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Lithuania, as if a hopeless romantic and naïve person constantly lives in cycles of constant waiting, disappointment and new hope. We are now at the starting phase of a new cycle – the presidential elections.

The president’s advisor Mindaugas Lingė was mistaken calling the ruling “Farmer” initiative to gather signatures on a referendum on reducing the number of members of Seimas as having a populist shade.

Claims that Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė in 2015 discussed candidates for the job of prosecutor general with MG Baltic, one of the country's biggest business groups, are untrue and mislead the public, a presidential advisor said on Monday.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė is calling on the Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT) Council to elect the public broadcaster's next director general in an open vote.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė calls on members of the Seimas to come together for joint work as she does not think that it is possible to hold an early parliamentary election, her adviser said on Tuesday.

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė will propose legal amendments, calling for open selection of specialists hired to the public sector under employment contracts, the President's Office said on Wednesday.

Lithuania's budget for the next year is more socially sensitive and responsible, says Mindaugas Lingė, senior interior policy adviser to President Dalia Grybauskaitė.

With the National Agreement signed among the Lithuanian government, trade unions and employers on Monday features, the Cabinet made unilateral commitments to businesses, says presidential adviser Mindaugas Lingė, adding that businesses took on no major obligations.

The Lithuanian president's office does not comment and calls on others to refrain from comments on the ongoing dispute between France's Veolia and Lithuania in the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) in Washington.

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė has signed the parliament-approved bill on lobbyist operations into law.

The Lithuanian president's office sees no major drawbacks in the government's proposed tax changes aimed at increasing the poorest people's income and expects constructive discussions on the plan, an advisor to President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis sees a proposed bill to broaden dual citizenship as the best way of solving problems faced by Lithuanian citizens abroad, but an advisor to President Dalia Grybauskaitė points out that the Constitutional Court has ruled that legal provisions on citizenship can only ...

Lithuania's new government must streamline the network of universities and other higher education institutions amid a rapid decrease in student numbers, an advisor to President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Tuesday.

Seimas Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis met with President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Monday to discuss further cooperation. Assistant to the head of state Mindaugas Lingė states that the currently most pressing task is to balance next year’s budget.

The Lithuanian government has failed to use the past four years for the state's progress, an advisor to President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Tuesday.

Healthcare Minister Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė has been urged to step down for a "variety of reasons" that are not only to do with corruption in the healthcare system, says advisor to the Lithuanian president Mindaugas Lingė.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė will deliver her State of the Nation Address in the Seimas on Thursday, evaluating the country's internal and foreign policies.

An adviser to Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Tuesday commended the results of the conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats' chairperson election, saying that such a renewal could become an example for other political parties as well. In weekend's vote, the conservativ...