Viktoras Pranckietis EN Archives - Page 17 of 20

Seimas speaker mentions impeachment for Bastys, PM sees no grounds

March 10, 2017 BNS EN 0

Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis has said that the parliament might open an impeachment procedure against Social Democratic MP Mindaugas Bastys, if he does not decide to step down from the Seimas leadership and the parliament itself after the State Security Department refused to give him access to classified information due to his personal links with criminal figures and representatives of Russian energy companies. […]

Bastys didn’t pass security filter due to Rosatom, ex-KGB links

March 10, 2017 BNS EN 0

Lithuania’s Social Democratic MP Mindaugas Bastys did not get a permit to work with classified information due to his personal links with representatives of Russian energy companies and the criminal community, a former KGB agent and a pro-Kremlin journalist, shows a report from the State Security Department. […]

Security materials contain “nothing much” – Vice Speaker Bastys

March 10, 2017 BNS EN 0

After being urged by Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis to step down from the post of Seimas vice-speaker, Social Democratic MP Mindaugas Bastys said he had been acquainted with the materials provided by the State Security Department, pledging to decide after a consultation with the political group. […]

Official ethics chief resigns

March 10, 2017 BNS EN 0

Romas Valentukevičius, the head of the Lithuanian chief Official Ethics Commission (VTEK), presented his resignation from the post to Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis on Thursday, March 9, the parliament’s Public Relations Division said. […]

Mindaugas Bastys with president Dalia Grybauskaitė on March 8

Seimas speaker: Bastys must resign from Seimas leadership amid security materials

March 9, 2017 BNS EN 0

Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis on Thursday urged Mindaugas Bastys, a member of the ruling Social Democratic Party, to step down from the post of parliamentary vice-speaker. […]

Ethics chief pledges to resign tomorrow

March 9, 2017 BNS EN 0

Romas Valentukevičius, the head of the Lithuanian chief Official Ethics Commission (VTEK), says he would resign from the post on Friday, March 10. […]

Govt coalition partners back decision to sack official ethics chief

March 9, 2017 BNS EN 0

Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas, says that the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU) and its ruling coalition partner, the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP), unanimously approve of his decision to sack Romas Valentukevičius as head of the Chief Official Ethics Commission (VTEK). […]

Some MPs propose to consider lowering election barrier for Natl minorities

March 9, 2017 BNS EN 0

The May 3 Group set up at the Lithuanian parliament to address national minority policy issues proposes to consider lowering the Seimas election threshold for national minority parties. […]

Farmers will support govt-proposed forestry restructuring – Seimas speaker

March 8, 2017 BNS EN 0

The Lithuanian Farmers and Green Union group will unanimously support the government’s proposal to merge dozens of forestry companies into a single state-run enterprise, says Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis. […]

Lithuania not ready to enforce court ruling on name spelling

March 6, 2017 BNS EN 0

A Lithuanian court this week instructed migration authorities to enter last names of two Lithuanian citizens with non-Lithuanian characters in their passports, however, migration agencies say they cannot do this until the name-spelling issue has been solved by the parliament. […]

Ramūnas Karbauskis ir Saulius Skvernelis © DELFI / Kiril Čachovskij

What is going on between Skvernelis and Karbauskis? One of them has become a hostage

March 3, 2017 DELFI 0

Bronislovas Matelis departed the Farmer and Greens Union Seimas group, but he continues to take interest in the processes developing in it, he has been watching what has been going on between Prime Minister Saulius […]

Separate programme proposed for Jewish heritage maintenance

March 1, 2017 BNS EN 0

Diana Varnaitė, director of the Lithuanian Cultural Heritage Department, has proposed envisaging separate funding of maintenance of the Jewish heritage, an idea supported by Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis. […]

Seimas speaker sees increase of defense funding as decision of principle

March 1, 2017 BNS EN 0

The proposal made by the Lithuanian State Defence Council to earmark 2 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) to defence next year is a political decision of principle, says Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis. […]

From the passenger's seat - at the Seimas

A hundred days of Seimas – reflections

February 27, 2017 Media Briefing 0

Car rent, hidden relations, furs and an expensive designer coat, national costumes, a grand piano in Seimas, opposition to anti-violence against children legislation and an attempt to change the in vitro fertilisation legislation which was […]

PM’s ratings continue climbing – poll

February 27, 2017 BNS EN 0

The scandalous stories involving the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Green Union have had an impact on the ratings of the party and its leaders, Ramūnas Karbauskis and Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, shows the latest survey published in Lietuvos Rytas daily. […]

Speaker sees prosecutor suspicions as harm to state reputation

February 24, 2017 BNS EN 0

Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis says that the influence peddling suspicions brought by the Special Investigation Service against a Vilnius prosecutor harm the reputation of state institutions. […]

Seimas board updated on threats of cyber attack – Seimas speaker

February 22, 2017 BNS EN 0

The Lithuanian parliament’s board met with military intelligence officers in Vilnius on Wednesday, focusing on threats of cyber attacks, Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis has said. […]

Lithuania didn’t demand choice of another location for Astravyets N-plant – Seimas speaker

February 22, 2017 BNS EN 0

Lithuania did not contribute to the choice of a different location for the Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), which is being built in Belarus close to the Lithuanian border, says Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis, adding that the only thing the country can do now to stop the project is to restrict access of the plant’s electricity to the Lithuanian market. […]

Zones of radioctive termination of the Astravyets nuclear power plant

What is the final geopolitical goal of the Astravyets nuclear power plant?

February 21, 2017 Media Briefing 0

Prior to moving to the most important problem – the Astravyets nuclear power plant (NPP) project it is worth at least briefly reminding of several present actors related to the topic Tomas Dapkus writes in […]

Hoax about offence by German troops came from outside EU

February 19, 2017 BNS EN 0

The false report to parliamentary speaker and the police about an alleged rape of a small girl by German troops in Lithuania came from outside the European Union, says chief Kaunas prosecutor Darius Valkavčius. […]