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The Intelligence Ombudsman’s Office intends to look into how intelligence authorities collect and verify information related to the 2024 elections.

MP Ieva Kačinskaitė-Urbonienė on Thursday night announced that she is withdrawing from the Labour Party. The politician wrote in a post on social network Facebook that she is leaving the party as their positions on key issues differ extremely.

Frederikas Jansonas, chief adviser on communication to President Gitanas Nausėda, claims that the head of state did not provide answers to a parliamentary commission because doing so would have legitimised the politicised inquiry. A parliamentary commission had been set up to examine if the State Se...

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.

The Seimas group of the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) has decided to nominate MP Arvydas Pocius, former chief of defence, as chair of the Committee on National Security and Defence (NSGK).

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.

Conservative MP Arvydas Anušauskas, former minister of national defence, suggests that Conservative MP Arvydas Pocius, former chief of defence, would be appointed as chairman of the Seimas Committee on National Security and Defence.

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...

Gitanas Nausėda started meeting with some Belarusian fertiliser companies months before he was elected president, a parliamentary inquiry finds. The president later actively sought that Belarusian fertilisers would not be sanctioned, it said.

Lithuania’s new Minister of National Defence Laurynas Kasčiūnas took oath in parliament on Tuesday, 26 March.

On Monday, MP Laurynas Kasčiūnas was interviewed by the Special Investigation Service (STT), which is probing alleged corruption in the defence sector. Kasčiūnas, chairman of the Seimas Committee on National Security and Defence, is the candidate to replace Minister of National Defence Arvydas Anuša...

The Board of the Seimas has tightened the procedure for the use of parliamentary allowances amid criticism leveled at a number of MPs for overspending. Seimas Speaker Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen says more steps will certainly come to improve the regulation.

Members of parliament have decided to dismiss Secretary General of the Seimas Modestas Gelbūda.

President Gitanas Nausėda will decide later this week on the candidacy of MP Laurynas Kasčiūnas for the defence minister’s post. Incumbent Minister of National Defence Arvydas Anušauskas announced his resignation last Friday.

Seimas Speaker Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen believes outgoing Defence Minister Arvydas Anušauskas should not be appointed chair of the Seimas Committee on National Security and Defence (NSGK). His recent statements threw an unnecessary shadow of suspicion on public procurement in the defence system, sh...

Gambling operators should be obliged to allocate at least half of their advertising budgets to social and preventive advertising, an MP has said.

President Gitanas Nausėda welcomes the proposal of a group of MPs to ban the import of agricultural goods and feed originating in Russia or Belarus.

A group of MPs from various political groups proposes suspending imports to Lithuania of agricultural products and feed whose country of origin is Russia or Belarus.

MP Justas Džiugelis has suspended his membership at the ruling Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democratic (TS-LKD) party and left the party’s group at the Seimas amid reports of his ties to a gambling lobbyist.

The Ministry of National Defence suggests eliminating conscription exemptions for students so they could not postpone their military service. Yet there are the opposite initiatives in parliament. MP Artūras Žukauskas, chair of the Seimas Committee on Education and Science, believes that university s...