Every Seimas elections bring new, non-traditional political parties into public view. And while some of these political movements often are…
They say that only after the first one hundred days can you really begin to be more critical of a…
There is so much talk about the welfare state vision that it can already be pictured in a physical manifestation…
The sort of chaos we now see in Seimas hadn’t yet been seen in Seimas after the restoration of independence.…
The cart is being pulled by nigh on equal forces in different directions, thus it’s shaking and remaining in one…
Proposals considered by the Lithuanian Parliament would raise social insurance contributions that small businesses have to pay into the system…
Lithuania should consider introducing a basic income model that could provide €200 to every citizen, changing the current complex and…
The Lithuanian government and parliament groups have agreed to set up an unemployment fund. The money would be used to…
President Dalia Grybauskaitė and Social Security Minister Algimanta Pabedinskienė visited Rimėnai village in the Alytus region on Wednesday to learn…
A member of the Lithuanian parliament has proposed legal amendments denying benefits to individuals who indulge in "anti-social behaviour". [...]
The gap between revenue and expenditure of Lithuania's State Social Insurance Fund, the Sodra, next year is expected to narrow…
There are plans in the upcoming school year to provide around 80,000 schoolchildren in Lithuania with free school lunch. The…
Lithuania is often described as a country where potential investors are put off by a tax system inherited from the…
Norway ranks as the world's best place to be a mother in the annual scorecard released by Save the Children…
I would like to present an innovative way of seeing how the welfare state can mitigate wide-spread socio-economic risks and…
Norway's Ambassador to Lithuania Dag Malmer Halvorsen says that children are rarely taken from their Lithuanian families in Norway. [...]
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway has promised Lithuanian Ambassador in Oslo Izolda Bričkovskienė to put every effort to…
Lithuanian Seimas opposition leader, conservative Andrius Kubilius, has asked President Dalia Grybauskaitė to veto the draft budget for 2015 of…
The Lithuanian parliament on Tuesday adopted the 2015 budget for the state social insurance fund, Sodra, that provides for bringing…
The Latvian Welfare Ministry proposes to not only set a new minimum monthly income level, but also to alter the…