Quality of life index – which municipalities have the best situation in 2022

Quality of life index – which municipalities have the best situation in 2022

On the website managed by the Ministry of Finance Lietuvosfinansai.lt the municipal quality of life index (GKI) is presented, supplemented in 2022. data. To the TOP five municipalities in terms of overall quality of life in 2022. the municipality of Birštonas returned, having displaced Neringa from it, and the city of Klaipėda rose to the … Read more

Social cards will soon reach the country’s poor

Social cards will soon reach the country’s poor

This year, a new procedure for providing support to needy residents came into force – instead of previously distributed packages of long-lasting food products and hygiene products, after receiving social cards, people will decide for themselves which products and goods to purchase in the chosen store or retail chain. The first delivery of social cards … Read more

The first EU investment project in the regions of the country is starting

The first EU investment project in the regions of the country is starting

MIA photo. The first one starts in 2022-2030. The project in the regions of the country is financed with the funds of the regional development program. Today, February 13, Utena District Municipality and the Central Project Management Agency signed the contract for the project “Development of Social Housing in Utena City”, according to which nearly … Read more

The victory of the opposition is that the excise duty on liquefied petroleum gas has been reduced to 13 euros per ton

The victory of the opposition is that the excise duty on liquefied petroleum gas has been reduced to 13 euros per ton

BNS photo In an extraordinary session, the Seimas urgently considered and adopted amendments to the Law on Excise Duty on Liquefied Petroleum Gas on Thursday. According to the adopted new provisions presented to the Seimas by members of the Lithuanian Party of Regions Andrius Palionis and Jonas Pinskus and member of the Lithuanian Peasants and … Read more

Those in power collected signatures for an extraordinary session of the Seimas

Those in power collected signatures for an extraordinary session of the Seimas

Radvilė Morkūnaitė-Mikulėnienė. (ELTA / Tomas Vinicks photo) Those in power collected signatures to hold an extraordinary session of the Seimas. During the extraordinary session initiated on February 12-15, it is proposed to decide on the demands raised by the farmers during the protest, as well as to decide on the destruction of the legal immunity … Read more

The government responds to the demands of farmers

The government responds to the demands of farmers

Associative photo (BNS photo) Last week’s farmers’ protests in the capital drew a reaction from the authorities. Taking into account the proposal of 50 members of the Seimas, the head of the parliament Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen calls an extraordinary session of the Seimas. The Ministry of Agriculture is stopping the implementation of the decision on the … Read more

Prime Minister I. Šimonytė is registered as a participant in the presidential election campaign

Prime Minister I. Šimonytė is registered as a participant in the presidential election campaign

Ingrid Šimonytė. (Skirmantas Lisauskas / BNS photo) On Monday, the Central Election Commission (CEC) registered Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė, who is being nominated for the presidency of the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD), as a participant in the political campaign. I. Šimonytė is the tenth registered participant of the political campaign, who intends to participate … Read more

A new obligation is proposed for scooter riders: they would have to wear helmets

A new obligation is proposed for scooter riders: they would have to wear helmets

(ELTA / Žygimantas Gedvila’s photo) All drivers of scooters and other electric micromobility devices are proposed to be obliged to wear helmets. In cases where such a device is rented, the lessor of the electric micromobility device should provide the helmet. Seimas members Andrius Vyšniauskas and Julius Sabatauskas registered the amendments to the Law on … Read more

Politicians intending to compete for the post of president are starting to collect signatures

Politicians intending to compete for the post of president are starting to collect signatures

Šarūnas Mazeika’s photo. Politicians who have registered to run for the presidency start collecting voter signatures on Wednesday – at least 20,000 are needed to be registered as candidates. Signatures can be collected until March 28. Applicants who have submitted application documents can start collecting them on Wednesday. Currently, there are ten of the 14 … Read more

Everything you need to know about the control of polluting cars is in the memo prepared by the Department of Environmental Protection

Everything you need to know about the control of polluting cars is in the memo prepared by the Department of Environmental Protection

in 2024 after the amendments to the legal acts entered into force in January, giving the officials of the Department of Environmental Protection the right to stop cars and trucks and buses on the roads and to check the pollution caused by cars, the specialists of the department prepared vehicle pollution control memorandumwhich answers the … Read more