Former President D. Grybauskaitė demanded English language skills from minister candidates, just no one knows based on what scale – up to five or ten points. By the way, the current minister of national defence […]
The pandemic has closed borders and increased unemployment in Lithuania to levels not seen for several years. However, even give such a situation, a quarter more people immigrated to Lithuania compared to last year. The […]
As always, much of the chit-chats ahead of Palanga resort’s summer season kick-off this weekend were on the weather during the festival. […]
The exodus of Lithuania’s population has slowed down a little over the last few years, but a glint of hope may come from where few people expected – the seaside. […]
Three Klaipėda City councilmen remember January 13, 1991 – the memories don’t fade. […]
A week after Gediminas Grina, the former chief of Lithuania’s State Security Department (VSD) compared the country’s ethnic minority schools to “education ghettos” and called for their removal, Klaipeda’s Russian school teachers are still upset about his comments. […]
Russia’s Vladimir Putin may have just done favour for Lithuania with his sardonic remark on “fewer Lithuanians” during his recent visit to Kaliningrad – even parties that had bristled against the idea of a referendum on allowing dual citizenship, might be embracing it amid the sabre-rattling from the East. Moreover, politicians might be getting cozy with another outlandish idea: get the folks say “yes” or “no” through e-voting. […]
From advisor on legal issues to the speaker of the Lithuanian Parliament, to deputy culture minister and, finally, to ombudsperson in charge of equal opportunities (EO). This would seem like a surreal career journey to some, but Agneta Lobačevskytė, the new EO ombudswoman, sees what seems like a stroke of luck to many as a logical and deserved turn of events. […]
With the creepy chill in the Lithuanian-Russian relations, the aftermath of the geopolitical square-off between Moscow and Western powers, the trade, amazingly, has taken the beating until this year quite well. “Quite paradoxically, the scope of Russia-bound Lithuanian export rose throughout 2014, while Russia was already gripped by Western economic sanctions,” Remigijus Motuzas, Lithuania’s ambassador to Russia, tells the Lithuania Tribune. This year, bilateral trade has started taking a hit, however. The Lithuanian Embassy in Moscow nevertheless keeps bustling as visitors are unfazed by the roughed up relations. […]
Ambassadors do not pop up out of the blue and, for Marius Janukonis, Lithuania’s new Ambassador to Ukraine, the journey has been, he says, “a natural course of the diplomatic career”. But landing a diplomatic post in a country like Ukraine is obviously “a big challenge”, he agrees. […]
Despite the frantic attempts by some of the EU leaders to give a rosy tint to the otherwise murky picture of the EU Eastern Partnership summit in Riga, political analysts from Lithuania, Estonia and Ukraine, approached by the Lithuania Tribune, unanimously agree the EU partners with membership aspirations have ended up in a limbo after the high-profile meeting. The uncertainty cannot last forever, the analysts agree, but their predictions for how it may unfold differ. […]
With a thrust from the eurozone, affordable air-fares on the route Vilnius-Tel Aviv and just generally better Israeli-Lithuanian relations, tourist flows between the two countries have peaked lately. […]
The gloomy mood ahead of the EU Eastern Partnership Summit in Riga this week is in a stark contrast with the expectations that prevailed before the similar meeting in Vilnius one and a half years ago. […]
Lithuania may soon join its Baltic neighbours in OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) membership. Lithuania was invited to start the organization’s multi-year ascension process last month, a process Latvia started in 2012. Estonia joined the OECD in 2010. […]
Gabrielius Landsbergis, Lithuanian conservatives’ 33-year-old star and very likely future chairman, has perhaps just made his first major gaffe. His flip-flop on the issue of (dis)continuing in the European Parliament seat in case he gets elected to chair his party, the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, has drawn some irk from Jurgis Razma, one of the light-weight contenders in the race. […]
John Shimkus, the only US Republican congressman of close Lithuanian descent, says he is proud of Lithuania being such a staunch ally of the United States, with the ties deeply rooted in the two countries’ long-standing political, economic and cultural collaboration. […]
The latest NATO reinforcements will provide further security to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia should Russia decide to act on its increased military activity close to the countries’ borders. […]
The task of a diplomat is to maintain contacts with the authorities and society leaders, so dribbling basketball with the administration chief of the Russian president, playing buskashi with Afghans in Kabul – engaging in what one might call “sport diplomacy” – is part of the job. While such informal contacts might provide a wealth of insights into the unofficial workings of a foreign country, Vygaudas Ušackas, the EU Delegation chief in Russia, admits he is not “in the business of prophecies” to tell how long the Russian-Ukrainian conflict can last. […]
Copyright © 2024 | MH Magazine WordPress Theme by MH Themes