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A constitutional amendment to allow an individual access to the Lithuanian Constitutional Court on Thursday failed to clear the first hurdle in the parliament.

Lithuanian Prosecutor General Evaldas Pašilis on Thursday will ask the Seimas to strip MP Kėstutis Pūkas of his immunity from criminal prosecution in a pre-trial investigation over allegations of sexual harassment and violation of the rules for keeping firearms.

The Lithuanian parliament on Tuesday asked the Constitutional Court to look at whether it is necessary to amend the Constitution to allow dual citizenship for people who left for EU or NATO member states after Lithuania regained independence in 1990.

The Lithuanian parliament on Tuesday launched impeachment proceedings against Mindaugas Bastys, a member of the Social Democratic political group in the Seimas, over his ties with people working for the benefit of Russia.

Lithuanian parliamentarians intend to turn to the Constitutional Court for yet another interpretation of the possibility to expand the institute of dual citizenship.

Lithuania's Constitutional Court on Friday approved for consideration the case of MP Kestutis Pukas charged with sexual harassment.

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė says she will support the proposals to allow non-Lithuanian characters of the Latin alphabet on the main page of personal documents, if a green light is received form the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language.

he Lithuanian parliament's ad hoc commission has proposed initiating impeachment proceedings against MP Kėstutis Pūkas charged with sexual harassment, the commission's chairperson Dovilė Šakalienė of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union confirmed to BNS.

The Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union, the largest party in the country's parliament, will unanimously vote to strip MP Mindaugas Bastys of the Social Democrats of his MP mandate, says LFGU leader and group elder Ramūnas Karbauskis.

Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius has proposed considering fewer requirements for the referendum on dual citizenship.

“South Africa is more Litvak than Lithuania itself,” Markas Zingeris, the Lithuanian playwright and novelist once remarked. And, as one of very few members of Lithuania’s Jewish community to remain in the country, he would know. The vast majority of Lithuanian Jews have found good reason to leave at...

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Wednesday called on members of the Seimas to respect the Constitution during debates on dual citizenship.

Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis has expressed hope for the Constitutional Court to revise its doctrine and to allow broader dual citizenship possibilities by law rather than amendment of the country's Organic Law.

Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Seimas, sees amendments to the Law on Citizenship as the only possible way of broadening dual citizenship and expects that the Constitutional Court will approve of the move.

Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis sees a proposed bill to broaden dual citizenship as the best way of solving problems faced by Lithuanian citizens abroad, but an advisor to President Dalia Grybauskaitė points out that the Constitutional Court has ruled that legal provisions on citizenship can only ...

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė says her decision on spelling of first and last names of Lithuanian citizens with Latin letters that do not exist in the Lithuanian alphabet will depend on the conclusion of the state language commission.

Lithuanian expat communities suggest solving the dilemma of dual citizenship by allowing persons to preserve their Lithuanian citizenship acquired by birth upon the request.