The popularity of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU) and its leaders is on the decline, according to the latest opinion poll conducted by Vilmorus and published by the daily Lietuvos Rytas on Saturday. […]
Lithuania’s Constitutional Court on Friday approved for consideration the case of MP Kestutis Pukas charged with sexual harassment. […]
The opposition Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats proposes that the parliament temporarily suspend debates on a controversial package aimed at sharply reducing access to alcohol until political groups in the Seimas reach consensus and muster enough votes to pass the legislation. […]
Mindaugas Bastys, a member of the Social Democratic political group in the Seimas, continues to challenge prosecutors’ decision not to open a criminal case against the State Security Department‘s officials and prepares to turn to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg. […]
Lithuanian Prosecutor General Evaldas Pašilis in early May provided the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs with information about an investigation in which the parliament is asked to lift the legal immunity of MEP Rolandas Paksas, a former Lithuanian president who was impeached in 2004. […]
Lithuania’s Special Investigation Service (STT) has handed to court a criminal case of corruption at the Klaipėda state-run seaport and Latvijas Tilti company. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis saw his public approval rating drop to 60 percent in April, down by six percentage points from a month ago, according to a survey conducted by the pollster RAIT for BNS. […]
Lithuania has made significant progress over the past two years in its efforts to become a member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and if it keeps the pace, it could join the club of economically strong, transparent and innovative nations in 2018, OECD Deputy Secretary General Douglas Frantz said in an interview with BNS. […]
The Special Investigation Service (STT) will be able to gain access to financial data of banks and other legal entities without obtaining a court warrant. […]
If Lithuania introduces a complete ban on alcohol advertising, it will hardly be able to enforce it on foreign-registered Internet sites, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Thursday. […]
Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis is holding a board meeting for what he said was influence of business groups on the country’s political system. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė says she will support the proposals to allow non-Lithuanian characters of the Latin alphabet on the main page of personal documents, if a green light is received form the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis told his Polish counterpart, Beata Szydło, on Monday that national minorities in Lithuania would not be discriminated against over the spelling of their names in documents. […]
One pre-trial investigation into suspected bribery of voters was opened during the mayoral elections in the Šakiai and Jonava districts and MP election in the Panevėžys-Anykščiai constituency this past weekend, however, evidence shows that the incident should not revise the election results, says Zenonas Vaigauskas, chairman of the Lithuanian Central Electoral Commission. […]
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis announced on Monday he had decided not to move to a residence in the de luxe suburb of Turniškės and would stay in his current family home in the village of Smigliai in the Vilnius district. […]
The Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union, which triumphed in the last parliamentary elections, remains the country’s most popular political force, however, its ratings declined by a third since the beginning of the year, while the ruling Social Democrats and the opposition conservatives climbed on the popularity ladder, shows a poll published on delfi.lt news portal on Monday. […]
Gintautas Paluckas, the newly-elected leader of the Social Democratic Party (LSDP), says that the party’s political group in the Seimas will support the principles for a reform of universities proposed by a prime minister-appointed working group. […]
The impeachment commission for Mindaugas Bastys, a member of the parliament’s Social Democratic Party group, will ask for extension its work until June 1. […]
Deividas Matulionis, Lithuania’s former ambassador to Germany, on Friday took post as foreign policy adviser to Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis. […]
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