Prime Minister of Lithuania Algirdas Butkevicius has met the Constitutional Court's (KT) ruling on the compensation of civil servants' salaries with reserve.

EU workers moving to a different EU country will be able to take their full pension rights with them thanks to a draft law passed by Parliament on Tuesday. It still needs to be formally approved by the Council of Ministers.

The European Commission (EC) approved of the initiative proposed by Lithuania and established an additional possibility to cover losses sustained by pig farmers due to preventive measures against African swine fever.

On 17 April, the Lithuanian Ambassador to China and South Korea Lina Antanavičienė took part in the opening of Lithuania’s new Honorary Consulate in Daegu, South Korea’s 4th largest city. Dr. Kwang Bum Park, who actively fosters our bilateral relations, will be the new Honorary Consul of Lithuania in South Korea.

In 2013, the representation expenses of the parliament leadership amounted to LTL 100,000 (EUR 29,000). During 10 months of 2013, Parliament Speaker Vydas Gedvilas (until he was replaced by his party fellow Loreta Grauziniene) was the one to spend the most funds for representation.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė accepted letters of credence from the newly appointed Apostolic Nuncio Pedro Lopez Quintana.

Amendments to the Laws on Presidential Elections and Elections to the Seimas aimed to lift the prohibition for a person, who had grossly violated the Constitution or breeched the oath, or who had been impeached by the Seimas and removed from office or deprived of the mandate, to be elected as the president of Lithuania or a member of Parliament.

From 2016, owners of all residential buildings (apartment blocks, own houses, gardener or other communities, owners of garages) will pay for municipal waste.

The average value of the investment units of the second pillar pension funds operating in the country increased by 0.87% and the total amount accumulated in the pension funds exceeded 5.6 billion litas in the first quarter of this year.

Current and former media leaders of the Baltic states and Finland sent on Friday a joint letter to the European Commission, in which they proposed the idea of creating a Russian-language European TV channel "Golos Yevropy" or "Voice of Europe".