The Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union, the largest party in the country’s parliament, will unanimously vote to strip MP Mindaugas Bastys of the Social Democrats of his MP mandate, says LFGU leader and group elder Ramūnas Karbauskis. […]
Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius has proposed considering fewer requirements for the referendum on dual citizenship. […]
Politicians have been saying for years that the legalization of dual citizenship would become a proof that the state cares about its citizens, but from the talks for continued to progress there was not enough […]
After the restoration of independence in Lithuania, the citizens that left the country have acquired citizenship of another state – lost the Lithuanian citizenship. Is this a problem? If so – how to deal with […]
“South Africa is more Litvak than Lithuania itself,” Markas Zingeris, the Lithuanian playwright and novelist once remarked. And, as one of very few members of Lithuania’s Jewish community to remain in the country, he would know. The vast majority of Lithuanian Jews have found good reason to leave at one time or another in history, whether it was unrest in Europe between 1868 and 1914, or the economic hardship that characterised the period from Lithuania’s independence in 1918 until June 1940 when the Soviet army took control. It was during this time that thousands of Lithuanians came to South Africa in droves, in search of a more peaceful life. And it is here where many have remained. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Wednesday called on members of the Seimas to respect the Constitution during debates on dual citizenship. […]
Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis has expressed hope for the Constitutional Court to revise its doctrine and to allow broader dual citizenship possibilities by law rather than amendment of the country’s Organic Law. […]
Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Seimas, sees amendments to the Law on Citizenship as the only possible way of broadening dual citizenship and expects that the Constitutional Court will approve of the move. […]
Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis sees a proposed bill to broaden dual citizenship as the best way of solving problems faced by Lithuanian citizens abroad, but an advisor to President Dalia Grybauskaitė points out that the Constitutional Court has ruled that legal provisions on citizenship can only be changed through a referendum. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė says her decision on spelling of first and last names of Lithuanian citizens with Latin letters that do not exist in the Lithuanian alphabet will depend on the conclusion of the state language commission. […]
If we want to create a civil society and strong democracy we need to trust citizens and their good will and good thinking. Trusting our citizens is foreign to Lithuanian government. They are keen to […]
Lithuanian expat communities suggest solving the dilemma of dual citizenship by allowing persons to preserve their Lithuanian citizenship acquired by birth upon the request. […]
Regulations for the writing of foreign words have been a point of contention in Seimas for some two decades now. Not just the Poles, but also other minorities, have grievances due to it, as well […]
Lithuania’s Supreme Administrative Court on Tuesday instructed the migration authorities to issue a Lithuanian passport to Alexia Gorecki- Mickiewicz , great granddaughter of poet Adomas Mickevičius, with the original spelling of her first and last names on the main page of the passport. […]
The Supreme Administrative Court on Tuesday instructed migration authorities to include both the Lithuanian version and the original version of a Lithuanian citizen’s last name in a passport. […]
Impeachment proceedings may be opened against persons holding certain posts for crimes committed before taking office, the Constitutional Court ruled on Friday. […]
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) recommends that Lithuania should allow people with dual citizenship to run for a seat in the parliament. […]
Dual citizenship can only be allowed by way of changing the Constitution, says Dainius Žalimas, chairman of the Lithuanian Constitutional Court, adding that amending the Citizenship Law will not be enough. […]
Ramūnas Karbauskis, chairman of the ruling Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU), says that lawmakers’ vacations must be formally regulated by law and that this issue will be addressed while reviewing the Seimas Statute. […]
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