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Lithuania's Justice Minister Milda Vainiutė and Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius intend to stay in the government, while Economy Minister Mindaugas Sinkevičius is resigning.

If the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) withdraws from the ruling coalition with the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), its ministers and heads of parliamentary committees should step down too, Lithuania's EU commissioner Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis, who is the LSDP's honorary cha...

With an eye on elections, Gintautas Paluckas, chairman of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP), wants to pull his party out of the ruling coalition with Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), Ramūnas Karbauskis, the LFGU chairman, said on Wednesday.

Amid proposals from some branches of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party to withdraw from the ruling coalition, three former leaders – ex-PMs Algirdas Butkevičius and Gediminas Kirkilas, as well as former parliamentary speaker Česlovas Juršėnas – insist that the party should stay in the bloc.

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that the government-proposed tax changes should ensure more social justice, while the current proposals will raise heating prices and the new ceiling on social insurance payments will further increase the income of those making the highest salaries.

Lithuania's ruling coalition is working in a stable and consistent manner, Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis after a meeting of the coalition's political council.

The 9-percent value-added tax (VAT) discount tariff for heating will be reintroduced in Lithuania on a temporary basis between the fall and the end of 2017, Finance Minister Vilius Šapoka said. The discount for 2018 has not yet been specified.

In an effort to attract more investments and protect Lithuania's interest abroad, the government has come up with an idea of replacing commercial attaches working in embassies with specialized envoys of institutions.

Lithuania could become a member of the Extreme Light Infrastructure Delivery Consortium (ELI-DC) by the end of this year, Economy Minister Mindaugas Sinkevičius said.

In Los Angeles, Minister of Economy Mindaugas Sinkevičius visited one of the most advanced global companies — Hyperloop One — which is engaged in creating a new generation transport system. At the meeting, the company’s representatives presented the technology and vision they are working on: to conn...

Trustpilot, considered one of Denmark’s most promising startups, is establishing a product development division in Vilnius. In the next two years, the company, which operates one of the world’s largest online review communities, plans to build a team of approximately 40 software system engineers in ...

Vilnius Vice-Mayor Gintautas Paluckas has been elected as the leader of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party, the country's largest party.

Vilnius Vice-Mayor Gintautas Paluckas and Lithuanian Economy Minister Mindaugas Sinkevičius are facing each other in a run-off election for the post of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) leader as voting starts on Thursday.