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The Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) and the Liberal Movement on Thursday announced that they will be in the opposition.

After parliamentary election runoff the Social Democratic Party (LSDP) vowed to hold coalition talks not only with Democrats For Lithuania, the Farmers and Greens Union (LVŽS) and the Nemunas Dawn party but also with the Liberal Movement. Yet a representative of the latter, MP Eugenijus Gentvilas, s...

Ramūnas Karbauskis, leader of the opposition Farmers and Greens, says Lithuania’s taxation system is too complex, and residents are unmotivated to pay taxes. The right wing Government’s tax overhaul plan is stalled, leaving potential investors in limbo, he said.

The parliamentary opposition intends to address the Chief Official Ethics Commission (VTEK) over the much-debated private trip of Minister of Social Security and Labour Monika Navickienė to Dubai last year.

President Gitanas Nausėda says two individuals were detained in Poland as suspects in attacking Russian opposition figure Leonid Volkov in Vilnius.

Director of the National Crisis Management Centre (NKVC) Vilmantas Vitkauskas describes the assault on Russian opposition representative Leonid Volkov in Vilnius as a well planned and professional operation. He told public radio LRT on Thursday that this was the first such case of political terroris...

Lithuania’s State Security Department (VSD) believes that Tuesday’s attack on Russian citizen Leonid Volkov, former chairman of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), was likely organised and carried out by Russia. He was assaulted and beaten outside his home in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, suf...

Law enforcement says that a large police force responded to a report on Tuesday about an attack in Vilnius on Leonid Volkov, a colleague of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis and Finance Minister Vilius Sapoka refused on Thursday to answer written questions from the opposition.

The constructive opposition should also support the reforms prepared by the ruling coalition, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said after meeting the Seimas board on Wednesday.

The President and the new government have stressed a number of times that one of the greatest tasks for next year would be to reduce social segregation. The 2017 budget allocates over half a billion euro to social needs. The Prime Minister promises larger pensions, wages are to rise for educators, p...

The sort of cooperation found between the Liberal Movement (LS) and Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) during the 2008-2012 term will definitely not be appearing in this Seimas term and such fragmentation will only benefit the ruling coalition states political scientist Vytauta...

Lithuania's opposition lawmakers say that next year's budget drafted by the outgoing government is "a semi-finished product" that should not be taken seriously.