High-quality higher education should continue to be available in Lithuania’s regions, but that does not necessarily mean keeping the existing inefficient higher education institutions intact, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Thursday. […]
Greta Kildišienė, a lawmaker of the ruling Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU), has made the headlines after it emerged that she was using a car owned by a company of Ramūnas Karbauskis, the party’s leader. […]
The Lithuanian Prosecutor General’s Office has asked the Seimas to lift the legal immunity of two lawmakers — Mantas Adomėnas of the conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) and Naglis Puteikis, a member of the Peasant and Green Union’s political group in the parliament — in separate defamation cases. […]
The Vilnius Regional Court has sent three summons to former Soviet leader Gorbachev asking him to testify as a witness in a mass trial related to the bloody events of January 13, 1991 in Vilnius. […]
Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuania’s first post-independence leader, and former President Valdas Adamkus were presented with the Freedom Prizes on Friday as the country marks the 26th anniversary of a bloody 1991 Soviet crackdown on its independence drive. […]
In a few years Lithuania will experience three elections over half a year – municipal council elections, presidential election and European Parliament elections. Political scientist Kęstutis Girnius notes that the presidential election will be the […]
Five members of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) have confirmed that they will run for the post of the conservative party’s leader in next month’ election. […]
Dainoras Bradauskas, head of the Lithuanian State Tax Inspectorate (VMI), is suspected of exerting illegal influence on financial inspections of the country’s largest business groups, MG Baltic and Vilniaus Prekyba (VP), carried out by the tax authority, sources said. […]
Ramūnas Karbauskis was re-elected as chairman of the Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU) at the ruling party’s congress last weekend. […]
The Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU), the party that triumphed in last October’s parliamentary elections, continues to gain in popularity, according to the latest opinion poll published by the Delfi news website on Monday. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that common grounds are still found with the new ruling majority, adding that the Peasants and Green Union does not only work hard to keep its election promises but is also capable of hearing criticism and other opinions. […]
Lithuania’s government intends to attach the Financial Crime Investigation Service to the State Tax Inspectorate, says Interior Minister Eimutis Misiūnas. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Wednesday submitted proposed amendments to the Penal Code, suggesting tighter punishments for large-scale tax evasion. […]
Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis believes that the Seimas will manage to reduce the number of its members. […]
The Lithuanian parliament’s Law Department is critical about the ruling Peasant and Green Union’s initiative to slash the number of parliamentarians from the current 141 to 101, saying that the decline in the population should not be the decisive argument, as MPs also represent interests of Lithuanian citizens living abroad. […]
With less than a week to go before a deadline, 12 candidates have been proposed for the post of chairman of the conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) and three of them, including the current leader of the country’s largest opposition party, say that are determined to fight to the finish. […]
BNS Lithuania news agency lists the most important 2017 projected events on the political and public arena in Lithuania. […]
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis sees the October parliamentary elections, which changed the country’s political map, as the most important 2016 event in the country, noting that the terrorist attacks in Europe were the most important worldwide. […]
Prosecutors on Wednesday launched a pre-trial investigation into last week’s sewer pipe accident in Vilnius, the Prosecutor General’s Office said. […]
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