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The Constitutional Court has ruled that the absence of same-sex partnership in the Civil Code contradicts the Lithuanian Constitution. Parliament Speaker Saulius Skvernelis afterwards stated that the Government should prepare a relevant draft law in order to solve the issue, but Prime Minister Ginta...
Lithuania’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the absence of same-sex partnership in the Civil Code violates the Constitution. Seimas Speaker Saulius Skvernelis thus hopes the issue to be resolved in the current term of office.
The Constitutional Court ruled Thursday the absence of legislation on same-sex partnerships is in conflict with the Constitution. Following this ruling, same-sex couples can apply to court to register their partnership, it said.
Three MPs from the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrat party (TS-LKD) have proposed that this spring parliament should consider a draft law on civil union, which would regulate relations between unmarried couples, including same-sex partners. Yet the party’s new leader Laurynas Kasčiūnas, f...
Several MPs from the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrat party (TS-LKD) have suggested that the bill on civil union would be included in the agenda of parliament’s spring session, which begins on 10 March. The much-debated bill would regulate relationships between unmarried couples, includi...
The Parliament of Lithuania, the Seimas, has included the much-debated bill on civil union in its autumn session agenda. President Gitanas Nausėda thinks that this may be the last opportunity for some parties to live up to their promises and implement their election programme. Same-sex partnership i...
Lithuania’s foreign minister hopes that MPs will draw conclusions from neighbouring Latvia recognising same-sex partnership. Now Lithuania is the only Baltic country that still has not adopted the law on same-sex partnership, unlike Estonia and Latvia.
Latvia adopted the same-sex partnership law on 9 November, but leader of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LVŽS) Ramūnas Karbauskis warns Lithuania not to follow the neighbouring country’s example. He fears that now LGBT couples in Latvia will strive for family status and child adoption.
Couples, including gays and lesbians, will be "married" by a humanoid robot in a mock ceremony planned to be staged outside the Lithuanian government's building in Vilnius on St. Valentine's Day.
Lithuania's government will Wednesday discuss the possibility for persons living in cohabitation to regulate their relationship by contracts of joint operations.
Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė this week signed an amendment moving the European Union's (EU) directive to the national law, however, not granting family rights to partners.
Partners were deleted from the definition of family members at the Lithuanian parliament following this week's discussions to shift the European Union's (EU) directive to ban discrimination on grounds of citizenship.
Amid renewed discussions in the Lithuanian parliament on legalization of same-sex partnerships, BNS asked the country's leaders if they would approve of such a move.
Lithuania's opposition Liberal Movement proposes to allow civil partnerships for both unmarried opposite-sex couples and same-sex couples.
Some 11 percent of Lithuanian residents support registration of same-sex partnerships, while 7 percent of those polled support the possibility for homosexuals to enter into marriage, shows a poll.
If ordinary members of Lithuania's next parliament back the ideas of their leaders, the country may adopt a historic decision to legalize homosexual relations within the next four years.
Winds of tolerance and human rights appear to be blowing in the run up to the Seimas elections. A highlight of a Tuesday discussion at the Loftas venue, organised by the initiative “Žinau, ką renku” (I know who I’m voting for), was Seimas candidate responses to the question of LGBT rights, with the ...
Lithuania's government on Thursday gave approval to the changes proposed by the Justice Ministry to the Civil Code which would legalize civil partnership of opposite-sex couples.
