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. […]
Lithuania’s new administration will search for ways of keeping the half-empty schools in rural areas open, the ruling Peasant and Green Union’s candidate for prime minister Saulius Skvernelis said on 17 November. […]
With the President having presented Saulius Skvernelis’ candidacy for Prime Minister, BNS asked his predecessors, what the greatest challenges the new PM can expect are. Social Democrat Algirdas Butkevičius (2012-2016) – it is crucial to […]
With his party winning the Seimas elections, Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union (LPGU) Chairman Ramūnas Karbauskis is already thinking about the 2019 municipal elections and hopes to take more than half the municipality leader posts. […]
Saulius Skvernelis, the candidate to become Lithuania’s next prime minister, on Thursday named creating a family-friendly environment, speeding up adoption procedures, combating violence, achieving high living standards in regions and introducing universal military conscription as his priorities. […]
The Lithuanian Supreme Court on Thursday concluded hearings in the Labour Party’s fraudulent bookkeeping case and is expected to issue its ruling on Decemer 30.The court’s ruling will be final and not subject to appeal. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė Thursday nominate Saulius Skvernelis, the candidate of the Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU), the party that triumphed in last month’s general elections, to be the country’s next prime minister and asked the parliament to approve him. […]
Lithuania’s Agriculture Minister Virginija Baltraitienė and former chief veterinary officer Jonas Milius did not confuse their public and private interests during the dinner and hunting activity in the Panevėžys district past summer with a delegation of the Latvian Agriculture Ministry and Lithuanian businessmen Pranas Dailidė and Virginijus Kantauskas, the Chief Official Ethics Commission found on Wednesday. […]
“The past Seimas elections and the circumstances that have developed in the Lithuanian Social Democrat Party (LSDP) threaten not only the organisation, but the prospects of the entire Social Democrat idea. Cosmetic means won’t help […]
58 year old Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union candidate Viktoras Pranckietis has been elected as the new Seimas Speaker. His candidacy was supported by 93 members of Seimas. His opponent, Liberal Eugenijus Gentvilas received 36 votes. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė has signed a decree that proposes Saulius Skvernelis as a candidate to the post of Prime Minister. Only the blessing of Seimas is needed now. The President, in her typical fashion, has […]
Lithuania’s new parliament on November 15 changed its statute to set up a new Committee on Culture and to abolish the Committee on Information Society Development, with its functions to be transferred to the Committee on Economics. […]
Saulius Skvernelis who has made a successful career from a police officer to candidate for Lithuania’s prime minister has never lacked determination or ambition. His impulsive character has so far won him public support, however, can become a challenge in search of complex political compromise. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Tuesday proposed that the parliament should consider Saulius Skvernelis as candidate for prime minister. […]
Members of Seimas elected 4 deputies for Seimas Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis – two Peasant Greens, one Social Democrat and one Conservative. Algirdas Butkevičius was not among the elected. His candidacy was supported by 66 members of Seimas, with 53 voting against and 14 abstaining. In order for a politician to be elected to the post, the number of votes against and abstaining has to be less than the number of votes for. […]
Viktoras Pranckietis of the Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union was elected as Lithuania’s new parliamentary speaker on November 14. […]
Four parliamentary vice-speakers were elected in late hours of Monday in Lithuania, while Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius came some votes short of being elected to the post. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Monday signed a decree accepting the resignation of Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius‘ government and asking it to continue as a caretaker government until a new Cabinet is formed. […]
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