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. […]
Compulsory treatment for alcoholism may begin as June of this year, if the laws prepare by the Ministry of Health are approved by the Seimas in its spring session. The drafting of these laws was prompted in part by tragic events in Lithuania, including the tragedies in Kražiai and Kėdainiai. […]
At the beginning of 2016, an order came into effect at the Ministry of Health that bars children that have not been vaccinated from polio, measles or rubella from being enrolled in kindergarten. Now, the Lithuanian courts will investigate whether this order, issued by former Minister of Health Vytenis Andriukaitis, was legal. […]
Starting on 1 January, 2016, a new motorized infantry brigade named Žemaitija will be formed in Western Lithuania. […]
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. […]
After the Seimas (parliament) failed to adopt legislation authorizing mandatory vaccinations, an order made by former Minister of Health Vytenis Andriukaitis instructing not to accept unvaccinated children to kindergarten extablishments will take effect in 1 January, 2016. Minister of Health Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė says that the order will only apply to newly accepted children. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė has dismissed three judges from the Vilnius County Court, appointing them to the Court of Appeal of Lithuania. The judges in question are Goda Ambrasaitė-Balynienė, Antanas Rudzinskas and Algimantas Valantinas. […]
The Seimas (parliament) has adopted an amendment to the Law on Education that has made kindergarten education compulsory in Lithuania. Fifty-nine parliamentarians voted for the amendment, 9 voted against it, and 27 abstained. […]
The Lithuanian Seimas snubbed Vytautas Landsbergis, chairman of the Supreme Council of Lithuania (the reconstituent Seimas) and signatory of the Independence Restoration Act, when it voted to deny him the 2015 Freedom Prize on 24 November. Now, however, the Public Council under the Commission for the Rights and Affairs of Participants of The Resistance to Occupation Regimes and Victims of Occupation has addressed Speaker of the Seimas Loreta Graužinienė, calling for the prize to be awarded to Landsbergis. […]
Lithuania’s Seimas on Thursday gave its initial backing to a constitutional amendment that would allow leader of the Order and Justice party Rolandas Paksas who was impeached and removed as president to run for parliament and president. […]
Chairman of the Seimas National Security and Defence Committee, Artūras Paulauskas, says that the first conscripts, around 1,600 of them, will be drafted in August-September. Another 1,400 should be drafted in November-December and thus the total number will stand at 3,000. […]
The fall session just completed by the Lithuanian parliament is historic, as it adopted a package of laws ensuring Lithuania‘s accession to the euro area, Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužinienė says. […]
Daiva Raudonienė, 38, has been appointed chancellor of the Seimas of Lithuania for a five-year term. She was previously the head of the Office of the parliamentary Committee on Audit. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that he welcomes an agreement between Estonia and Finland to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, adding that Lithuania’s LNG terminal in Klaipėda will be able to supply the future-to-be Finnish-Estonian facility with gas. […]
Lithuania does not need a special law on the spelling of names and surnames as amendments to existing legislation are only needed, says Jūratė Pavilionytė, deputy chairperson of the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language. […]
Social Democrat member of the Seimas Birutė Vesaitė is against the plans to lift the VAT exemption on heating. […]
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