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Thursday, 23.05.2013, 22:54
Estonian MFA: allowing double citizenship stuck in disagreement of ministries
23.05.2013Estonian foreign minister Urmas Paet said on Wednesday in the Riigikogu that there are no developments on allowing double citizenship since the visions of the interior ministry and foreign ministry don’t coincide, LETA/Public Broadcasting reports.
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Amended insurance law in Lithuania to prevent treating gender as risk factor
26.04.2013Lithuanian parliament has adopted amendments to the Law on Insurance, harmonising the Law with the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union delivered on 1 March of 2011, reported LETA/ELTA the press service of the Seimas said.
Grybauskaite criticized the law on unified Lithuanian language school leaving exam
17.04.2013After the meeting with Minister of Education and Science Dainius Pavalkis, Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaite criticized his ministerial order on refusal of a unified Lithuanian language school leaving exam and emphasized that the Lithuanian language cannot become a subject of negotiations and political agreements, informs LETA/ELTA.
Lithuania PM in favor of dual citizenship
16.04.2013Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius says that he is in favour of legalising the dual citizenship, however, with clear criteria for those who could get it, reports LETA/ELTA.
Estonia suffers from shortage of public prosecutors
15.04.2013According to the Chief Public Prosecutor Norman Aas, the situation where many positions of public prosecutors have remained vacant has lasted for several years, writes LETA/National Broadcasting.
2 new legislative acts to modernize Estonia's national defence
The new Defense Forces Services Act and the new National Defense League Act, both of which entered into force today, make the national defense system more up-to-date and introduce significant reforms, reported LETA the Estonian Defense Ministry.
Government's entrepreneurship policy budget amounts to 22 mln euros
The Estonian government approved on Thursday of the implementation plan for the last year of the Estonian entrepreneurship policy 2007-2013, the budget of which is 21.8 million euros and which sets raising the competitiveness of Estonian companies as the biggest challenge, LETA/Postimees Online reports.
EU’s assessment of Latvian economic activity 
