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Parliament Speaker Loreta Graužinienė disagrees with President Dalia Grybauskaitė's proposal to establish a new institution to ensure care for social risk families in response to the tragic events in Kėdainiai district.

On 1 January 2016, Vilnius residents and guests will be able to attend a solemn ceremony on Gediminas Tower to mark the day in 1919 when the Lithuanian tricolour flag used today was first flown.

With less than a year left until the Seimas (parliament) elections, the Labour Party is not planning to ask Loreta Graužinienė to leave the Seimas speaker‘s position. However, not only the opposition, but some MPs from the ruling coalition are dissatisfied with the politician.

The Lithuanian Seimas snubbed Vytautas Landsbergis, chairman of the Supreme Council of Lithuania (the reconstituent Seimas) and signatory of the Independence Restoration Act, when it voted to deny him the 2015 Freedom Prize on 24 November. Now, however, the Public Council under the Commission for th...

Seimas Speaker Loreta Graužinienė believes that Vytautas Landsbergis - who was the first head of the restored and independent Republic of Lithuania, the chairman of the Supreme Council of Lithuania, and a signatory of the Independence Restoration Act - should have been awarded with the very first Fr...

A feud between Parliament Speaker Loreta Graužinienė and Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis that began last week have evoked reactions from online petitioners. One petition urges to keep Skvernelis in his post, while another calls for the parliament speaker's resignation.

Lithuania‘s police officers have expressed their support for Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis who handed his letter of resignation to the prime minister on Friday, following criticism by Parliament Speaker Loreta Graužinienė and President Dalia Grybauskaitė. The Lithuanian Department of the Inte...

Lithuania's draft budget for 2016 allows for conservative optimism, says Loreta Graužinienė, speaker of the Seimas. According to the parliament's leader, there is no risk that budget spending would exceed income in 2016 more than projected.

After a meeting with Parliament Speaker Loreta Graužinienė, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has said that the Lithuanian parliament's autumn session could be extended to adopt the new social model.

During her meeting on Tuesday with representatives of the Lithuanian World Community, Seimas Speaker Loreta Graužinienė noted that, in her opinion, Lithuania's election system should be changed by 2020, while the first ones to try out e-voting should be Lithuanians residing abroad.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė has accused the parliament of being influenced by interest groups when it voted down two candidates proposed for the post of prosecutor general. Parliament Speaker Loreta Graužinienė says there will not be another vote until all suspicions are cleared.

MP Artūras Paulauskas, head of the Seimas Committee on National Security and Defence, says that parliamentary groups of Lithuania have agreed that the country will draft conscripts in 2020-2021. Under current agreement, military draft was introduced for the period between 2015 and 2020.

After a quadruple murder in the town of Kražiai, western Lithuania, where a man stabbed four women to death, Lithuanian politicians point fingers at excessive alcohol consumption as the culprit.

Speaker of the Lithuanian parliament Loreta Graužinienė believes that military conscription must be kept beyond the five years it has been reinstated.

Heads of political groups in the Seimas, the Parliament of Lithuania, on Wednesday met with Speaker of the Seimas Loreta Graužinienė to discuss the implementation of the Constitutional Court's ruling on the size of electoral constituencies. A decision was reached that the parliamentary election syst...

MEP Viktor Uspaskich, the founder and de facto leader of Lithuania's Labour Party, has criticized fellow party member Loreta Graužinienė, the speaker of the Lithuanian parliament, for her "passivity", warning that "life does not end in the Seimas speaker chair" in reference to Graužinienė's future p...

Lithuanian Parliament Speaker Loreta Graužinienė believes that the decision to temporarily reintroduce military conscription should extended indefinitely.

Journalist Rosvaldas Gorbačiovas has become the advisor for public relations to the Lithuanian Parliament Speaker Loreta Graužinienė.

There a lack of inter-institutional cooperation in Lithuania as the Baltic country prepares to receive refugees, Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Loreta Graužinienė said on Monday after her visit to the Refugees Reception Centrė in Rukla, central Lithuania.

A delegation led by Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Loreta Graužinienė will go to Germany in October to discuss the refugee situation.