Politics
Websites of Lithuanian govt, ministries back online
Websites of the Lithuanian government, ministries and e-government went back online after being down for a few hours on Monday morning. […]
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Websites of Lithuanian govt, ministries down due to power failure
Websites of the Lithuanian government, ministries and e-government are offline on Monday due to faults in electricity supplies. […]
Politics
Seimas passes alcohol use restrictions
Following lengthy public discussions and parliamentary debates, the Seimas on Thursday significantly tightened regulation of alcohol sales, use and advertising, with some bans to take effect in early 2018 and others in early 2020. […]
Politics
Motion for Lithuanian MP Bastys impeachment is justified
A motion by members of the Seimas to open impeachment proceedings against Mindaugas Bastys, a member of the Social Democratic political group in the parliament, is justified, the impeachment commission found on Wednesday. […]
Politics
Ruling party’s leader, 2 other MPs breached statute
The Lithuanian parliament’s Commission for Ethics and Procedures found on Wednesday that three parliamentarians of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), including its chairman and health minister, had violated the Statute of the Seimas. […]
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President won’t veto tighter control on alcohol – Farmer’s leader
After an unannounced meeting with President Dalia Grybauskaitė, the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union’s leader Ramūnas Karbauskis said that the president would not veto the amendments to the Law on Alcohol Control aimed at tightening rules of trading. […]
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Seimas panel to vote on Bastys impeachment
The impeachment commission for Mindaugas Bastys, a member of the Lithuanian parliament’s Social Democratic Party group, should Wednesday vote on the decision whether there are grounds for initiating impeachment against the MP. […]
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MPs to turn to Constitutional Court over broader dual citizenship
Lithuanian parliamentarians intend to turn to the Constitutional Court for yet another interpretation of the possibility to expand the institute of dual citizenship. […]
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EP committee postpones discussion on Lithuanian MEP Paksas’ immunity
The European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs has postponed discussion on Lithuanian prosecutors’ request to lift the legal immunity of MEP Rolandas Paksas until its next meeting in late June. […]
Opinion
The Farmers succeeded: the Social Democrats did a flip
The coalition of Farmers and Greens Union and the Social Democrats did not seem very stable at first glance, their stability was questioned by PM Saulius Skvernelis. However, a vote on the amendments to the […]
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Putin, Stalin have same goal – Worldwide Congress of Crimean Tatars’ leader in Vilnius
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has the same plan for Crimean Tatars as the Soviet Union’s former dictator Stalin did, when he wanted to expel them from the peninsula, Refat Chubarov, president of the Worldwide Congress of Crimean Tatars and a member of Ukraine’s Supreme Rada, said in Vilnius on Monday. […]
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EP panel to decide on MEP Paksas’ immunity
The European Parliament’s (EP) Committee on Legal Affairs should Monday submit a conclusion on whether Lithuania’s MEP Rolandas Paksas should have his legal immunity revoked in the investigation of peddling influence. […]
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PM Skvernelis admits current govt coalition isn’t the best
Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, whose government has been in office for half a year, says that the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU) and the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) differ in their philosophies and approaches to many issues and admits that he never thought that the current coalition of the two parties was the best option. […]
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Palionis elected head of Lithuanian SocDems’ group in Seimas
Andrius Palionis, deputy chairman of the Seimas’ Budget and Finance Committee, has been elected as head of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party’s political group in the parliament, the party said. […]
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Reforms in Lithuania slow due to govt’s inexperience – president
The implementation of Lithuania’s key reforms in education, state-owned enterprises and labor relations is hampered by the government’s lack of experience, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Wednesday. […]
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Matjošaitytė tipped as Lithuania’s next election watchdog chief
Laura Matjošaitytė, currently deputy chairwoman of the Lithuanian Central Electoral Commission, is likely to be nominated as the next head of the election watchdog. […]
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Lithuanian language watchdog didn’t assess possibility of original name spelling by Poles
The Lithuanian language watchdog did not assess certain legal provisions, currently under debate in the Seimas, that would pave the way, among other things, for ethnic Poles who are Lithuanian citizens to have their names spelt in their identity documents with non-Lithuanian characters. […]
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MEP Guoga on why party democracy is overhauled
Representative democracy lives from its representatives. Ideally, wise and responsibly acting men and women, who have already achieved something in life and have now decided to give something back to society and patriotically serve their country and its people. This is the republican ideal that Seneca imagined and wrote about for their respective societies. Dwight D. Eisenhower famously said: “Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen, who would protect the rights and privileges of free men,” MEP Antanas Guoga. […]
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Govt coalition’s fate may hinge on vote on alcohol restrictions – Karbauskis
The fate of Lithuania’s ruling coalition may depend on how the Social Democrats vote on a package of measures aimed at curbing alcohol consumption, Ramūnas Karbauskis, the leader of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), the bigger party in the coalition, said on May 19. […]