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New poll shows major shifts in Lithuanian political parties support
A new poll has revealed surprising shifts in Lithuania’s political landscape with government parties’ support slumping. […]
Politics
Lithuanian electoral commission distributes year’s first party subsidies
The Lithuanian Central Electoral Commission distributed the year’s first subsidies – a total of €2.7 million – to nine parties. […]
Defence
Confidential national security report outlines threats in Lithuania
On Wednesday, the State Security Department (SSD) presented a report on threats to national security to the Seimas‘ National Security and Defence Committee. […]
CORPORATE
Labour Party proposal to fix milk prices draws criticism, including from dairy producers
Lithuania’s Labour Party, whose delegate, Virginija Baltraitienė, is currently serving as the Minister of Agriculture, has proposed a controversial law to protect dairy producers that has critics, even those in the dairy industry, scratching their heads. […]
Economy
Lithuanian Prime Minister supports controversial VAT cut proposal
The currently existing value-added tax (VAT) of 21 percent can stand to be reduced, believes Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius. […]
Politics
Lithuania in “medium-sized” political crisis but coalition likely to remain
Lithuania is currently undergoing a “medium-sized” political crisis, according to Lithuanian political scientists and analysts, but one that should not threaten the current Government’s and ruling coalition’s composition. […]
CORPORATE
23 parties to run in Seimas elections this year
23 registered Lithuanian political parties have submitted their member lists to the Ministry of Justice by 1 March and will be able to participate in the Seimas elections coming up in October. […]
Politics
Ethics commission to investigate early end to Seimas extraordinary session
The Seimas Commission for Ethics and Procedures will convene to investigate the disputes surrounding the abrupt ending of the extraordinary Seimas session called for by the opposition last week. […]
Politics
Ruling coalition wants social model proposal passed as soon as possible
Lithuania’s ruling coalition says its parties have agreed that the social model liberalizing the labor market should be approved as soon as possible. The issue was discussed at the ruling coalition’s political council on Tuesday. […]
Politics
Teachers’ wage dispute causes government rift as Social Democrats accuse Labour Party of deceit
On Tuesday, the Social Democratic party will hold a political council meeting to ascertain whether the Labour Party supports the Government’s decisions regarding teachers’ wages and the social model being considered by the Seimas (parliament). […]
Politics
Why was sentence so light for Labour party founder?
It took almost 10 years for a court’s decision regarding the Labour Party‘s fraudulent bookkeeping in 2004-2006 to come into effect. However, the Vilnius circuit court’s altered decision regarding the sentence for Viktor Uspaskich, the party’s disgraced founder, raised a storm of commentary. Few seem to have expected the appeal court’s decision. How could it be that the accused got away with a tiny fine when they had been working to hide millions? […]
CORPORATE
Controversy over Lithuanian children seized in Norway prompts hard look inwards
Protests have sprung up across a number of countries against the actions of Barnevernet, the Norwegian children’s welfare service that has removed numerous children from migrant families in Norway. Last Thursday, one such protest sprang up in front of the Norwegian embassy in Vilnius but Linas Linkevičius, the Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, said “only a legal path, not populist protests and rallies, can be used to negotiate with Norway for the children that were taken from those Lithuanians”. […]
Society
Protest at Norwegian embassy accuses children’s rights service of stealing children
On Thursday, a protest held in front of the Norwegian embassy in Vilnius drew attention to what participants referred to as the theft of children by Barnevernet, the Norwegian children’s rights service. […]
Politics
Is Minister of Finance Rimantas Šadžius guaranteed an EU auditor’s post in Luxembourg?
Though a wave of discontent spread though the ruling coalition when Minister of Finance Rimantas Šadžius was appointed to be Lithuania’s representative to the EU’s Court of Auditors, it seems like those waves are subsiding. […]
Politics
Politics
Labour party will not ask Seimas speaker Loreta Graužinienė to step down despite widespread disapproval
With less than a year left until the Seimas (parliament) elections, the Labour Party is not planning to ask Loreta Graužinienė to leave the Seimas speaker‘s position. However, not only the opposition, but some MPs from the ruling coalition are dissatisfied with the politician. […]
European Union
EP committee suggests revoking MEP Uspaskich’s immunity
The European Parliament‘s (EP) Committee on Legal Affairs on Tuesday advised that the EP should lift the legal immunity of Lithuanian MEP Viktor Uspaskich, the founder of the country’s ruling Labour Party. […]
Politics
Pinskus withdraws from multiple positions held in Labour party
The Labour Party‘s mayoral candidate in recent elections in Vilnius, Jonas Pinskus, announced on Monday about his withdrawal from multiple positions held in the party. […]
Energy
High expectations for Lithuania’s new Energy Minister
Rokas Masiulis, the CEO of Klaipėdos Nafta (Klaipeda Oil) who was on Monday appointed as the country’s new energy minister, says that he has already discussed the energy sector’s prospects with Loreta Graužinienė, the leader of the Labour Party which delegated him to the post. […]