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“Farmers” bring out their secret weapon in the Vilnius mayor elections

November 28, 2018 Media Briefing 0

Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LVŽS) deputy chairman, Minister of Economy Virginijus Sinkevičius confirmed to lrt.lt that part of the LVŽS Vilnius city branch has offered him to run for Vilnius mayor in next year’s municipal elections. V. Sinkevičius has not yet revealed whether he would like to participate in the elections, however he assures that the office of minister of finance would not preclude him from being a candidate, lrt.lt writes. […]

Balsys joins LSDP group in Seimas

April 26, 2018 BNS 0

Linas Balsys is leaving the group of non-attached members of the Lithuanian parliament to join the political group of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) in the Seimas. […]

Embattled MP Balsys under care of doctors, his family – statement

November 14, 2017 BNS 0

Linas Balsys, a Lithuanian lawmaker who appeared to be drunk when he left the parliament building in his car last week, is currently under the care of doctors and those close to him, his family said on Tuesday. […]

Lithuania’s intermin to look into drunken MP incident

November 9, 2017 BNS 0

Lithuania’s Interior Minister Eimutis Misiūnas has pledged to look into the reasons why the police was notified about the allegedly drunken condition of MP Linas Balsys after he had already left the parliament building by car, also planning to find out why the security let him leave. […]

Lithuanian MP Balsys suspected of being drunk in parlt, police may be called in (Updated)

November 9, 2017 BNS 0

The leadership of the Lithuanian Seimas want to call the police to the parliament building in Vilnius over suspicions that MP Linas Balsys is drunk. […]

Presentation of the SocDems electoral programme

ELECTIONS. Only takes 5 minutes to wish the debate to end

September 30, 2016 LT Daily 0

“The problem seems to be that already after five minutes, you end up wanting that the debate would end,” Mykolas Romeris University (MRU) lecturer, political scientist Rima Urbonaitė shared her impressions on the Tuesday debate […]

Seimas electoral debates begin with economics

September 14, 2016 Lithuania Tribune 0

Four week cycle of Seimas electoral debates has commenced. Politicians will be discussing the topics of economics, demographics, justice and social politics. The leaders of Lithuanian parties or their representatives will be engaged in live debates, trying to attract potential voters. The first debate featured representatives from the Order and Justice Party, Lithuanian Green Party, Lithuanian Polish Electoral Action – Christian Families’ Union (LLRA-KŠP), Lithuanian Freedom Union (liberals), S. Buškevičius and Nationalists’ coalition “Against corruption and poverty”. The leaders of the Lithuanian Green Party, Lithuanian Freedom Union and the coalition “Against corruption and poverty” were present with the other parties delegating representatives. […]

L. Balsys critical of Lithuania’s approach to Astravyets N-Plant

September 13, 2016 LT Daily 0

Lithuanian Green Party Chairman Linas Balsys has expressed a number of critical remarks toward the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats the President Dalia Grybauskaitė. His criticisms mainly focus on the aforementioned and their efforts to oppose […]

Green Party and Homeland Union exchanges over foreign policy

September 13, 2016 Media brief 0

Russia is not a terrorist state thus relations with it should be improved Linas Balsys, head of the Lithuanian Green Party (LŽP) stated in an interview with LRT Radio. According to him only the President […]

Complicated Sino-Lithuanian relationship

October 1, 2024 0

As the Seimas elections approach, more parties, especially opposition parties, promise to change their foreign policy. The most significant change, in their view, is in relations with China. The opposition believes that seeing China as […]

Economist speaks out about the unstoppable rise in prices: ‘It’s getting a bit scary’

September 24, 2024 0

Prices in Lithuania decreased by 0.5% over the month, but annual inflation is again approaching the 1% mark. The most significant price increases over the year were in cafes and restaurants – nearly 9%. Some […]

Who could have thought? Germans give us a brigade, we give them electricity

September 20, 2024 0

Rokas Masiulis, the Head of the electricity transmission operator Litgrid, was one of the energy experts who, at the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, calmly and even optimistically looked to the future: Lithuania would […]

The EU must stop funding the brutal Cuba regime

September 16, 2024 0

Russia has always been Europe’s enemy. This is something that many of our Western and Central European friends seemed to forget since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Not so in Eastern Europe and the […]

Grybauskaitė effect? Among the candidates for Prime Minister, there is also an option that has not yet been named out loud

September 13, 2024 0

With the parliamentary elections just a month away, party leaders are already working out, in public and behind closed doors, the scenarios for the foundations of the future governing coalition and who will lead the […]

Lithuanians will have to open their wallets even wider: goods and services will become more expensive

August 30, 2024 0

According to TV3.lt, Swedbank economists raise their GDP growth forecast for Lithuania and believe the Lithuanian economy will grow the fastest among the Baltic States this year and next. Inflation will likely rise next year, […]