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Lithuania's Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis sees the October parliamentary elections, which changed the country's political map, as the most important 2016 event in the country, noting that the terrorist attacks in Europe were the most important worldwide.
Raimundas Karoblis’ name has so far not been well known in Lithuania. A career diplomat with over 20 years of experience, he himself was surprised by the proposal to become Minister of National Defence. He is inheriting a ministry with both an impressively rising budget and at the same time – the ta...
Seimas Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis supports the re-introduction of military training at schools, an idea raised by Ramūnas Karbauskis, chairman of the ruling Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU).
Ramūnas Karbauskis, chairman of the ruling Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU), says that lawmakers' vacations must be formally regulated by law and that this issue will be addressed while reviewing the Seimas Statute.
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė backs the Peasant and Green Union's initiative to hold the next parliamentary elections half a year earlier.
Specialized retail stores for alcoholic beverages could be opened in Lithuania in 2018, Health Minister Aurelijus Veryga said.
The ruling Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union's idea of changing the date of parliamentary elections and curtail the current parliament's term by six months has caused major doubts among other parliamentarians.
A Constitutional amendment has been registered at the Lithuanian parliament, suggesting to lower the number of parliamentarians from the current 141 to 101 and move parliamentary elections from October to March.
A general reserve of national defence should be prepared in Lithuania's education institutions, namely, schools and universities, says the ruling Peasant and Green Union's leader Ramūnas Karbauskis who heads the parliamentary Culture Committee.
The new cabinet chancellor Milda Dargužaitė says she has come to reform state governance and is aware that she can expect much resistance. During a Tuesday Delfi conference on December 20, M. Dargužaitė spoke about reducing staff numbers and raising wages in the state sector without requiring extra ...
The Lithuanian parliament has left the reduced 9-percent VAT rate on district heating in place until May 31, 2017, which means that district heating bills will not rise in January.
The current legislative term in Lithuania will be half a year shorter than usual as the next parliamentary elections are likely to be held in the spring of 2020, the chairman of the ruling Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU) said on Tuesday.
The reduced 9-percent VAT rate on district heating will remain in place until next June, the chairman of the ruling Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU) said on Monday, admitting that municipalities have forced them to drop, at least for now, the idea of raising the rate to the standard 21 perc...
Ramūnas Karbauskis, chairman of the ruling Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU), says that he will propose that the party's political group at the parliament should support the president's veto of amendments to the Civil Code on insulting public figures.
Raising the reduced 9-percent VAT rate on district heating to the standard 21-percent rate is an untimely and improper move, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Monday.
“I definitely would not have taken this position had it just been for maintaining the bureaucracy. I am definitely not the most suitable person for that. I am entering from outside in order to make changes. The most important reforms we have in mind are increasing the effectiveness of institutions, ...
