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Lithuania's parliament (Seimas) has adopted amendments to allow members of the Lithuanian Riflemen's Union and volunteer troops to purchase semi-automatic guns and cartridges and to keep them in their homes. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.
About 300 people organized by Lithuanian trade unions gathered to protest the new Labour Code, which critics say will narrow the social benefits for employees. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.
The Lithuanian parliament (Seimas) has passed a set of legal amendments design to prevent gender-based discrimination in the workplace and to make existing Lithuanian discrimination laws more similar to European Union law. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.
A conference to be held in the parliament (Seimas) will review Lithuania's law against domestic violence, which was passed five years ago, how it has worked, and how it might be changed. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.
Events in Lithuania have begun to commemorate Lithuania's Day of Mourning and Hope, which is held every year on 14 June. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.
Lithuanian Labour Party MP Vytautas Gapšys dismissed government investigators' suspicions that he had taken a €25,000 bribe from MG Baltic vice-president Raimondas Kurlianskis. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.
Lithuania's state-owned companies operate inefficiently, pay no dividends to the state, their funds are used to purchase media outlets, and they serve as "havens for unemployed party members", President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Thursday.
The Ministry of the Interior has a new legal proposal that would lead to a reduction of speeding tolerances to 5kmh over the speed limit and to an increase in fines for every kmh over the limit from €2 to €5 for certain speeds.
Reducing the requirements for a referendum on dual citizenship would violate Constitutional law and the constitutional principles of harmony, legal statehood and responsible governance, according to the Lithuanian parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs.
Lithuania's parliament (Seimas) on Tuesday gave a green light to provisions of the Artificial Insemination Law that make artificial insemination easier.
Those who pulled the trigger during the Jewish genocide in Lithuania are not the only ones who should be considered guilty – those who transported Jews and guarded the sites of massacres should also be held accountable, a local historian says.
Though Lithuania's political world is still reeling from recent corruption scandals, the Prosecutor General has promised to announce new interrogations and accusations for still more politicians and Seimas members.
Lithuania's parliament on Thursday opened discussions into the draft Law on Assisted Insemination, which would stipulate state financing for expensive assisted insemination procedures for families unable to have children.
The Lithuanian parliament will debate on Thursday an amendment to the Constitution that would tie the legal definition of a family to marriage and parenthood.
Amid an investigation into political corruption suspicions, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is calling on voters not to boycott next October's general elections.
The Central Electoral Comission (VRK) on Wednesday annulled former Liberal Movement chairman Eligijus Masiulis' parliamentary powers and his parliamentary immunity along with them.
The Seimas and Global Lithuanian's Commission will be meeting in the Seimas from Tuesday until Friday to discuss the opportunity to hold a mandatory referendum on the permission of dual citizenship.
