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Public activist and TV host Andrius Tapinas continues his transparency campaign concerning politicians’ expense allowances. After examining spending on expenses by municipal councillors last year, he has moved to checking how members of parliament spend their expense allowances.
A survey has shown that more than half of Lithuanian residents believe that the country's business environment lacks transparency.
One third of Lithuanian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have tried to influence political decisions in the last two years, but less than half (46%) made those attempts public, according a survey of NGO representatives commissioned by the Lithuanian branch of Transparency International (TILS).
An international transparency NGO is calling for more information on lobbying, links to business and party financing to be made public in Lithuania.
Lithuania's corruption levels are more similar to a Soviet state than an EU country, because the extent of bribery in Lithuania is still a major problem, according to Sergėjus Muravjovas, the head of the Transparency International bureau in Lithuania.
The Lithuanian branch of Transparency International (TILS), an international anti-corruption watchdog, has proposed a range of new measures to make Lithuanian political parties more transparent. They include requirements to publish more information about their financing and to impose stricter sancti...
