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Gas, electricity and heating prices are rising. After paying up to 20% more for utilities during winter, the people will be electing their new municipal governments already in spring, as well as their representatives to the European Parliament. Lrt.lt questions - will the citizens, especially the “b...
Prior to starting deliberations regarding changes on the number of members of Seimas, Liberal Movement Seimas group prefect Eugenijus Gentvilas presented a resolution to the Seimas “Over the constant attempts to change the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania.” With this, it was proposed to for...
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė remains the most influential politician in the country, the delfi.lt news website reports.
Irena Degutienė, a long-standing member of the opposition conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, does not plan to stand for election during the upcoming elections in Lithuania, and is also considering retiring from politics altogether.
Vytautas Bakas, chairman of the parliamentary National Security and Defence Committee, is skeptical about the proposal to remove conservative MP Laurynas Kasčiūnas from the committee after he was questioned in a political corruption investigation.
Lithuania's conservative MP Laurynas Kasčiūnas has no intentions to leave the parliament's National Security and Defence Committee after being questioned as witness in the MG Baltic corruption case, however, will stand aside from the parliamentary inquiry on possibly unlawful influence upon politica...
Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis intends to turn to the parliament's National Security and Defence Committee with a suggestion to check whether conservative MP Laurynas Kasčiūnas can continue working there after being questioned in the MG Baltic corruption case.
Four opposition groups of the Lithuanian parliament have suggested holding premature parliamentary elections.
A delegation of Lithuanian parliamentarians headed by Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis is leaving for Warsaw on Wednesday to celebrate 100 years of Lithuania's restored statehood.
Lithuania's ruling coalition agreed to recognize that the conservatives' bid to raise wages for trainee doctors was adopted, therefore, the opposition agreed to return to the plenary room.
Lawmakers of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU) propose to allow the use of medicines containing cannabis.
Several Lithuanian lawmakers proposed on Friday to launch a discussion on legalizing medical cannabis for treating cancer patients and other severely ill people.
President Dalia Grybauskaitė, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis and Ramūnas Karbauskis, chairman of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), are ranked as Lithuania's most influential politicians, the Delfi.lt news website reported, citing the results of two separate opinion polls.
