The governor of Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (AWPL) in the government Rita Tamašunienė proposed to restore the previous act on national minorities by parliament’s resolution. Tamašunienė had registered

After the meeting with representatives of national minorities PM Algirdas Butkevičius declared that draft of a new act on national minorities will be corrected. ‘We have decided that works on

Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius today will meet with representatives of national minorities living in Lithuania. Plan for the meeting is to discuss issues connected with draft of the new act

According to the Polish Prime Minister, the talks with the Prime Minister of Lithuania on the Polish minority will make sense if Vilnius expresses “a clearly better will”. A week

Constitutional Court declared that on the basis of the proposal of linguists the Parliament can change rules so that names and surnames in passports would be written not only with

In the first reading, the Parliament approved of the EAPL’s amendments concerning the Bill of the return of the land. On 19th December, the Parliament will reconsider the project, when

The rhetoric of ‘reseting” the relations is also common in Lithuania. “Veidas”, the opinion making weekly paper writes that before elections, the promise of beginning new relations between Lithuania and

While the money was being raised in the Vilnius Region to pay a hefty fine imposed on Bolesław Daszkiewicz because of the bilingual street names placed, what is interesting, on

Waldemar Tomaszewski’s candidacy for the President’s chair proposed by Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (EAPL) was a surprise for many. It was rather said that EAPL would focus mostly

“I am full of resentment over the penalty for bilingual street signs which was imposed on Boleslav Daškevič. It is incomprehensible.” – said Radosław Sikorski, the leader of Polish diplomacy,