“Why do politicians suddenly need to legalize dual citizenship? Because they finally saw that a demographic disaster has happened in Lithuania. On the other hand, they seek, as in Soviet times, to embelish population statistics, […]
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. […]
Communication with other parties is creating a new political tradition and a new political culture. The Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis told LRT radio when asked about possible tensions in the coalition. According to him, the […]
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. […]
The amendments on dual citizenship drafted by the opposition conservatives openly run counter to the Constitutional doctrine, says Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė. […]
Lithuania’s parliament is drafting a new initiative to allow dual citizenship to the citizens of Lithuania who acquire citizenship of a country of the European Union (EU) or NATO. […]
Lithuanian expat communities suggest solving the dilemma of dual citizenship by allowing persons to preserve their Lithuanian citizenship acquired by birth upon the request. […]
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. […]
Lithuania’s parliament will seek ways of allowing citizens living abroad to preserve their Lithuanian citizenship without referendum, says Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis. […]
Several hundred applications for Lithuanian citizenship have already been approved since the country amended the law last June to ease the rules for descendants of Jews who left Lithuania in the interwar period to apply for a Lithuanian passport. […]
Many emigrants hope to return to Lithuania and dual citizenship and tax-incentives for starting a business would encourage them to do so, Dalia Henke, chairwoman of the Lithuanian World Community, said on Friday. […]
In the discussion of the possibility for a part of Lithuanian citizens to have dual citizenship, citizens cannot be divided into reliable and unreliable, says Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis. […]
he Lithuanian parliament endorsed on Tuesday the programme of the new coalition government of the Peasant and Green Union and the Social Democratic Party. […]
The new Saulius Skvernelis government presented their official plan for the coming four years. The government programme is comprised of 132 pages which narrate the main Peasant and Greens – Social Democrat coalition tasks. News […]
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