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The state could recover estimated 1.5 billion euros in alleged damage done by business groups' influence on political processes, Vytautas Bakas, chairman of the Committee on National Security and Defense (NSGK), says following the committee's investigation.

The leaders of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LVŽS) on Thursday called for new investigations into businesses' influence on politics.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė hopes the parliamentary Committee on National Security and Defense's conclusions regarding business groups' influence on politicians will lead to amendments and new instruments to make political processes more transparent.

The Seimas of Lithuanian's Committee on National Security and Defence [NSGK] probe into business groups' influence on politics leave an impression of selectiveness and fragmentation, Gabrielius Landsbergis, leader of the opposition Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats [TS-LKD], says.

The damage of MG Baltic deals and the Leo LT story to the State of Lithuania could be worth "millions of euros", therefore, attempts will be made to recover the money, Vytautas Bakas, chairman of the Lithuanian parliamentary Committee on National Security and Defense, says.

Lithuania must make principled decisions and "clean" the county of companies incompatible with national security interests, Vytautas Bakas, chairman of the Seimas Committee on National Security and Defense [NSGK] says.

Russian nuclear energy construction giant Rosatom and Lithuania's MG Baltic business group, owned by Darius Mockus, have joint interests in the upcoming multimillion project on the construction of Ignalina nuclear plant's disposal facility, the Lithuanian Seimas' Committee on National Security and D...

The Lithuanian parliament's Committee on National Security and Defense (NSGK) completed on Wednesday its investigation into business and interest groups' influence on political processes and decision-makers.

Journalist Tomas Dapkus says he named Lithuanian State Security Department (VSD) officials, who he claims are taking revenge on him by reporting defamatory information, during his testimony before the Seimas Committee on National Security and Defense (NSGK) on Wednesday.

The European Commission proposes to allocate 552 million euros at current prices in the EU's 2021-2027 budget for the decommissioning of Lithuania's Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP).

Lithuania has asked Belarus to provide it, as soon as possible, with detailed information about an incident that occurred on the Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant site on Feb. 17.

A group of members of the European Parliament is coming to Lithuania this week to inquire about decommissioning projects of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (NPP).

Lithuania's Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis has sacked his adviser for energy and environmental matters, Tomas Garasimavičius, who had lost his political confidence.

The chairman of the Lithuanian parliament's Committee on National Security and Defence says that he will support the opposition's proposal to hold early elections in June.

Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis has pledged to seek ways to repeat the vote in the impeachment of MP Mindaugas Bastys that came a few votes short on Tuesday.

Lithuania's decommissioned Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) has confirmed a slightly higher level of radioactivity of a small share of waste established during the hot tests of the new solid radioactive waste storage complex (project B2/ 3/4), noting that this would not have an effect upon the pri...