Lithuania is likely to be faced with some harsh words from the court in Strasbourg in two weeks, having not enacted the court’s ruling over impeached president Rolandas Paksas‘ rights for seven years. Jurists believe […]
Conservative party patriarch Vytautas Landsbergis says that Tadas Langaitis, who relinquished his Seimas member mandate, “arrived uncleanly”. In V. Landsbergis’ opinion, after causing such harm, T. Langaitis cannot remain in the party. “Tadas Langaitis arrived […]
Russia greeted Lithuania with the centenarian February 16 by deploying Iskander rockets in Kaliningrad Oblast, which can also carry a nuclear payload. We found out about this on Monday, Rimvydas Valatka writes on LRT.lt. It […]
Žygintas Pečiulis, the head of the council of the Lithuanian national broadcaster LRT, told the parliamentary commission scrutinizing LRT finances whether members of the council understood numbers of the budgets they had approved. […]
Lithuanian Farmer and Greens Union (LVŽS) chairperson Ramūnas Karbauskis released depersonalised documents from the LRT council on the national broadcaster’s contracts in a Tuesday press conference. Journalist Edmundas Jakilaitis and LRT deputy director general Rimvydas […]
The Lithuanian parliament’s acting commission for scrutiny of the national broadcaster‘s operations decided at its first meeting on Thursday to turn to 14 institutions for information about LRT, asking the government to earmark money and call a tender for LRT’s external audit. […]
The Lithuanian State Tax Inspectorate, or VMI, has taken administrative action against producer and journalist Edmundas Jakilaitis following an inquiry by Agnė Širinskienė, a lawmaker of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU). […]
“The commission is simply a cover and certain members of Seimas simply dislike LRT content,” LRT director general Audrius Siaurusevičius said in a live Delfi conference. He assured he had heard already a year ago […]
The Seimas State Historical Memory Commission announced this week that it will seek a Seimas ruling that the Vytis should be placed in Lukiškių Square. Not only “Farmer” historian Arūnas Gumuliauskas stands behind this initiative, […]
Lithuania’s parliament on Thursday approved former health minister Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė as chairwoman of the parliamentary Social Affairs and Labour Committee, Agnė Širinskienė of the Farmers and Greens Union as the head of the Committee on Legal Affairs and another LFGU MP Asta Kubilienė as head of the Health Affairs Committee. […]
The Seimas Committee on Health Affairs (CHA) does not plan to make its decision on the ratification of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between the European Union and Canada in the near future, although Lithuanian diplomats expected the parliament to decide on this issue by the end of its last spring session. […]
Lithuania’s government will Wednesday discuss the possibility for persons living in cohabitation to regulate their relationship by contracts of joint operations. […]
Lawmakers of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU) propose to allow the use of medicines containing cannabis. […]
Voters are turning from the “Farmers” and beginning to seek new “messiahs”. This is a niche for Viktor Uspaskich and Antanas Guoga to appear or perhaps some other rising populist movement, states political scientist Vincentas […]
On Wednesday it surfaced that during agenda discussions at the Seimas Healthcare Commission, the committee chairwoman Agnė Širinskienė presented forged committee conclusions on one of the discussion points, claims a Conservative statement. Due to this, […]
The Lithuanian parliament’s Commission for Ethics and Procedures found on Wednesday that three parliamentarians of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), including its chairman and health minister, had violated the Statute of the Seimas. […]
The Parliament’s Special Investigation Commission is going to present an assessment if there are grounds to initiate impeachment process against Social Democrat Mindaugas Bastys, who is suspected to have non-transparent ties with Russian actors. As […]
Human rights expert Dovilė Šakalienė who was invited into Seimas by the Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union (LPGU) shared an open statement on her Facebook profile regarding amendments to the artificial insemination law. […]
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