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Kęstutis Girnius. The changed Lithuanian political landscape

Politics does not stand in place, change is a near constant even if the changes are often insignificant. New political parties emerge, draw voters for a few years and then vanish. The Way of Courage, the National Revival Party, A. PaulauskasNew Union, the Modern Christian Democrat Union, the Lithuanian Freedom Union, the Labour Party, the Lithuanian Social Democratic Labour Party – this is only part of the political parties, which formed after the re-establishment of independence, most forming after the year 2000. […]

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Kęstutis Girnius. Low taxation – low teachers’ wages

The desire of the public sector to have better lives and fighting to obtain it is understandable. […]

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Kęstutis Girnius. Is support for the Conservatives capped?

The victory of TS-LKD candidate I. Haase in Zanavykai electoral district has drawn much attention. The victory is impressive in that the “Farmers” diligently sought to win the elections, nominating Minister of Agriculture G. Surplys, […]

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Kęstutis Girnius. Has NATO grown stronger? Has Grybauskaitė saved the Alliance?

From its first minute, the NATO summit meeting became Donald’s “show”. The meeting had not even officially started, but during a breakfast with NATO Secretary General J. Stoltenberg, President Trump began to criticise other NATO […]

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Kęstutis Girnius. How reliable is the VSD report?

For a few weeks now, the main attention of Lithuanian politicians and news media has been focused on the State Security Department (VSD) report on the illegal efforts by the MG Baltic group to influence […]