dual citizenship

The Interior Ministry has proposed to expand the list of cases when minors who have acquired Lithuanian citizenship by birth can also be citizens of another state.

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda has met with Lithuanians living in the United Kingdom and promised that the government will get back to the matter of preserving Lithuanian citizenship for Lithuanian emigrants who became citizens of other countries.

Dalia Henke, chair of the Lithuanian World Community, is proposing expanding separate cases when dual citizenship is possible after the dual citizenship referendum failed in Lithuania in May due to a lack of votes.

Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Seimas, called on Wednesday for continued efforts to amend the Constitution to allow dual citizenship to more Lithuanians.

Some 16,900 people, or 0.7 percent of all eligible voters, cast their ballots on the first day of early voting in Lithuania's presidential election and referendums on dual citizenship and the number of parliament members on Monday.

A public awareness campaign on May's dual citizenship referendum is kicking off in Lithuania on Tuesday.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says a dual citizenship referendum "definitely will be held" alongside the presidential election next year, fearing, however, that it might fail due to a low turnover.

A parliamentary panel on dual citizenship referendum in Lithuania has proposed including Euro-Atlantic safeguards to be enshrined in the country's Constitution.

Lithuania's citizens could decide on reduction of the number of parliamentarians together with the 2019 presidential elections and the referendum on dual citizenship, says Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis.

Lithuania must invest in the teaching profession as the nation's freedom and future depends on teachers, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Thursday.

The Lithuanian parliament's board has decided to set up a task force for preparations for the referendum on broader dual citizenship.

Lithuania cannot lower the minimum turnout threshold for a referendum on dual citizenship, but it can rally politicians and the public to ensure that such a plebiscite takes place, the chief advisor to President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Tuesday.

The Lithuanian Constitutional Court has removed doubts that referendum is the only way of allowing dual citizenship, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said in comment of the Friday's ruling.

The dual citizenship referendum will probably be held in conjunction with the presidential elections in 18 months, says Lithuanian Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis' representative.

Granting dual Lithuanian citizenship to a broader circle of individual sis only possible after changing the Constitution by way of a referendum, the Constitutional Court ruled on Friday.

The existing provisions on dual citizenship limit the free movement of Lithuanian citizens in European Union (EU) countries, which bars full exercise of trans-Atlantic integration, conservative MP Žygimantas Pavilionis told the Constitutional Court on Tuesday.

If the Constitutional Court does not pave way for dual citizenship for Lithuanians who have left for other countries of the European Union (EU) and NATO, politicians will have the duty of holding a referendum on amendments to the country's main law, says Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis.

Lithuania's Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis has given a skeptical view of the initiative registered at the parliament to establish the institute of Passport of Lithuanian, saying the problem should be solved by finally allowing dual citizenship.

The Lithuanian parliament on Tuesday asked the Constitutional Court to look at whether it is necessary to amend the Constitution to allow dual citizenship for people who left for EU or NATO member states after Lithuania regained independence in 1990.