Economy
Ministry and trade unions to work out fixed pay model for teachers
The Lithuanian Education and Science Ministry, together with trade unions, plans to work out by March a fixed pay model for school teachers. […]
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Politics
What to observe in Lithuanian politics in 2017
BNS Lithuania news agency lists the most important 2017 projected events on the political and public arena in Lithuania. […]
Politics
PM sees parlt elections as major 2016 event in Lithuania
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis sees the October parliamentary elections, which changed the country’s political map, as the most important 2016 event in the country, noting that the terrorist attacks in Europe were the most important worldwide. […]
Defence
Minister of Defence on his plans for national defence infrastructure
Raimundas Karoblis’ name has so far not been well known in Lithuania. A career diplomat with over 20 years of experience, he himself was surprised by the proposal to become Minister of National Defence. He is inheriting a ministry with both an impressively rising budget and at the same time – the taint of corruption, but the former diplomat tells Delfi TV that in the end he decided to operate on the idea of “If need be, then so be it”. […]
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Exclusive interview with the President
In an exclusive interview to TV3, President Dalia Grybauskaitė revealed how the new ministers were appointed. The President also responded warmly about the new Seimas and cabinet and asked people to be understanding to the […]
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New and future parties leaders: Who will rise from the ashes and whose end is nearing?
The Seimas elections knocked out all three political powers previously in the majority – the Labour Party, Order and Justice and the Lithuanian Social Democrat Party (LSDP). The Homeland Union – Lithuanian Social Democrats (TS-LKD) […]
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Skvernelis: normal work will begin once the state budget is approved
Voting regarding the VAT exemption for heating costs did not demonstrate unity between Prime Minister Saulius SKvernelis and colleagues from the party which delegated him. The PM himself says that this happened only because party […]
Foreign affairs
Three diplomats appointed Lithuania’s foreign vice-ministers
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius has appointed diplomats Neris Germanas, Darius Skusevičius and Albinas Zananavičius as new deputy foreign ministers. […]
Economy
President sees scrapping of reduced VAT on heating as untimely, improper
Raising the reduced 9-percent VAT rate on district heating to the standard 21-percent rate is an untimely and improper move, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Monday. […]
Politics
Peasant & Greens up on popularity scale, SocDdems down
Lithuania’s ruling Peasant and Greens Union, which triumphed in the recent parliamentary elections, saw its popularity grow, while that of their coalition partners, the Social Democratic Party, was cut in half from the September level, shows a poll published in the Lietuvos Rytas daily on Saturday. […]
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Paluckas speaks of a “Peasant” trap for the SocDems
Vilnius vice Mayor and member of the Social Democrat Party (LSDP) presidium Gintautas Paluckas warns that the coalition with the Peasant Greens (LPGU) is a trap for the Social Democrats. In his opinion the Peasant […]
Politics
Social Democrats confirm vice minister appointees
On December 17 the Social Democrat Party presidium confirmed the party‘s appointees to work as vice ministers in the ministries of economy, justice and foreign affairs. […]
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Where Kubilius and Butkevičius failed, will Skvernelis succeed?
How well did the Conservative government of Andrius Kubilius and the Social Democrat Government of Algirdas Butkevičius actually fare? What problems did the first cabinets since independence to last the whole term face and what pledges did they fail to accomplish? […]
Politics
Lithuania’s 17th Government takes oath
After the parliament on Tuesday approved the government’s program, the country’s 17th Cabinet headed by Saulius Skvernelis took oath. […]
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Politics
Seimas approves new government’s programme
he Lithuanian parliament endorsed on Tuesday the programme of the new coalition government of the Peasant and Green Union and the Social Democratic Party. […]
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Lithuania struggling with massive segregation – worse only in Serbia
Throughout four years of Social Democrat rule income inequality has risen even more in Lithuania and is now among the worst in the entire European Union. […]
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Jastramskis on Conservatives – “I do not envy the party’s strategists”
During discussions of electoral results it was typically accepted that the results of some parties depend on voter turnout. The Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) and Polish Electoral Action in Lithuania (LLRA) were typically identified as such parties; the lower the voter turnout, the better for the Conservatives and Poles. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian MPs call to invest in coop with US amid admin reshuffle
Amid changes in the United States administration, a group of Lithuanian MPs said after returning from a visit to the US that Lithuania should raise funding for maintaining ties with the strategic partner and making of new contacts. They say the regional priority should be cooperation with the neighboring Poland. […]
Politics
Labour Party elects new leader
Živilė Pinskuvienė, the mayor of the Širvintos district, was elected as the new leader of the Lithuanian Labour Party on Sunday. […]