Bronius Markauskas, the candidate for Lithuania’s agriculture minister, has been a farmer in his home village of Truseliai, the Klaipėda district, for the past 16 years and is familiar with agricultural problems. More than a decade ago, he blocked roads with his peers in an effort to demand higher support to milk producers. […]
Candidate for Lithuania’s defence minister, diplomat Raimundas Karoblis, supports the idea of introducing mandatory conscription to the Armed Forces. […]
Oysters may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you hear Lithuania, but the second annual Oyster Festival is putting the Baltic country on the seafood lovers’ map. The festival, which began on November 24 and will ran until November 27 in Lithuania’s major cities, will include workshops, parties, farmers’ markets and, of course, abundant tastings of oysters. […]
Support for the Peasant and Greens Union skyrocketed following the elections. How long this euphoria will last depends on the decisions made by the party which won the elections states Baltijos Tyrimai sociologist Romas Mačiūnas. […]
Jonava District Mayor Mindaugas Sinkevičius, candidate for Lithuania’s economy minister, says one of his main priorities would be preparations for the decline in European Union (EU) support after 2020. In his words, the country should reinforce its economy to cushion the shock. […]
Rokas Masiulis, a candidate to swap his post of energy minister for Lithuania’s minister of transport and communications, will have a lot of work – experts see restructuring of the state-run railway company Lietuvos Geležinkeliai as one of his major challenges where Masiulis would have to demonstrate skills as a manager and a maneuvering politician. […]
Operating since 2015, the Eurasian Economic Union formed (EEU) over a relatively short period of time, and passed through all three stages of integration – from the customs union established in 2010 to the single market in 2012, culminating with the integrated economic union, which included coordination of the individual state economic policies starting in 2015. In principle, this inclusive structure and institutional framework is very similar to the European Union (EU), the difference being that the latter’s integration process, covering not only the single internal market but also various policies, took place over almost 40 years. The integration process arises from the bottom up. […]
Most of the ministerial candidates named on 24 November by Prime Minister-designate Saulius Skvernelis lack political experience and are not closely linked to the Peasants and Greens, the party that has proposed them for the Cabinet posts, which may seriously hamper the new government’s work, leaders of parliamentary opposition parties said. […]
Three German solders were slightly injured when several shells landed near them during mortar fire drills as part of the Iron Sword 2016 multinational exercise, the Lithuanian military said on Thursday. […]
Economist Vilius Šapoka, candidate for Lithuania’s new finance minister, has so far refused to elaborate on the possible pension and tax reform, saying that all changes would need to be analyzed. […]
Linas Kukuraitis, the candidate for Lithuania’s social security and labor minister, is a supporter of home birth that is viewed controversially in Lithuania. All of his five children were born at home. […]
Liana Ruokytė-Jonsson proposed for Lithuania’s culture minister is a cultural diplomat and manager whose career includes roles of an actress, translator and even a singer in a profile drawn by culture figures familiar with her dossier and her personally. […]
Lithuania’s incoming government of Prime Minister-designate Saulius Skvernelis, whose line-up is dominated by ministers who are not members of any political party, may face risks due to instability, political scientists said. […]
Prior to the Seimas elections Stasys Jakeliūnas was viewed as the most likely candidate for the post of Minister of Finance. Surprisingly, however, he replaced the already confirmed Seimas Budget and Finance Committee chairman, while the PM chose Vilius Šapoka as a candidate for the post of Minister of Finance. According to Jakeliūnas this occured due to his stance on pension funds and pressure on financial institutions. […]
The preliminary line-up of candidates for minister posts only partially reflected predictions. Some “Peasant” candidates who have been discussed for months were left in the shadow with Saulius Skvernelis unveiling of the final list of names which was presented for presidential review. […]
Vilius Šapoka, the candidate to take the post of finance minister in Lithuania’s new government, is a pro-active and tactful person who tends to seek compromise and listens to all parties before making decisions and an economist with a wealth of experience in capital market supervision. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė will not comment on Prime Minister-designate Saulius Skvernelis‘ candidates to take ministerial posts in his Cabinet only after she has personally met with them, the president’s spokeswoman said on Thursday. […]
Raimundas Karoblis, the man who is set to become Lithuania’s next defense minister, has served as a diplomat for more than 20 years and, as the country’s permanent representative to the European Union in Brussels, coordinated Lithuania’s EU presidency three years ago. […]
The former “Peasant” shadow cabinet can turn into smoke. Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis cheerfully noted to LRT.lt that “shadows dissipate eventually”. So who is going to lay claim to minister posts? […]
Now is a suitable time for the Homeland Union to take care of its unity, seek a new core message and perhaps – a new chairman. Such was the view of political scientist Virgis Valentinavičius talking to LRT.lt. […]
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