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Key challenges to Nausėda presidency: politicians may prove disruptive

President-Elect has taken to work from his very first days, what are the key challenges to Nausėda presidency? Offices have…

6 years ago
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MPs calls for ban on fur farming

A group of Lithuanian lawmakers are proposing introducing a ban on growing animals for fur, introducing a transition period for…

6 years ago
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Balsys joins LSDP group in Seimas

Linas Balsys is leaving the group of non-attached members of the Lithuanian parliament to join the political group of the…

7 years ago
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Lithuania’s embattled MP Balsys back to work

Lithuanian MP Linas Balsys has returned to work after a break of over a month, saying that he has undergone…

7 years ago
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Lithuania’s Centre Party beats Liberals in popularity – BNS/RAIT survey

The Lithuanian Center Party headed by MP Naglis Puteikis has for the first time passed the Liberal Movement on the…

7 years ago
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Lithuanian police drop probe into MP Balsys’ drunk driving due to lack of evidence

Lithuania's law-enforcement have dropped the investigation into the allegations that MP Linas Balsys drove under the influence of alcohol, as…

7 years ago
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Popularity of Kaunas mayor still growing – Vilmorus/Lietuvos Rytas poll

The popularity of Visvaldas Matijošaitis, mayor of Lithuania's second-largest city Kaunas, continues growing, shows a poll published in Lietuvos Rytas…

7 years ago
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Lithuanian residents unhappy with 1st year of new Seimas – poll

The majority of Lithuania's residents are unhappy with the parliament's performance over the first year after the 2016 parliamentary elections,…

7 years ago
  • Society

Lithuania police open probe into MP Balsys drinking and driving suspicions

Vilnius police on Monday opened a pre-trial investigation into suspicions that MP Linas Balsys was driving under the influence of…

7 years ago
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Embattled MP Balsys under care of doctors, his family – statement

Linas Balsys, a Lithuanian lawmaker who appeared to be drunk when he left the parliament building in his car last…

7 years ago
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Lithuania’s intermin to look into drunken MP incident

Lithuania's Interior Minister Eimutis Misiūnas has pledged to look into the reasons why the police was notified about the allegedly…

7 years ago
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Lithuanian MP Balsys suspected of being drunk in parlt, police may be called in (Updated)

The leadership of the Lithuanian Seimas want to call the police to the parliament building in Vilnius over suspicions that…

7 years ago
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  • Opinion

There is one way to halt the construction of Astravyets NPP

It has now been eight years since Lithuania was officially informed of the decision to construct a nuclear power plant…

8 years ago
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Lithuania doesn’t question status of Kaliningrad region – ForMin

In response to remarks by a Lithuanian lawmaker, the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry said on Monday that it is not questioning…

8 years ago
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A nuclear payload in Astravyets – how to convince Europe it is a threat?

Members of Seimas have been clamouring that the government is doing too little in order to obstruct the construction of…

8 years ago
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  • Opinion

MP Šakalienė on embryos vote in Seimas – I‘m realy angry now

Human rights expert Dovilė Šakalienė who was invited into Seimas by the Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union (LPGU) shared an…

8 years ago
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Seimas electoral debates begin with economics

Four week cycle of Seimas electoral debates has commenced. Politicians will be discussing the topics of economics, demographics, justice and…

8 years ago
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L. Balsys critical of Lithuania’s approach to Astravyets N-Plant

Lithuanian Green Party Chairman Linas Balsys has expressed a number of critical remarks toward the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats the…

8 years ago
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Green Party and Homeland Union exchanges over foreign policy

Russia is not a terrorist state thus relations with it should be improved Linas Balsys, head of the Lithuanian Green…

8 years ago
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Protesters in Vilnius demand Lukashenko regime to release political prisoners

Several dozen of people gathered in the Town Hall Square in Vilnius on Tuesday urged Belarus to release political prisoners…

9 years ago