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The new taxes for major retailers and banks, proposed by the ruling parties in Lithuania, could be introduced in the middle of the next year at the earliest, Rima Baskiene, a deputy speaker of the Lithuanian parliament, says.

With the Lithuanian Farmer and Greens Union (LVŽS) congress nearing, “Farmer” leader Ramūnas Karbauskis has spoken to party members, proposing to halve the number of LVŽS deputies. The party chairman would like to not longer have Seimas first Vice Speaker Rima Baškienė and Seimas Vice Speaker Arvyda...

Eugenijus Jovaiša, Mindaugas Puidokas, Robertas Šarknickas and Kęstutis Mažeika are “Farmer” group members, whose names are, according to lrt.lt sources, brought up among the potential candidates to the recently freed minister positions. The “Farmer” leaders do not reveal yet, what candidacies are b...

The ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union Seimas group has called upon Minister of Social Security and Labour Linas Kukuraitis to explain, what children’s rights protection project the cabinet is preparing, lrt.lt writes.

Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LVŽS) deputy chairman, Minister of Economy Virginijus Sinkevičius confirmed to lrt.lt that part of the LVŽS Vilnius city branch has offered him to run for Vilnius mayor in next year’s municipal elections. V. Sinkevičius has not yet revealed whether he would like ...

The Lithuanian parliament's board refused to give the green light for two conservatives MPs, Rasa Juknevičienė and Audronius Ažubalis, to travel to Poland to make speeches at the Krynica Economic Forum in Poland.

The Seimas of Lithuania will hold sittings every day this week before the end of the spring session.

Kęstutis Pūkas, a member of the Lithuanian parliament, calls the Constitutional Court's decision that he breached oath "unjust" and plans to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights.

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.

While the Social Democrat Party branches proceed with consultations over the prospects of continuing work in the ruling coalition with the “Farmers”, the latter may already have come to terms with the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania – Christian Families Union (LLRA-KŠS). “I could neither conf...

Expert conclusions will be requested in connection to the legal amendments that would allow the original spelling of first and last names in ID documents of Lithuanian citizens.