Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania Archives - Page 11 of 11

Lithuanian PM sends proposal to sack energy minister

August 19, 2014 BNS 0

Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius on Tuesday sent an official letter to President Dalia Grybauskaitė in which he proposes that Energy Minister Jaroslav Neverovič be dismissed from his post. […]

Prime Minister Butkevičius says Polish party’s position in government is not on the line

July 18, 2014 ELTA EN 0

Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that the participation of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (LLRA) in the Coalition has not been questioned yet, vz.lt reports. […]

Bilingaul street signs provision removed from national minority bill

July 17, 2014 BNS 0

The Seimas of Lithuania on Thursday backed a proposal to remove the provision on bilingual street signs from the draft Law on National Minorities which is currently being debated by the lawmakers. […]

Lithuanian parliament puts off national minority bill and will consider name spelling in autumn

July 15, 2014 BNS 0

The draft Law on National Minorities, which the Lithuanian parliament intended to discuss on Tuesday, has been moved to Thursday, the last day of the spring session. […]

Lithuania’s Polish party supports its deputy minister under pressure to resign

July 15, 2014 ELTA EN 0

Rita Tamašunienė, leader of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (LLRA) parliamentary group, says the party supports Deputy Minister of Energy Renata Cytacka who has no intention to resign, even though all the other vice ministers have. […]

Prime Minister Butkevičius: No bilingual signs in Lithuania

July 15, 2014 BNS 0

Bilingual street signs will not be legalized in Lithuania during the adoption of the Law on National Minorities, Lithuania’s Social Democratic Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says. […]

Energy vice-minister’s Polish husband complains to EC over requirement to take Lithuanian language exam

July 14, 2014 BNS 0

Lithuanian Energy Vice-Minister Renata Cytacka’s husband Mariusz Cezary Cytacki, a Polish citizen who works for Vilnius District Municipality, has lodged a complaint with the European Commission over fines he has received for his refusal to take a Lithuanian-language exam. […]

Seimas Deputy Speaker Kirkilas on never-ending saga of Law on National Minorities

July 14, 2014 DELFI EN 0

TLT/DELFI spoke to Gedinimas Kirkilas, Vice Chairman of the Seimas and the Chairman of the Seimas Committee on European Affairs, about the national minorities issues in Lithuania; from the Law on National Minorities, the name spelling controversy to the Electoral Action of Poles, which is turning into a political party of all national minorities in Lithuania. […]

Lithuanian parliament starts discussing contentious ethnic minority bill

July 8, 2014 BNS 0

On Tuesday, the Seimas of Lithuania started discussions on the proposed Law on Ethnic Minorities, a bill that has been a point of contention in Lithuanian politics. […]

The fate of the coalition – in Skvernelis’ hands? A wavering Paluckas opened a window for Žemaitaitis

December 23, 2024 0

Not even a week after the swearing-in of the new Government, the fate of the ruling coalition is already hanging in the balance – Remigijus Žemaitaitis, the leader of Nemuno Aušra, has issued an ultimatum […]

After Nausėda meeting with Budrys, the opposition retorts to the candidate’s “cooling off “

November 22, 2024 0

Kęstutis Budrys, the President’s Senior Adviser, who has been nominated for the post of Minister of foreign affairs, does not say whether he first discussed the possibility of taking up the post with President Gitanas […]

“No need to mince words”: an assessment of what Trump’s victory means for Lithuania

November 6, 2024 0

“We can shout very loudly, but it won’t change the position of the American people,” says Professor Tomas Janeliūnas, as the winner of the United States of America’s (USA) presidential election, which will almost certainly […]

Another year in the sovereign history of Kazakhstan

October 24, 2024 0

Republic Day has been celebrated in Kazakhstan as the main national date since 2022, giving new life to the fundamental document on state sovereignty—the Declaration of October 25, 1990. The Republic is a modern form […]

In the assessment of NATO’s readiness for war with Russia, there is also a warning about the Baltic states: what is the Kremlin’s wild card?

October 23, 2024 0

According to Lrytas.lt, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) faces a new geopolitical reality with the large-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. While the Alliance has begun responding to emerging threats, its readiness for […]