Tensions remain high in the Seimas this week, with the opposition settling its accounts and dependencies with the majority. This time there was an effort to prove positions via ad hoc investigative commissions, according to […]
With calls in Seimas to review whether during Andrius Kubilius‘ term as prime minister in 2009-2012, borrowing from commercial banks did not cause widespread damage to the state, MP Ingrida Šimonytė retorts that this question […]
While Lithuania continues to make improvements to its investment climate, policy solutions are still needed to make it more attractive to foreign companies willing to invest and create jobs in the country. A discussion hosted at the Lithuanian parliament brought together Lithuanian policymakers, Nordic investors and business associations to talk about FDI, taxes and what it would take for Lithuania to move closer to its Northern European neighbours. […]
The Lithuanian Special Investigation Service (STT), the country’s main counter-corruption agency, should mainly focus on public procurement in various fields, says Žydrūnas Bartkus, candidate for director of the institution. […]
Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis has called upon political parties to support the proposal of the State Defence Council to raise the defence spending to 2.5 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) by 2030. […]
Lithuania’s parliament rejected the opposition initiative of early parliamentary elections in the first phase of discussion on Tuesday. […]
Despite the post-electoral euphoria calming down, the Lithuanian Farmer and Greens Union (LVŽS) retains high ratings – their voters are resistant to the scandals appearing in the public sphere. Political scientists muse that the LVŽS […]
Members of the opposition in the Lithuanian parliament are initiating a no-confidence vote against Laura Matjošaitytė, chairwoman of the Central Electoral Commission. […]
With the impeachment of M. Bastys failing in Seimas, a wave of outrage rippled forward, part earnest, part based on political considerations. Exchanges of polemic fire began. The majority and the opposition accused one another […]
Lithuania’s opposition conservatives and the ruling Farmers and Greens Union remain at the top of party ratings, followed by opposition Social Democrats in third, shows a survey conducted by Vilmorus pollster published in Lietuvos Rytas daily on Saturday. […]
After the Seimas vote to impeach Mindaugas Bastys floundered due to a lack of votes despite the Constitutional Court ruling that the now former MP broke the Constitution and his oath, the majority, despite accusing […]
Economist Gitanas Nausėda is rapidly climbing the presidential ratings lists – so far interviewed Lithuanian citizens would most often prefer to see him as Dalia Grybauskaitė‘s successor. However, political scientist Kęstutis Girnius says that it […]
More than half of members of the Seimas have registered constitutional amendments that would allow Lithuania’s impeached former president, Rolandas Paksas, to run both in parliamentary and presidential elections. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that the search for the country’s next justice minister has been unsuccessful so far. […]
Viktoras Pranckietis could consider stepping down as the speaker of the Seimas if he sees no possibilities for consolidating the parliament for efficient work, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Friday. […]
Viktoras Pranckietis says that he has support in the parliament and is not considering stepping down as the speaker of the Seimas, playing down the ruling party leader’s hint that he should do so as emotion-driven. […]
Ramūnas Karbauskis, the leader of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), has said that Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Seimas, may step down if he is ashamed of some members of the parliament. […]
Some 5,000 people gathered outside the Lithuanian parliament in Vilnius on Thursday afternoon to express discontent with the failed parliamentary vote to impeach MP Mindaugas Bastys and the performance of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (EU). […]
The Conservatives will be backing only one candidate for the post of president and if those opposing such a move appear, they will have to raise their candidacies individual with no party support, LRT.lt writes. […]
The chairman of the Lithuanian parliament’s Committee on National Security and Defence says that he will support the opposition’s proposal to hold early elections in June. […]
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