Antanas Guoga
Politics

MEP Guoga does not give up plans to run for Seimas despite dual citizenship issue

A Lithuanian member of the European Parliament, Antanas Guoga, who has Australian citizenship, has recently discovered that Lithuanian laws do not allow foreign citizens to run in parliamentary elections. Guoga was planning to be a candidate of the Liberal Movement party in Vilkaviškis single-member constituency and challenge the incumbent Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius in 2016. […]

Dalia Grybauskaitė
Politics

Opposition on president’s address: She does not expect problems to be solved by this government

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė did not say much about the government’s work in her State of the Nation Address on Thursday as she hardly expects anything from it, the Seimas opposition says. […]

Loreta Graužinienė, Andrius Kubilius
Society

Lithuanian politicians react to Estonia’s same-sex partnership law: One area we do not wish to be Baltic leaders

Lithuanian politicians say they have no plans to follow Estonia‘s example in legalizing same-sex partnerships. […]