Raising corporate tax for large businesses could be a solution to finance defence needs, says Social Democratic Party leader Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, rejecting proposals to increase the value added tax (VAT) rate as harmful to low-income earners.
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Incumbent President Gitanas Nausėda has the highest approval rating of all Lithuanian politicians, the latest public opinion poll shows.
Politics does not stand in place, change is a near constant even if the changes are often insignificant. New political parties emerge, draw voters for a few years and then vanish. The Way of Courage, the National Revival Party, A. Paulauskas’ New Union, the Modern Christian Democrat Union, the Lithu...
Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, is leading the race for the nomination by Lithuania's Social Democratic Party (LSDP) in the country's presidential election, the party revealed on Monday.
At the initiative of MEP Antanas Guoga, 27 MEPs have called on the CEO of Amazon Inc. Jeff Bezos in an open letter, urging to cease sale of goods featuring Soviet symbols on the Amazon online shopping platform. The appeal was signed by MEPs from Lithuania, Poland, the Netherlands, Germany, Croatia, ...
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė remains the most influential politician in the country, the delfi.lt news website reports.
Social Democrat Vilija Blinkevičiūtė continues to rank as the most active Lithuanian member of the European Parliament and Waldemar Tomaszewski, leader of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania–Christian Families Alliance (EAPL-CFA), remains the least active, the daily Lietuvos Žinios reported o...
The opposition Social Democratic Party of Lithuania is calling for the ratification of the Council of Europe's Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention), the party's resolution, adopted on Saturday, states.
