Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda has created a possibility for Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis to take sick leave, if necessary, until October 4, the prime minister's representatives said on Monday.
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Saulius Skvernelis (born 23 July 1970) is a Lithuanian politician who has been Prime Minister of Lithuania since 2016. He is also a member of the Seimas. Previously he served as police commissioner, and he was Minister of the Interior from 2014 to 2016.
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis left to Riga on Friday to meet with the Latvian and Estonian counterparts and mark the 30th anniversary of the Baltic Way, as well as to discuss the situation around the Astravyets nuclear power plant.
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said he underwent a surgery on Monday, the first day of his vacation, but gave no details apart from noting that the procedure was successful.
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis on Tuesday condemned manifestations of ethnic hatred and called on the country's law enforcement to prevent them after the Jewish community spoke of threats.
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union's decision to propose Economy and Innovation Minister Virginijus Sinkevicius as the country's candidate to be a member of the next European Commission was not coordinated with him.
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis has failed to present to President Gitanas Nauseda candidates to his updated government, despite his earlier pledge to do so on Thursday.
Saulius Skvernelis won a confidence vote in the parliament on Tuesday, clearing the way for him to continue as prime minister after returning his Cabinet's powers to the new president.
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis is meeting with Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Simasius on Friday to discuss the future use of a former prison complex in the heart of the capital and funding for a national stadium project.
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says the government is considering broadening the property tax base and taxing polluting cars.
Lithuania's new President Gitanas Nauseda is expected to nominate on Thursday Saulius Skvernelis for reappointment as prime minister by the parliament.
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says more than one ministers will be replaced in the Cabinet's reshuffle, which follows the return of powers to the new president, Gitanas Nauseda.
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis expects that the Energy Ministry's row with Achemos Grupe over plans to transfer Klaipedos Nafta's LNG business to a separate company will not prevent the government from taking decisions that are necessary for cutting the LNG terminal-related burden for ...
Ramunas Karbauskis, leader of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), won a confidence vote by his party's council on Monday evening.
Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis on Tuesday announced his decision to stay in the position, saying that his earlier statements about resignation were driven by "emotions".
After the European Commission recommended on Wednesday that Lithuania broaden its property tax base, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said he does not think that people's primary homes should be taxed.
Lithuanian President-elect Gitanas Nauseda believes that Saulius Skvernelis should stay on as prime minister after his inauguration, but he does not rule out other options.
Saulius Skvernelis will remain Lithuania's prime minister under the coalition memorandum signed by the leaders of three political parties in Lithuania, and the Social Democratic Labor Party of Lithuania will nominate a new Seimas speaker.
Minister of Transport and Communications links complaints levied against himself to his dismissal of Arvydas Vaitkus from the Klaipėda State Seaport Directorate.
Sociologists are already looking into scenarios, which could decide choices in the second round of the presidential elections and the leading candidate supporters’ views, as well as how they are distributed based on social and geographic parameters.
The key task of the Lithuanian president is to deal with the main foreign policy questions and together with the cabinet enact foreign policy.