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MP Linas Balsys has registered legislative amendments to ban the use of the controversial weedkiller glyphosate in Lithuania.

A group of Lithuanian lawmakers are proposing introducing a ban on growing animals for fur, introducing a transition period for fur farmers until the end of 2025.

Linas Balsys is leaving the group of non-attached members of the Lithuanian parliament to join the political group of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) in the Seimas.

Lithuanian MP Linas Balsys has returned to work after a break of over a month, saying that he has undergone medical treatment.

The Lithuanian Center Party headed by MP Naglis Puteikis has for the first time passed the Liberal Movement on the popularity poll, ranking among the country's four most popular parties, shows a survey conducted by RAIT pollster for BNS news agency.

Lithuania's law-enforcement have dropped the investigation into the allegations that MP Linas Balsys drove under the influence of alcohol, as officers failed to collect enough evidence to validate his guilt, prosecutor Egidijus Motiejūnas told BNS.

The popularity of Visvaldas Matijošaitis, mayor of Lithuania's second-largest city Kaunas, continues growing, shows a poll published in Lietuvos Rytas daily on Saturday.

The majority of Lithuania's residents are unhappy with the parliament's performance over the first year after the 2016 parliamentary elections, shows a survey conducted by RAIT pollster for BNS news agency.

Vilnius police on Monday opened a pre-trial investigation into suspicions that MP Linas Balsys was driving under the influence of alcohol.

Linas Balsys, a Lithuanian lawmaker who appeared to be drunk when he left the parliament building in his car last week, is currently under the care of doctors and those close to him, his family said on Tuesday.

Lithuania's Interior Minister Eimutis Misiūnas has pledged to look into the reasons why the police was notified about the allegedly drunken condition of MP Linas Balsys after he had already left the parliament building by car, also planning to find out why the security let him leave.

The leadership of the Lithuanian Seimas want to call the police to the parliament building in Vilnius over suspicions that MP Linas Balsys is drunk.

In response to remarks by a Lithuanian lawmaker, the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry said on Monday that it is not questioning the status of Russia's Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad.

Human rights expert Dovilė Šakalienė who was invited into Seimas by the Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union (LPGU) shared an open statement on her Facebook profile regarding amendments to the artificial insemination law.

Four week cycle of Seimas electoral debates has commenced. Politicians will be discussing the topics of economics, demographics, justice and social politics. The leaders of Lithuanian parties or their representatives will be engaged in live debates, trying to attract potential voters. The first deba...

Several dozen of people gathered in the Town Hall Square in Vilnius on Tuesday urged Belarus to release political prisoners and ensure civil rights in the country.