The nomination of Social Democratic MP Julius Sabatauskas for justice minister cannot be proposed to the president, says Ramūnas Karbauskis, the leader of the ruling Peasant and Green Union. […]
The Lithuanian National Audit Office (NAO) says that it can work efficiently with a smaller staff, an idea that has met with approval from the new ruling majority who vow to carry out similar reforms in other public institutions. […]
Gabrielius Landsbergis, the leader of the opposition Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (conservatives), has suggested that election to the party’s leadership should be moved to an earlier date to give party members an opportunity to state their opinion about the outcome of the recent parliamentary elections. […]
Social Democrat Darius Petrošius has withdrawn his candidacy for Lithuania’s new justice minister. […]
Rokas Masiulis, a candidate to swap his post of energy minister for Lithuania’s minister of transport and communications, will have a lot of work – experts see restructuring of the state-run railway company Lietuvos Geležinkeliai as one of his major challenges where Masiulis would have to demonstrate skills as a manager and a maneuvering politician. […]
Most of the ministerial candidates named on 24 November by Prime Minister-designate Saulius Skvernelis lack political experience and are not closely linked to the Peasants and Greens, the party that has proposed them for the Cabinet posts, which may seriously hamper the new government’s work, leaders of parliamentary opposition parties said. […]
Linas Kukuraitis, the candidate for Lithuania’s social security and labor minister, is a supporter of home birth that is viewed controversially in Lithuania. All of his five children were born at home. […]
Liana Ruokytė-Jonsson proposed for Lithuania’s culture minister is a cultural diplomat and manager whose career includes roles of an actress, translator and even a singer in a profile drawn by culture figures familiar with her dossier and her personally. […]
Lithuania’s incoming government of Prime Minister-designate Saulius Skvernelis, whose line-up is dominated by ministers who are not members of any political party, may face risks due to instability, political scientists said. […]
Vilius Šapoka, the candidate to take the post of finance minister in Lithuania’s new government, is a pro-active and tactful person who tends to seek compromise and listens to all parties before making decisions and an economist with a wealth of experience in capital market supervision. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė will not comment on Prime Minister-designate Saulius Skvernelis‘ candidates to take ministerial posts in his Cabinet only after she has personally met with them, the president’s spokeswoman said on Thursday. […]
Raimundas Karoblis, the man who is set to become Lithuania’s next defense minister, has served as a diplomat for more than 20 years and, as the country’s permanent representative to the European Union in Brussels, coordinated Lithuania’s EU presidency three years ago. […]
Lithuania’s new parliament will have to do without an opposition leader, at least for now, as the conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats and the Liberal Movement, the biggest opposition parties, have failed to reach a deal on the post. […]
Lithuania’s Prime Minister-designate Saulius Skvernelis on Thursday announced his candidates for ministerial posts to the parliament. […]
Lithuania’s Prime Minister-designate Saulius Skvernelis expects to present his candidates for ministerial posts to the president and the general public by the end of this week. […]
The Lithuanian Labour Party does not consider merger with the ruling Social Democrats or other parties, says the party’s acting leader Vytautas Gapšys. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Tuesday appointed Saulius Skvernelis as the country’s new prime minister in line with the Constitution and in response to the approval of the newly-elected parliament. […]
The Lithuanian parliament on Tuesday approved Saulius Skvernelis, the candidate proposed by the Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU), as the country’s next prime minister. […]
Vilius Šapoka, a former director of the Financial Services and Markets Supervision Department at the central Bank of Lithuania, says that he is considering an offer to become the country’s next finance minister. […]
Lithuania may face additional international pressure over suspicions that Americans operated a secret prison for terror suspects near Vilnius a decade ago as prosecutors of the International Criminal Court (ICC) are considering launching a full-scale investigation into allegations that prisoners were tortured at the Central Intelligence Agency’s secret detention facilities. […]
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