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 […]
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 […]
Reducing the requirements for a referendum on dual citizenship would violate Constitutional law and the constitutional principles of harmony, legal statehood and responsible governance, according to the Lithuanian parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs. […]
The Lithuanian parliament will debate on Thursday an amendment to the Constitution that would tie the legal definition of a family to marriage and parenthood. […]
Amid complaints from Lithuanian Jewish Community representatives and Litvaks living in Israel and South Africa, at least two Lithuanian parliamentary committees are planning to look into the reasons why citizenship restoration applications from Jews who left the country in the interwar period and their descendants are being rejected. […]
Existing Lithuanian laws allow for political manipulation using classified criminal intelligence reports, an investigation by the Lithuanian Seimas Committee on Legal Affairs has revealed. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė nominated judge Evaldas Pašilis for the post of prosecutor general. […]
Agnė Bilotaitė, member of the parliamentary group of the conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD), has asked Seimas Speaker Loreta Graužinienė to remove MP Julius Sabatauskas from the position as chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Legal Affairs. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė will consult the board of parliament about the candidate for prosecutor general once again next week. […]
Members of the Committee on Legal Affairs of the Lithuanian parliament (Seimas) have suggested to change the procedure of appointing prosecutor general. Under current regulation, the prosecutor general is appointed by the president, with parliament’s approval; a new bill suggests letting the government pick the candidate. […]
The Lithuanian Seimas‘ Committee on Legal Affairs will carry out a probe into the use of criminal intelligence information. […]
The Lithuanian Seimas’ Committee on Legal Affairs decided on Wednesday that the legalization of same-sex partnership would not contradict the Lithuanian Constitution, Stasys Šedbaras, the committee’s deputy chairman, says. […]
Minister of the Interior Saulius Skvernelis admits that when discussing the improvement of officers’ situation at the Cabinet of Ministers, his position is weakened by him not being a member of any party. […]
The European Parliament‘s Committee on Legal Affairs on Tuesday discussed the request from Lithuanian prosecutors to lift the legal immunity of Lithuanian MEP Viktor Uspaskich, the founder of the Labour Party, to put him on trial for fraud and insulting court. […]
Lithuania does not need a special law on the spelling of names and surnames as amendments to existing legislation are only needed, says Jūratė Pavilionytė, deputy chairperson of the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language. […]
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