After the Social Democratic Party’s council on Saturday decided to leave the ruling coalition with the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis decided to call off his plans to visit Georgia. […]
Lithuania’s Justice Minister Milda Vainiutė and Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius intend to stay in the government, while Economy Minister Mindaugas Sinkevičius is resigning. […]
If the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) withdraws from the ruling coalition with the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), its ministers and heads of parliamentary committees should step down too, Lithuania’s EU commissioner Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis, who is the LSDP’s honorary chairman, said. […]
The Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) leader Gabrielius Landsbergis has stabilised his leadership within the party and is seen as a unifying figure in it, while Lithuanian Social Democrat Party (LSDP) chairman Gintautas […]
With an eye on elections, Gintautas Paluckas, chairman of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP), wants to pull his party out of the ruling coalition with Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), Ramūnas Karbauskis, the LFGU chairman, said on Wednesday. […]
When the former and current leaders of one of the major parties in the country communicate through public letters, journalists and public commentators experience good times. The same happened to the Homeland Union – Lithuanian […]
Amid proposals from some branches of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party to withdraw from the ruling coalition, three former leaders – ex-PMs Algirdas Butkevičius and Gediminas Kirkilas, as well as former parliamentary speaker Česlovas Juršėnas – insist that the party should stay in the bloc. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that the government-proposed tax changes should ensure more social justice, while the current proposals will raise heating prices and the new ceiling on social insurance payments will further increase the income of those making the highest salaries. […]
Lithuania’s ruling coalition is working in a stable and consistent manner, Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis after a meeting of the coalition’s political council. […]
Having left it to its branches to decide regarding participation in the ruling coalition, the Social Democrats have opened up the way to broader party democracy, but the question arises whether the party can handle […]
The contours of the Social Democrat position regarding the coalition’s fate are slowly emerging. And only the Jonava branch, led by Minister of Economy Mindaugas Sinkevičius, spoke up in support of continued work with the […]
Minister of Finance Vilius Šapoka has announced that the 9% VAT exemption for heating is to be temporarily returned from autumn to the end of the year. What it will be like from 2018 has […]
The 9-percent value-added tax (VAT) discount tariff for heating will be reintroduced in Lithuania on a temporary basis between the fall and the end of 2017, Finance Minister Vilius Šapoka said. The discount for 2018 has not yet been specified. […]
In an effort to attract more investments and protect Lithuania’s interest abroad, the government has come up with an idea of replacing commercial attaches working in embassies with specialized envoys of institutions. […]
With the United Kingdom having begun the procedures for leaving the European Union, Lithuanian chances to attract investors are not just linked with British companies, but also with investors who are having to shift their […]
Lithuania could become a member of the Extreme Light Infrastructure Delivery Consortium (ELI-DC) by the end of this year, Economy Minister Mindaugas Sinkevičius said. […]
In Los Angeles, Minister of Economy Mindaugas Sinkevičius visited one of the most advanced global companies — Hyperloop One — which is engaged in creating a new generation transport system. At the meeting, the company’s representatives presented the technology and vision they are working on: to connect Scandinavia and the Baltic States as well as Poland and Germany via the Hyperloop One transport corridor; they also proposed that Lithuania could participate in this process Ministry of Economy reported. […]
Trustpilot, considered one of Denmark’s most promising startups, is establishing a product development division in Vilnius. In the next two years, the company, which operates one of the world’s largest online review communities, plans to build a team of approximately 40 software system engineers in the Lithuanian capital. Initially, this team will be responsible for the infrastructure of big data and authentication systems that the Trustpilot platform is based on. […]
The newly elected social democrat leader Gintautas Paluckas on Saturday presented his conditions, according to which he would like to continue working with Farmer and greens Union, which is a partner in the coalition. Firstly, […]
Vilnius Vice-Mayor Gintautas Paluckas has been elected as the leader of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party, the country’s largest party. […]
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