Lithuania's parliament will decide whether the state should write down around 100 million euros in compulsory health insurance contributions unpaid by emigrants. If lawmakers back such a proposal, these contributions will no longer be calculated for and recovered from people who left Lithuania.
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Bronius Markauskas is stepping down as Lithuania's agriculture minister amid criticism over his family's farming practices, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Wednesday.
Virginijus Sinkevičius was sworn in as Lithuania's new economy minister in the parliament on Tuesday.
Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Monday appointed Virginijus Sinkevičius , chairman of the parliamentary Economic Committee and a member of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Green Union, as the country's economy minister.
Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė is on Monday meeting with Virginijus Sinkevičius, chairman of the parliamentary Economic Committee who has been nominated for minister of economy.
Lithuania's Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis has confirmed to BNS he had chosen MP Virginijus Sinkevičius, deputy elder of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Green Union group, as candidate for economy minister.
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that there is no rush to find a replacement for Mindaugas Sinkevičius, who last month resigned as economy minister, but adds that he has several candidates for the post.
Officials from the German auto-parts giant Continental, which on Monday announced plans to build in a new factory in Kaunas, wanted to know if people in Lithuania's second-biggest city are tolerant toward foreigners and inquired about the situation with kindergartens in the region, a former Lithuani...
Lithuania's Social Democratic Economy Minister Mindaugas Sinkevičius will remain in his post for another two weeks.
Lithuania's Social Democratic Economy Minister Mindaugas Sinkevičius did not change his mind about resigning from the post after Wednesday's meeting with Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis.
The Lithuanian government has backed a proposal to allow companies and organizations to register their names in all letters of the Latin alphabet, including those that do not exist in the Lithuanian alphabet.
Lithuania's Economy Minister Mindaugas Sinkevičius, a member of the Social Democratic Party (LSDP), on Wednesday urged the party to decide whether it can continue working in municipal coalitions with the Liberal Movement and the Labor Party that last week faced corruption suspicions.
In the wake of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) Council's decision to withdraw from the ruling coalition, some of the party's members in high-ranking ministerial positions have handed in their resignations, but others have opted to stay in their posts.
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Monday that he saw no reason for Social Democratic Economy Minister Mindaugas Sinkevičius to step down, despite the Social Democratic Party's decision to withdraw from the ruling coalition.
After the Social Democratic Party's council on Saturday decided to leave the ruling coalition with the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis decided to call off his plans to visit Georgia.