The Seimas' Legal Department had previously also expressed its negative position on the proposal, saying that it runs counter to the Constitution.
Their position is echoed by EU law specialists.
„The Constitution of Lithuania clearly states that “state and municipal establishments of teaching and education shall be secular. At the request of parents, they shall provide religious instruction.„ We therefore believe that legal regulation, proposed by the draft, introducing compulsory religious teaching in primary and lower-secondary schools without taking into consideration parents' wish runs counter to the Constitution,“ the European Law Department concluded.
