National Defence Minister Arvydas Anušauskas has been awarded the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, third class, by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who signed the respective decree on Thursday.
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Seimas Speaker Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen, on behalf of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania and on her own behalf, has congratulated Ukraine and its people on the occasion of Independence Day, the Office of the Seimas said in a press release.
Lithuania will legalise the right to marry for same-sex couples sooner or later, says Seimas Speaker Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen in her comment on Estonia’s move.
MP Remigijus Žemaitaitis continues to share anti-Jewish statements despite previous outrage from international community and has accused Jews of carrying out a ‘holocaust of Lithuanians’.
The annual ceremony of hoisting the national flag to mark the Day of Mourning and Hope took place in Independence Square in front of the Seimas on Wednesday.
Seimas Speaker Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen nominates Lina Petronienė as the head the Central Electoral Commission (VRK).
Seimas Speaker Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen says she has doubts whether the parliamentary parties will be able to sign an agreement on foreign policy in the spring session of the Seimas.
The Conservative leader’s invitation to coalition partners to discuss the Cabinet’s future and possibility of early elections is a rational one, Seimas Speaker Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen says.
Voters continue to view incumbent President Gitanas Nausėda as the most realistic winner of the 2024 presidential election, the latest opinion poll commissioned by the news website Delfi shows.
As a bid to remove Speaker of the Seimas Viktoras Pranckietis failed on Tuesday, Ramunas Karbauskis, leader of the Lithuanian Farmers and Green Union, acknowledges that it's no longer clear if the ruling parties have a majority.
Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Viktoras Pranckietis has survived a second no-confidence vote as members of the ruling block failed to garner the necessary number of votes on Tuesday.
Ramunas Karbauskis, the leader of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union, says Remigijus Zemaitaitis, the Order and Justice Party's leader, "betrayed" the ruling bloc when he backed on Tuesday an initiative to call an emergency plenary sitting to vote on Viktoras Pranckietis' removal as the ...
A vote on the removal of Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Viktoras Pranckietis failed on Tuesday after only a few MPs attended.
The Board of the Lithuanian Seimas is set to hold an emergency meeting on Tuesday night to discuss the removal of Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis.
The ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union has decided to delegate Ramunas Karbauskis, its chairman, to the Seimas leadership, but is not clear yet if he will seek the speaker's chair or that of vice-speaker.
Lithuania's former President Dalia Grybauskaite describes the Farmers and Greens Union's pressure on Viktoras Pranckietis to step down as the speaker of the Seimas as "a fiesta of political petty-mindedness".
Ramunas Karbauskis, the leader of the ruling Farmers and Greens Union, has confirmed that he offered the backing of his political group to Viktorija Cmilyte-Nielsen if the opposition Liberal Movement's leader agreed to run for speaker of the Seimas.
