bilingual street signs

A Vilnius court has overruled the plea from the government's representative to list street signs in foreign language in Vilnius as illegal.

A Vilnius court on Monday opened hearings into the bilingual street signs in the Lithuanian capital. The government's representative says that non-Lithuanian signs run counter to the law and may instigate hatred, while the municipality maintains the signs are merely a decorative element.

Vilda Vaičiūnienė, the Lithuanian government's representative in the Vilnius county, has turned to court to prove that the decorative bilingual street signs in Vilnius had been put up illegally.