The European Commission has formally requested that Lithuania ease its national rules on the sale of land to foreigners, which now violate the European Union's free movement of capital and freedom of establishment.
Land sale referendum
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The Lithuanian government is planning to soften the requirements for foreign nationals to purchase agricultural land.
Gediminas Kirkilas, one of the leaders of the ruling Social Democratic Party, Deputy Speaker of the Seimas, who also chairs the Seimas Committee on European Affairs, spoke to TLT/DELFI.lt on the land sale referendum, held on 29 June, which failed due to a record-low turnout. What went wrong - or was...
