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The chairman of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LVŽS) registered on Thursday a draft Seimas resolution that calls for a new parliamentary investigation into unlawful influence on political processes during the tenure of two previous governments.
Lithuania might need to increase its defense spending by several dozen million euros this year to reach NATO's defense standard of 2 percent GDP, new figures show.
Lithuania's parliamentary Committee on National Security and Defense has decided to overhaul the Law on Lustration ensuring protection of the former KGB agents and providing for exceptions.
Lithuania's parliamentary Committee on National Security and Defense is in favor of granting the Baltic religious society Romuva state recognition after it was ruled that the society poses no threat to national security.
Lithuania's parliament is on Wednesday scheduled to vote on raising pay for soldiers.
Vytautas Bakas, chairman of the parliament's Committee on National Security and Defense (NSGK), threatened on Friday to leave the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union's political group in the Seimas if it launches a new parliamentary investigation.
A Vilnius court on Friday prohibited Vytautas Bakas, chairman of the Lithuanian parliament's Committee on National Security and Defense (NSGK), from calling MG Baltic, one of the country's largest business groups, as "an organized criminal group".
The ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union's (LVŽS) political group in the Seimas has decided to initiate a new parliamentary investigation into links between politics and business as a follow-up to a probe conducted the Committee on National Security and Defense (NSGK).
A dispute has on Thursday erupted in the Lithuanian parliament over a proposal to publish information on people who admitted to have collaborated with the KGB, with the parliamentary opposition warning of the Kremlin's interest.
A high-profile corruption case has revealed an "unseen Lithuania" where efforts are continuing to sell the state and take control of it, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said in her annual State of the Nation Address to the Seimas on Tuesday.
Raimondas Šukys, a minister in several former Lithuanian governments, has taken the State Security Department, or VSD, to court over the intelligence agency's claim that people from MG Baltic, one of the country's largest business groups, exerted influence on him.
The DV and Media Day of exercises Thunder Storm 2018 and Saber Strike 2018 will take place at the Lithuanian Armed Forces General Silvestras Žukauskas Training Area in Švenčionys District, eastern Lithuania, on Monday.
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė describes a recently completed parliamentary investigation into interest groups' influence on political processes as "a political opinion of the Seimas" with no legal implications and waits for concrete proposals.