Grybauskaitė: Faith in free Europe powerful counterbalance to extremists
BNS Faith in a free Europe is a powerful counterbalance to any doubts spread by populist and extremist forces about the significance of the European Union, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said...
View ArticleCox: Ukrainian crisis one of EU’s biggest challenges
BNS The crisis in Ukraine is one of the European Union’s biggest challenges and one of the worst diplomatic crises since the end of the Cold War, former European Parliament President Pat Cox said in...
View ArticleSeimas Human Rights Committee moves to grant rescuers of Jews freedom fighter...
On 14 May 2014, the Seimas Committee on Human Rights approved an amendment legally qualifying people who saved Jews during the Holocaust as Participants of the Resistance to the 1940–1990 Occupations...
View ArticleSeimas unlikely to replace vice-speaker Austrevicius
BNS Lithuania’s Parliamentary Vice Speaker Petras Austrevicius’s seat in the Seimas will not be filled when the Lithuanian Liberal Movement leader takes his newly won place in the European Parliament....
View ArticleButkevicius to replace ‘incompetent’ vice ministers
BNS Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius has a list of vice ministers he deems incompetent. He told national radio listeners this morning that he is negotiating with coalition partners to...
View ArticleLiberals, Order and Justice party get more supporters after EP vote in Lithuania
BNS The Lithuanian ruling Social Democratic Party of Lithuania and the Labour Party have lost some of their supporters after the May elections to the European Parliament. And the number of those...
View ArticleSeimas Speaker encourages ministers to follow example of Mazuronis’ staff...
Loreta Graužinienė, Speaker of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, welcomed the decision made by the Minister of Environment, Valentinas Mazuronis, to dismiss the heads of the institutions under...
View ArticleLithuania’s election panel officially kicks Venckienė out of Seimas
BNS The Central Electoral Commission of Lithuania announced Wednesday that it is rescinding Neringa Venckienė’s Seimas mandate due to excessive absenteeism. “We conclude that her mandate has ended and...
View ArticleLithuanian parliament approves direct mayoral elections
BNS Following more than ten years of discussions, the Seimas of Lithuania on Thursday finally voted in favor of introducing direct mayoral elections. After President Dalia Grybauskaitė signs the law,...
View ArticleLithuanian parliament tightens residence requirements for foreigners
BNS The Seimas of Lithuania on Thursday passed a bill, tightening requirements for foreigners who want to reside in Lithuania. The amendments have been initiated by the Ministry of the Interior to...
View ArticleMajor General Žukas gets parliament’s endorsement for Lithuania’s chief of...
BNS The Seimas of Lithuania on Thursday unanimously backed Major General Jonas Vytautas Žukas’s candidacy as Lithuania’s chief of defence. Žukas, 52, is currently Lithuania’s military representative to...
View ArticleLithuanian parliament rejects invitation to Moscow forum
BNS A parliamentary forum hosted by the Russian capital Moscow has caused doubts to the Board of the Seimas of Lithuania, therefore, it has unanimously decided not to send representatives to it....
View ArticleIncoming Chief of Defence: Lithuanian army stopped evolving
BNS Lithuania’s army stopped developing and improving after funding was cut due to the recent recession, incoming Chief of Defence of Lithuania Major General Jonas Vytautas Žukas says. “Funding has...
View ArticleGraužinienė: President is taking blacklist too far
ELTA Parliament Speaker Loreta Graužinienė does not agree with President Dalia Grybauskaitė’s recent questioning of the transparency of deputy ministers. The Seimas speaker believes the president’s...
View ArticleGroup of MPs want Seimas’ seat number reduced to 101
BNS The MPs registered draft constitutional amendments, signed by 36 lawmakers from various political groups, except for representatives of the opposition Liberal Movement. The lawmakers behind the...
View ArticlePM favours idea to cut number of Seimas’ members
BNS The number of members of the parliament in Lithuania could be reduced in response to the ongoing shrinking of the population, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says. “I think the number of...
View ArticleLithuanian passports to include entry on ethnicity
ELTA The Parliament of Lithuania adopted amendments to the Law on Passport on Thursday, allowing an entry about ethnicity in a passport, if the holder submits a written application. Fifty-six members...
View ArticleSeimas to review Nordbalt sea border treaty with Sweden
BNS Lithuania’s government has decided to ask the president to submit the Lithuanian-Swedish maritime boundary treaty to the Seimas (parliament) for ratification. The treaty, which was signed in April,...
View ArticleAmbassador to Ukraine says Malaysian crash is part of “Russian war on Ukraine”
BNS The disaster of Malaysia Airlines jetliner is the consequence of Russia’s undeclared war on Ukraine, and “the plane that has been shot down is full responsibility of Russia,” says Lithuanian...
View ArticleSeimas plans emigration commission
BNS Parliament plans to introduce a commission dedicated to emigration issues this fall, according to Order and Justice Party leader MEP Rolandas Paksas. The initiative was discussed at the meeting of...
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