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Leaders of Lithuania have congratulated the people and top officials of the neighboring Poland on Independence Day.

Reform of the social model is vital, Lithuania's Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius restated a few times at the final meeting of the 2012-2016 parliament on Thursday.

Four members of the Lithuanian Social Democrat Party (LSDP) negotiation group released a public statement on Wednesday, right before the signing of the coalition agreement with the Peasant and Greens Union. The statement declares that some of the actions of the party Chairman Algirdas Butkevičius an...

The Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU) and the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) announced that the coalition agreement has been almost reached and will most likely be signed tomorrow, on November 9, the LPGU Chairman Ramūnas Karbauskis announced today.

The Lithuanian Social Democrat Party (LSDP) Chairman Algirdas Butkevičius claims that in their negotiations with the Lithuanian Peasant and Greens (LVŽS) party, his party did not demand four cabinet seats.

On Monday the winner of this year’s Seimas election, the Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union (LVŽS) and the Lithuanian Social Democrat Party (LSDP) worked on merging their programmes and decided on the number of ministries each party can expect in the future cabinet, with 11 going to the LVŽS and th...

Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius attempted to resign from party leadership, but the party did not permit this. Nevertheless Social Democrat Honorary Chairman Aloyzas Sakalas says that Butkevičius does not remind him of a Social Democrat.

Social Democratic Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius sees a good chance of reaching a deal with the Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU) on a new ruling coalition, but says that he is worried about the winning party's pre-election proposals that would boost next year's budget deficit if implem...

The leader of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party, outgoing Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius, says he had sensed pressure from President Dalia Grybauskaitė upon voters for more than a year to not support the Social Democrats, accusing her of failing to pass the test of impartiality.

The Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU) and the Social Democratic Party (LSDP) agreed on Monday to start working on a coalition government programme.

The Social Democrats have chosen to begin negotiations on a coalition with the “Peasants.” In the aftermath of all that has been said in the week after the elections it looks logical. You could suspect that both the Conservatives and Social Democrats found it hard to cope with the idea of being the ...

The victors of this year’s election to Seimas, the Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union (LVŽS) is beginning negotiations with the Lithuanian Social Democrat Party (LSDP) on building a new cabinet. While there is no coalition agreement yet, it is already becoming clearer who will take what officers in...

Lithuania's Social Democratic Party will probably decide to enter into coalition negotiations with the Peasant and Green Union, says the party's chairman, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius, adding he will also be part of the negotiating team.

Social Democratic Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that his party will not hinder the Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU), which scored a resounding victory in the recent parliamentary elections, in their efforts to form a new ruling coalition.