Lithuania

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Justina Vaišvilaitė-Braziulienė

The parliamentary commission for inquiry into intelligence activities has officially presented its findings at the Seimas. However, the chairs of the Seimas groups decided on Thursday that the commission’s report will not be voted on until after Easter.

Justina Vaišvilaitė-Braziulienė

The Parliament on Thursday passed a draft law on abandoning 1 and 2 cent coins. The final sum of the basket of goods and services will be rounded once the legislation takes effect on 1 May 2025.

Karolis Broga

Findings of a parliamentary inquiry into the case of the State Security Department’s (VSD) whistleblower Tomas Gailius were published on Tuesday. An ad hoc commission probed how the VSD collected information during the previous presidential election campaign in 2018-2019. MP Vytautas Bakas, who chai...

Karolis Broga

President Gitanas Nausėda has doubts about the findings of an ad hoc parliamentary commission that carried out an inquiry into the case of Tomas Gailius, an employee of the State Security Department (VSD) who raised alarm about the activities of the intelligence agency during the 2019 presidential e...

Justina Vaišvilaitė-Braziulienė

Over twenty organisations raising funds for Ukraine have voiced their support for MP Laurynas Kasčiūnas, current chair of the Seimas security committee, as next defence minister. The move comes after a number of mostly human rights NGOs sent a letter to the president asking not to approve the nomina...

Justina Vaišvilaitė-Braziulienė

Public confidence in President Gitanas Nausėda fell by four percentage points in the first months of this year, the latest poll commissioned by ELTA finds. Despite that, Nausėda remains the most trusted public figure in the country, with a rating of 20.9%.