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Vytautas Bakas, chairman of the parliamentary National Security and Defence Committee, is skeptical about the proposal to remove conservative MP Laurynas Kasčiūnas from the committee after he was questioned in a political corruption investigation.
Lithuania's conservative MP Laurynas Kasčiūnas has no intentions to leave the parliament's National Security and Defence Committee after being questioned as witness in the MG Baltic corruption case, however, will stand aside from the parliamentary inquiry on possibly unlawful influence upon politica...
Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis intends to turn to the parliament's National Security and Defence Committee with a suggestion to check whether conservative MP Laurynas Kasčiūnas can continue working there after being questioned in the MG Baltic corruption case.
Lithuania's Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis has sacked his adviser for energy and environmental matters, Tomas Garasimavičius, who had lost his political confidence.
The Lithuanian Special Investigation Service (STT), the country's main counter-corruption agency, should mainly focus on public procurement in various fields, says Žydrūnas Bartkus, candidate for director of the institution.
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.
The largest opposition groups of the Lithuanian parliament have dismissed the parliamentary vote, which failed to strip MP Mindaugas Bastys of his mandate amid impeachment, as an slap on the face for the State Security Department and the Constitutional Court.
Officers of the Lithuanian State Security Department were satisfied with a verbal answer from impeached MP Mindaugas Bastys about his acquaintance with Piotr Voyeiko, a former KGB agent, therefore, no further probe was conducted, says the MP's lawyer.
Lithuania's parliament is starting the spring session on Saturday – the political season is expected to be hot from the very start, with the parliament scheduled to vote next week on the impeachment of Mindaugas Bastys of the group of non-attached members.
Employees of the Lithuanian migration system were involved in schemes facilitating illegal entry in the country, Interior Minister Eimutis Misiūnas has confirmed.
Rosatom-controlled Nukem, the contractor for the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant's almost-complete decommissioning projects worth hundreds of millions of euros, should no longer be in charge of these projects, the chairman of the Lithuanian parliament's Committee on National Security and Defence, said.
Salaries of troops serving in Lithuania's military should go up by 30 percent within the next four years, officials of the Defence Ministry say, adding that new packages of social benefits have been drafted in an effort to motivate troops to stay in service.
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that the modernization of the Armed Forces is currently more important that universal military conscription, adding that a mandatory enlistment of all young men could be considered after 2020.
Universal conscription of young men to Lithuania's Armed Forces would require about 400 million euros, while conscription of young women would require nearly four times as much, the Defence Ministry said on Wednesday.
The Lithuanian parliament's National Security and Defence Committee on Wednesday heard information from the Special Investigation Service (STT) about possibly unlawful influence of businesses and interest groups upon political processes, however, the committee's chairman Vytautas Bakas refused to el...
A special government commission in Lithuania will be able to vet state-owned and privately-owned strategic enterprises' deals exceeding 10 percent of their annual revenue.