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Matulionis takes post as Prime Minister’s foreign policy adviser
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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Interior Ministry cancels competition for new financial crimes agency chief
Lithuania’s Interior Ministry has called off the competition for chief of the Financial Crimes Investigation Service. Minister Eimutis Misiunas said the step was taken with green light from the government about the need to revise the scheme of appointment and in preparation for restructuring of the institution. […]
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OECD recommendations stop new Lithuanian lobbying law from being passed
The Lithuanian parliament on Thursday postponed the adoption of a new law on lobbying activities after the Foreign Ministry said that the version of the legislation proposed by the Seimas Committee on State Administration and Local Authorities was not in line with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s recommendations for transparency in lobbying, the head of the committee said. […]
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President discusses political issues with SocDems’ new leader
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė held an unannounced meeting with Gintautas Paluckas, the newly-elected leader of the Social Democratic Party, at the President’s Office on Wednesday. […]
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Seimas lacks political will to fight corruption – president
Lithuania’s new parliament of the 2016-2020 term also lacks will to fight corruption, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said after the parliament on Tuesday overruled her veto on internal deals in municipalities. This was the first presidential veto rejected by the new parliament. […]
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Seimas panel in favor of impeachment of MP Pūkas
he Lithuanian parliament’s ad hoc commission has proposed initiating impeachment proceedings against MP Kėstutis Pūkas charged with sexual harassment, the commission’s chairperson Dovilė Šakalienė of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union confirmed to BNS. […]
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MP Steponavičius leaving Liberal Movement but keeps MP mandate
MP Gintaras Steponavičius is withdrawing from the Lithuanian Liberal Movement and its political group after suspicions of abuse of powers, however, will keep his MP mandate. […]
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Liberal Movement urges Steponavičius to resign Seimas, party – secretary
Leadership of the Lithuanian Liberal Movement have urged Gintaras Steponavičius to resign from the parliament and the party after being faced with suspicions, Renaldas Vaisbrodas, the party’s executive secretary said. […]
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Political corruption suspicions brought against Lithuanian MP Steponavičius
Suspicions in case of political corruption have been brought against MP Gintaras Steponavičius of the Lithuanian Liberal Movement, the Special Investigation Service (STT) and the party’s secretariat confirmed to BNS. […]
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Government not giving up plans to move EnvironMin, AgriMin to Kaunas – PM
Saulius Skvernelis, prime minister delegated by the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union, says that the plans of moving the ministries of Environment and Agriculture to Kaunas had not been discarded, regardless of the party’s group voting against the proposal of the conservatives earlier on Thursday. […]
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Seimas rejects proposal to move environment, agriculture ministries to Kaunas
The Lithuanian parliament on Thursday rejected a proposal to relocate the ministries for environment and agriculture from the capital of Vilnius to the second-biggest city of Kaunas. […]
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PM sees no reasons for ruling coalition to break up
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that he sees no reasons for the ruling coalition of the Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU) and the Social Democratic Party (LSDP) to break up. […]
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SocDems’ new leader says relations with LFGU improve
Gintautas Paluckas, the newly-elected leader of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP), said after Wednesday’s meeting with the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU) leaders that relations with the coalition partners had improved. […]
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MP Bastys sees prosecutors decision as politcal retribution
The decision taken by Lithuanian prosecutors not to open a probe against him shows the political retribution attempts in the parliament, says MP Mindaugas Bastys. […]
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Prosecutors refuse to open probe on MP Bastys
The Lithuanian Prosecutor General‘s Office told BNS on Wednesday it had refused opening a pre-trial investigation into MP Mindaugas Bastys‘ assistance to a foreign country to act against Lithuania. […]
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MP Karbauskis: Farmers will unanimously vote to strip MP Bastys of mandate
The Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union, the largest party in the country’s parliament, will unanimously vote to strip MP Mindaugas Bastys of the Social Democrats of his MP mandate, says LFGU leader and group elder Ramūnas Karbauskis. […]
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Paneriai Memorial holds 10th March of the Living
The traditional March of the Living will take place at the Paneriai Memorial in Vilnius on Wednesday to honor the memory of victims of the Holocaust. […]
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Seimas panel to decide on impeachment proceedings for MP Pūkas
The Lithuanian parliament’s commission plans to decide on Wednesday on proposing impeachment against MP Kęstutis Pūkas charged with sexual harassment. […]
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President gives no comment on Skvernelis-Paluckas “exchange of rhetoric”
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė has dismissed as “exchange of rhetoric” the public statements about coalition relations by the leaders of two leading parties, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis and the newly-elected chairman of the Social Democratic Party Gintautas Paluckas. […]
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SocDems won’t be ‘easy and obedient’ coalition partners – Paluckas
The Social Democrats will no longer be “easy, accessible and obedient partners who have no priorities of their own” in the ruling coalition, Gintautas Paluckas, the newly-elected leader of the Social Democratic Party (LSDP), said on Tuesday. […]