Legalization of dual citizenship by way of referendum would allow Lithuanians living in the US to preserve their connections with Lithuania, and the fears of Russia may be dispelled by specifying countries subject to dual citizenship, says Lithuanian lawyer Marius Griskonis residing in New York. […]
Lithuania’s parliament on Thursday rejected a Constitutional amendment which stipulates extension of mandatory education age from the current 16 to 18. […]
Two bills opening the way for impeached and removed Lithuanian president Rolandas Paksas to run for parliament were to be presented for parliamentary deliberation on Thursday, but were removed from the agenda at the last minute. […]
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. […]
Lithuanian communities abroad view the parliament’s initiative to hold a referendum on dual citizenship in 2016 as “politicizing”, saying the odds are low for the referendum to be successful under the current requirements. […]
Member of the European Parliament Petras Auštrevičius has raised the idea of including Lithuania’s commitment to spend 2 percent of GDP on defence into the Constitution. […]
The Liberal Movement political group of the Lithuanian Seimas proposed holding a binding referendum on dual citizenship alongside general elections next October. […]
A hundred Lithuanian MPs have drafted Constitutional amendments that should pave the way for Rolandas Paksas, a member of the ruling Order and Justice party who has been impeached as president in 2004 and banned from running for public office since then, to run for parliament and president again. […]
Lithuanian law-enforcement officers on Thursday conducted searches in homes of several individuals in the framework of an investigation into operations of anti-Constitutional groups, the Police Department’s spokesman Ramūnas Matonis confirmed to BNS. […]
The Lithuanian Prosecutor General‘s Office has opened a pre-trial investigation into suspected crimes against Lithuania’s independence, territorial integrity and Constitutional order on a Facebook page, entitled The People’s Republic of Vilnius, which seemingly advocates separatism. […]
The Government of Lithuania wants the country’s courts to have the opportunity to turn to the European Court of Human Rights for consultation while hearing cases that might involve human rights violations. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė has commented on the new mayoral election procedures and said that the the self-government reform has not been completed and will require additional amendments to the current laws. […]
The Union of Lithuanian Psychologists has issued a statement, criticizing a ban on airing a social video ad about LGBT rights on television. Broadcasters have refused to air the video, saying it would violate a controversial minors protection law, but psychologists claim censorship of this kind is what does harm to children rather than messages on LGBT people. […]
A referendum on dual citizenship would be a “hopeless event”, says leader of the Lithuanian World Community Danguolė Navickienė. […]
At its plenary sitting on Monday, the Seimas of Lithuania adopted the legislation implementing the European Union‘s Fiscal Compact treaty signed in 2012. […]
Speaker of the Seimas of Lithuania Loreta Graužinienė has welcomed the president’s proposal to expand provisions for dual citizenship and underlined that the country’s Constitution needs to be amended to stay in touch with the times. […]
Chair of the Seimas Committee on National Security and Defence, Artūras Paulauskas, believes that amendments to the Law on Citizenship proposed by the president will not solve any problems. According to him, a referendum should be held on dual citizenship for the nation to decide the issue, and there is no other way round this. […]
The Lithuanian parliament recently decided to vote down amendments proposed by the president aimed at cracking down on hostile propaganda. It is disappointing, says the president’s chief legal adviser Rasa Svetikaitė, since the Constitution does not provide for freedom standards for disinformation and “brainwashing”. […]
Lithuania is holding the Constitution exam on Tuesday, with all citizens of Lithuanian being able to take it. […]
Over 30,000 Lithuanians will take the Constitution exam, which is held for the eighth time this year, the Justice Ministry said. […]
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