A plan to try and oust Lithuania‘s prime minister ahead of upcoming elections has been ready for quite a while, according to the Prime Minister himself, Algirdas Butkevičius. […]
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius will suggest that Druskininkai Mayor Ričardas Malinauskas, a fellow social democrat, suspend his membership in the party while investigators probe his suspected involvement in a shady construction project. However, Butkevičius does not believe that Malinauskas should resign from the mayor’s post. […]
Lithuania’s Social Democratic Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has filed a defamation suit against conservative member of parliament Agnė Bilotaitė. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė is to have a “serious conversation” with Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius about corruption suspicions that have plagued his cabinet over the last week. The meeting is scheduled for next week, after Butkevičius comes back from vacation. […]
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius is not planning to cut short his vacation in the Caribbean despite several of his cabinet ministers becoming embroiled in controversy. […]
The Special Investigation Service (STT) intends to interview Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius and Environment Minister Kęstutis Trečiokas as part of an investigation into construction in the territory of Druskininkai Vijūnėlė Manor, southern Lithuania. […]
Minister of Energy Rokas Masiulis says that a broad political consensus is needed in Lithuania on the issue of the Astravyets nuclear power plant under construction in Belarus. […]
Both the Lithuanian president and the prime minister said on Friday that Health Minister Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė of the Social Democrats should step down amid corruption suspicions. The minister said she would hand in a letter of resignation and wait for the prime minister’s decision. […]
Lithuania will not introduce progressive taxation because there are too few high-earners, according to the country’s social democrat Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius. […]
Consumers will not see a big drop in the price of their gas following a new deal between Lithuanian gas trading company Litgas and Norway‘s Statoil which will cut the wholesale liquefied natural gas price by more than a third and reduce the maintenance costs of the LNG terminal by 23%. […]
Even the €8 increase in the average pension will not help pensioners in Lithuania, who receive one of the most frugal pensions in Europe. President Dalia Grybauskaitė is encouraging lawmakers to index pensions, which would make them increase together with growing average wages in the nation, and the prime minister, Algirdas Butkevičius, believes that indexing pensions would make them grow by up to 6 or 7 percent. […]
Lithuania’s gas company Litgas has concluded negotiations with Norway’s Statoil to review it’s five-year liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply contract, substantially cutting maintenance costs of Lithuania’s LNG terminal and the price for gas consumers, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says. […]
Litgas, the gas trading arm of the state-owned energy group Lietuvos Energija, will sign a renewed liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply contract with Norway‘s Statoil on Monday. […]
The Lithuanian state could be paying up to double average market prices for food it procures under a programme to support those living in poverty, according to an investigation by 15min.lt. […]
Social Democrat MP Birutė Vėsaitė has shocked the prime minister and her party colleagues by posting comments on Facebook supporting Algirdas Paleckis and saying that the Left needed him, after he announced he was leaving the Socialist People‘s Front. […]
Lithuania pensions could rise by 6% to 7% in the coming year driven by their indexing to wage growth in the economy which is currently running at 5.5%, according to Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius. […]
Lithuania will manage to successfully integrate refugees from the Middle East, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius believes, but said that the process will present many challenges. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that an agreement of an agreement with the Norwegian gas company Statoil have already been agreed in order to review the price of liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplied via the LNG Terminal. The head of Government said that the agreement is expected to be signed soon. […]
On Wednesday the Lithuanian Government approved a proposal to eliminate annuities for presidents’ widows or widowers. Based on the proposed rules, the spouse of a president would instead receive a state pension. […]
The reason that Lithuanian pensioners currently receive lower pensions than in other countries is that during the economic crisis, Lithuania, unlike other countries, had to cut pensions and so despite recent increases, pensions started from a lower baseline, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius told LRT Radijas. […]
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