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Intriguing meeting between Karbauskis and Matijošaitis in Kaunas – presidential negotiations begin?
After an informal meeting, Kaunas Mayor Visvaldas Matijošaitis and Lithuanian Farmer and Greens Union (LVŽS) chairman Ramūnas Karbauskis assured they simply spoke of “farming and bees”. According to Delfi sources, this discussion also touched upon […]
Foreign affairs
Sweden’s parliament speaker visiting Lithuania
A Swedish delegation headed by Parliamentary Speaker Urban Ahlin is visiting Lithuania on Monday. […]
Politics
Lithuania’s Liberals, Šimašius losing popularity – BNS/RAIT poll
The Lithuanian Liberal Movement, which has been battling a leadership crisis and recently lost state funding over financing violations, is also losing the support of the voters, shows a poll conducted by the market research company RAIT for BNS Lithuania. […]
Politics
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, shows a survey conducted by RAIT pollster for BNS news agency. […]
Politics
Seimas speaker sees efforts to stall decisions on non-Lithuanian names in passports
Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis stated on Monday he saw efforts at the parliament to derail the adoption of the laws that would allow non-Lithuanian letters in first and last names in passports. […]
Politics
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 MP Linas Balsys is drunk. […]
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Economy
EU promises further funding for Ignalina N-plant closure – Seimas speaker
The European Commission remains committed to providing funding for the decommissioning of Lithuania’s Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Seimas, said after meeting with EU Budget Commissioner Guenther Oettinger in Vilnius on Thursday. […]
Economy
Commissioner Oettinger to discuss EU budget with Lithuanian leaders
Guenther Oettinger, the EU commissioner in charge of budget and human resources, is coming to Vilnius on Thursday to discuss the EU’s next multiannual financial framework with Lithuania’s leaders. […]
Foreign affairs
EU Budget Commissioner Oettinger to visit Vilnius this week
Guenther Oettinger, the EU commissioner in charge of budget and human resources, is to come on a visit to Lithuania on Thursday. […]
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Lightning keeps striking all year, will the villager start crossing himself?
I wish to immediately admit: the past year after the Seimas elections are still not enough time to strictly evaluate the majority’s work. However I am afraid that this time we may have a unique […]
Politics
Coalition talks possible with Polish party group, not Tomaszewski – Seimas’ speaker
Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis does not rule out that the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU) would hold coalition talks with the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania – Union of Christian Families amid the lack of formal majority. […]
Politics
Kaunas mayor still 2nd among Lithuania’s most popular politicians
Kaunas Mayor Visvaldas Matijošaitis continues ranking second, after Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė, on the list of the country’s most popular politicians in October, shows a poll published in Lietuvos Rytas daily on Saturday. […]
Politics
Lithuanian president popularity, Farmers just ahead of Conservatives
The popularity of Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė saw a slight decline in September from the earlier month, while the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union and the opposition conservatives enjoy roughly the same support among political parties, shows a survey conducted by RAIT pollster for BNS Lithuania. […]
Politics
Lithuania’s citizenship vote possible during presidential election – Seimas speaker’s rep
The dual citizenship referendum will probably be held in conjunction with the presidential elections in 18 months, says Lithuanian Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis‘ representative. […]
Economy
Seimas Speaker’s delegation didn’t fit in Air Baltic airplane
A delegation headed by Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis was forced to spend the night in Brussels after failing to fit in the airplane of Air Baltic airline. He was scheduled to return to Vilnius on Wednesday. […]
Politics
Seimas vice-speaker sees moratorium as only possible compromise in for SocDems
Lithuania’s Parliamentary Vice-Speaker Gediminas Kirkilas of the Social Democratic Party says that a moratorium on all recent decisions is the only compromise possible in the clash of the positions of the party and the political group on the party’s future in the ruling coalition. […]
Economy
Government couldn’t avert EU fine on railway co – transpmin
Lithuanian Transport Minister Rokas Masiulis says that the government, which took office in late 2016, could not have averted a fine of almost 28 million euros that the European Commission imposed on Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, or LG) for breaching the bloc’s anti-trust rules. […]
Economy
Lithuania will have to rebuild dismantled railway to Latvia – Seimas speaker
Lithuania’s state-run railway company Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (LG) will have to rebuild the dismantled railway stretch to Latvia after the removal caused the European Commission to impose a 28-million-euro fine, says Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis. […]