 9, 2017 BNS 0

Lithuanian voters would cast most votes for Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, SEB bank president’s adviser Gitanas Nausėda and Kaunas Mayor Visvaldas Matijošaitis in presidential elections, shows an opinion poll published on delfi.lt news portal on Monday. […]

SocDems ethics guards recommend expulsion of 10 SocDem MPs

October 9, 2017 BNS 0

The Ethics and Procedures Commission of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party on Saturday proposed expelling ten of the party’s members who disobeyed the council’s decision to leave the ruling coalition with the Farmers and Greens Union. […]

Rebellious SocDem MPs ask party’s congress to annul council’s decision to withdraw from coalition

October 6, 2017 BNS 0

The Lithuanian Social Democratic Party’s (LSDP) MPs who have opted to continue cooperation with the ruling Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), want the party’s congress to annul the decision by the party’s council to withdraw from the coalition. […]

Agnė Širinskienė, Aurelijus Veryga, Ramūnas Karbauskis

Farmers move to allow medicines containing cannabis

October 5, 2017 BNS 0

Lawmakers of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU) propose to allow the use of medicines containing cannabis. […]

Critics say Lithuania should keep Migration Dept amid migration problems

October 4, 2017 BNS 0

After Lithuania’s Interior Minister Eimutis Misiūnas suggested scrapping the Migration Department, critics maintain that elimination of the institution and transfer of the function to the police could burden handling of the growing migration challenges. […]

Ramūnas Karbauskis, Chairperson of the Farmers and Greens Union

Farmers reports Lithuania’s fastest growth, Labor Party loses most members

October 4, 2017 BNS 0

Lithuania’s political parties lost 6,386 members since last October, although tendencies over the past few years were opposite, with party membership consistently growing, Lietuvos Žinios daily said on Wednesday. […]

President: Migration Department need restructuring, not scrapping

October 4, 2017 BNS 0

Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė has voiced disagreement with Interior Minister Eimutis Misiūnas‘ proposal to scrap the Migration Department. […]

PM willing to give SocMin post to SocDems if they appoint Paluckas

October 4, 2017 BNS 0

Lithuania’s Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says he would offer the post of social security and labor minister to the Social Democrats, if the party’s leader Gintautas Paluckas sought to fill it. […]

Interior minister proposes to close down Migration Department

October 3, 2017 BNS 0

Lithuanian Interior Minister Eimutis Misiūnas proposed on Tuesday to abolish the country’s Migration Department, which has been under criticism lately, and transfer its functions to the police. […]

SocDems want Social Security and Labor Ministry instead of Economy Ministry

October 3, 2017 BNS 0

Social Democratic lawmakers who have opted to stay in the ruling coalition despite their party’s decision to leave want the post of Social Security and Labor Ministry in exchange for the post of economy minister. […]

Ruling Farmer leaders expect SocDem MPs to stand firm on coalition

October 3, 2017 BNS 0

The Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union’s (LFGU) leaders say they are confident that Social Democratic lawmakers who have opted to stay in the ruling coalition despite their party’s decision to pull out will not backtrack in fear of being expelled from the party. […]