Martin Schulz
European Union

EP gets second request to strip Lithuanian MEP of legal immunity

European Parliament President Martin Schulz said during Wednesday’s plenary session in Brussels that the Parliament had received another request from Lithuanian prosecutors to have MEP Viktor Uspaskich stripped of his legal immunity. […]

Foreign affairs

Lithuanian Foreign Ministry’s statement on elections in Ukraine

We congratulate the people of Ukraine for expressing their will in free and democratic early elections to Verkhovna Rada and for choosing European future. […]

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Politics

Lithuanian parliament passes amendment allowing EU citizens to run in municipal and EP elections

With 54 votes in favour, 3 against and 10 abstentions, Lithuania’s parliament approved draft amendments to the preamble to the Law on Political Parties, implementing the requirement laid down in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to guarantee citizens of the union who are not nationals of that state the right to stand as candidates in municipal elections and in elections to the European Parliament, the Seimas’ press service reports. […]

Valentinas Mazuronis and Rolandas Paksas
European Union

Euro-sceptical EP group survives, two Lithuania MEPs to stay

The leaders of the Lithuanian Order and Justice party, Rolandas Paksas and Valentinas Mazuronis, will continue working in the Euro-sceptical group at the European Parliament (EP), as the group of Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy survives. […]

Grzegorz Schetyna
Uncategorized

Poland’s new foreign minister puzzles policymakers in Vilnius

Lithuanian politicians are hoping that the change in leadership of neighbouring Poland’s diplomatic corps will have a positive impact on bilateral relations. Meanwhile political analysts predict that Poland’s president will assume more leadership in the country’s foreign policy. […]