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Open consultations on the National Energy Strategy have begun with for the first time, the Lithuanian Ministry of Energy is organising consultations with interest groups whose comments will be considered when drafting the final strategy.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said that an agreement has been reached with the leaders of all of the Seimas' parliamentary groups on the adoption of a so-called new social model, a package of laws including a new Labour Code, by July.

The Seimas Committee on Environmental Protection is considering asking the Lithuanian prosecutor's office to investigate certain buildings built in the Pavilniai and Verkių regional parks to defend the public interest.

Vitas Vasiliauskas, the head of Lithuania's central bank, has been asked to provide an explanation to the Seimas after it was reported that he represented an offshore company linked to Russia's oligarch Nikolai Tsvetkov before becoming the head of the bank.

On Wednesday, the government rejected a proposal submitted to the Seimas by a civil activist group that proposed introducing the opportunity to include a second first and last name next to an individual's legal first and last name on identification documents that could be written in other languages ...

The Seimas defined different types of employment contracts and a new regulation of these contracts as part of continuing debates on a new Labour Code on Tuesday.

A member of the Seimas' Liberal group has submitted a proposal calling for the liberalisation of language and naming rules for the formation of new companies, which would allow more companies to choose names with words from English or other widely used foreign languages.

A public activist group against the resettlement of refugees in Lithuania failed to collect a sufficient number of signatures to force the Seimas to consider repealing last autumn's decision to lay the groundwork for participation in the European Union's refugee resettlement program.

The Lithuanian Central Electoral Commission distributed the year's first subsidies – a total of €2.7 million – to nine parties.

A group of activists called For Sobriety looking to pass a set of restrictions on the sale and advertisement of alcohol claim that, in just a few weeks, they have collected the 50,000 signatures needed to ensure that their proposals are seen by lawmakers in the Seimas.

The Social Democratic party has chosen not to support the Order and Justice party's nomination of Povilas Gylys as a candidate for Minister of the Interior.

Cannabis activists scheduled to hold a protest rally outside the Seimas in Vilnius next month have been targeted by prosecutors who suspect the rally sanction may have violated the public interest.

On Wednesday, the Seimas Ethics Commission has decided that the milk price regulation passed by the Seimas must be returned to the plenary meeting hall as soon as possible and be voted on again.

Lithuania's Competition Council, a regulatory body tasked with ensuring a healthy market and preventing monopolistic or over-dominant competitive acquisitions, has claimed that the Seimas' decision to regulate milk purchasing prices strangles competition, limits the personal freedoms of farmers, and...

Lithuanian dairy producers are holding a protest in Vilnius today to attract attention to the problems they are experiencing in the country's dairy market with about 1,500 farmers attending the demonstration, according to the police.

Lithuania's Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says the decision on Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis and whether or not he will remain in his post will be made after a meeting with Order and Justice party leader Rolandas Paksas.

On Wednesday, the State Security Department (SSD) presented a report on threats to national security to the Seimas' National Security and Defence Committee.