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Gentvilas denies Liberal Movement was MG Baltic’s project
Eugenijus Gentvilas, leader of Lithuania’s Liberal Movement, categorically rejects claims made the State Security Department‘s (VSD) report that the Liberal Movement was a long-term project of the MG Baltic business group. […]
Politics
Seimas committee won’t probe presidential emails
The Seimas of Lithuania’s Committee on National Security and Defense (NSGK) won’t probe the circumstances mentioned in email exchanges between President Dalia Grybauskaitė and former Liberal Movement leader Eligijus Masiulis, charged with corruption, CNSD chairman Vytautas Bakas says. […]
Politics
Journalist’s ties attract attention of Lithuanian parlt probe – media
The Seimas of Lithuania’s Committee on National Security and Defense, currently carrying out a probe into interest groups’ influence on politicians, is also interested in journalist Tomas Dapkus working for a TV channel owned by MG Baltic, the Lietuvos Rytas daily writes. […]
CORPORATE
S. Šedbaras: publication of Masiulis and the president’s correspondence could harm Lithuania
Former Liberal Movement leader Eligijus Masiulis, who is a suspect in the MG Baltic corruption case, publication of correspondence with President Dalia Grybauskaitė could be harmful to Lithuania, Seimas Legal Affairs Committee deputy chairman Stasys […]
Politics
Email extracts: Lithuanian president called energy watchdog chair “Icor lady”
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė wanted to sack Diana Korsakaitė, the former chairwoman of the country’s National Commission for Energy Control and Prices, for her links to Icor business group, according to extracts of the president’s emails, published on Thursday. […]
Politics
Lithuanian ruling party to look if president’s emails are authentic
The Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LVŽS) will look at whether recently published emails between President Dalia Grybauskaitė and Eligijus Masiulis, a former Liberal Movement leader suspected in a political corruption case, are authentic, with the answers expected to come from the Seimas servers. […]
Politics
PM sees no grounds for Seimas commission over president’s emails
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that he sees no grounds, at least for now, for opening a parliamentary investigation into President Dalia Grybauskaitė‘s email exchanges with Eligijus Masiulis, a former Liberal Movement leader suspected in a political corruption case. […]
Politics
PM looks at president’s emails from moral rather than legal viewpoint
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that President Dalia Grybauskaitė‘s email exchanges with Eligijus Masiulis, a former Liberal Movement leader accused of corruption, should be looked at from a moral rather than a legal point of view. […]
Politics
President confirms email exchanges with Masiulis, not authenticity of letters
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė does not deny having had email exchanges with Eligijus Masiulis, a former Liberal Movement leader suspected in a political corruption case, but says that she cannot confirm the authenticity of letters published in the media. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian MPs propose freezing Russian oligarchs’ assets
Representatives of two Lithuanian opposition parties – the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats and the Liberal Movement – are calling for the adoption of amendments that would create legal provisions to freeze assets of Russian oligarchs blacklisted by the Baltic state and restrict their economic and financial activities in the country. […]
Politics
Prosecutors say politicians’ lawful behavior not part of investigation
Lithuanian prosecutors on Monday declined to comment on claims by Eligijus Masiulis regarding his email exchange with President Dalia Grybauskaitė, saying that politicians’ lawful behavior was not part of their pre-trial investigation into a political corruption case involving the former leader of the Liberal Movement. […]
Politics
President’s behavior “unacceptable”, Seimas committee chair says
The Lietuvos Rytas daily’s report reveals Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė‘s unacceptable behavior of coordinating the appointment of prosecutor general, MP Agnė Širinskienė of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LVŽS) says. […]
Politics
President’s email exchange with Masiulis: what do we know?
Following the Lietuvos Rytas report on Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė‘s email exchange with former liberal leader Eligijus Masiulis, BNS Lithuania provides key known facts. […]
CORPORATE
Responses to E. Masiulis and the president‘s correspondence: risking impeachment
If it turns out that the information released on the correspondence between the president and former Liberal Movement leader Eligijus Masiulis, who is a suspect in the MG Baltic corruption investigation, MPs could seek to […]
Politics
Masiulis claims to have exchanged emails with Lithuanian president for 2 years
Eligijus Masiulis, former leader of Lithuania’s liberals, currently a suspect in a political corruption case, claims to have exchanged emails with Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė for at least two years, the Lietuvos Rytas daily writes. […]
CORPORATE
Ratings trap: the bells may not be tolling for the “Farmers”
Despite the Lithuanian Farmer and Greens Union (LVŽS) ratings released last Saturday being the lowest since the elections, political scientists do not view this as overly significant – it could simply be a coincidence, there […]
CORPORATE
A difficult period looms on the horizon for the Liberal Movement
On the eve of the political corruption court proceedings, the Liberal Movement‘s leaders are deliberating on how the party should survive the coming especially difficult period, as well as which of their colleagues would dare […]
CORPORATE
How do we differ?
The Social Democratic Labour Party was born, despite a variety of insults, the desperation of lost opponents, the doubts of political commentators. However, when several thousands of people unite, whatever one says, it means that […]
European Union
Seimas pauses in ratification of EU-Canada trade deal
Lithuania’s parliament on Thursday decided to take a pause in the adoption of a resolution for ratification of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between the European Union and Canada. […]