Everybody understands that an economic downturn will follow the pandemic. Economic forecasts that started as relatively mild ones now often turn towards apocalyptical. No one is surprised by the Bank of Lithuania‘s reevaluation of its […]
With COVID-19 slowing the global economy, investors are beginning to turn to classes of property that are currently more stable, this including grain, Agrorodeo general manager Robertas Lapinskas wrote. Seeking to ensure sufficient financial flows […]
For Lithuania, which essentially grows grain for export and only consumes a small portion of it domestically, 2020 began favourably. The winter was warm and mild, and the plentiful as never before winter crops were […]
At the time of this writing, 23rd March 2020, in the United States there are more than 33,018 total confirmed and presumptive positive cases of COVID-19, 428 deaths, and cases in all fifty states plus […]
The second decade of the 21st century, which was also the third decade after the re-establishment of the Republic of Lithuania, was exceptionally high. The 2010s in Lithuania were marked by a rapid rise of […]
President Gitanas Nausėda travelled to Brussels to negotiate regarding the upcoming European Union budget and the 2021-2027 financial perspective. So far, the proposals for it offer no consolation for Lithuania. Based on the European Commission’s […]
Yes, this letter is to you, Ramūnas Karbauskis, Agnė Širinskienė, Saulius Skvernelis and all others, who still think that you have authority. By the way, you no longer have authority. It’s just an illusion. Yes, […]
2019 was an exciting year for the telecommunications market: consumer trend changers dictated market growth, while the US-Chinese struggle changed everything – from general device use to national security concerns, Petras Masiulis, Tele2 CEO for […]
There are two lines of thinking among the politicians in the EU on relations with Russia. There have always been those who call for – maintaining, restarting, refreshing – a dialogue with the current leadership […]
Maybe the offer of Viktoras Pranckietis and a few traditional liberals to start considering early elections is not that bad, Mečys Laurinkus wrote in Lrytas.lt. The idea that Parliamentary elections should be held in spring […]
Following a decade of no foreign policy-related disputes, currently, we are increasingly hearing unexpected things. The Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) unexpectedly started criticizing the Foreign Affairs Minister L. Linkevičius, who during the […]
Heiko Maas, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany All of us in Europe who experienced 9 November 1989 can answer this question. When East and West Germans embraced each other with tears of joy 30 years ago, this […]
The sort of chaos we now see in Seimas hadn’t yet been seen in Seimas after the restoration of independence. True, prior to deciding on organising snap elections (so far the only) in 1992, there […]
One of the most complicated problems that President Gitanas Nausėda is going to face is nationalism. It is awakening in Europe and it will reach Lithuania too, even though not in the shapes we are […]
Already in one other piece, I was left asking myself, whether we need snap elections. Immediately another question arose – what after? A return to this topic was spurred on by political scientist V. Laučius‘ […]
The Baltic Way greatly adjusted my, a then Sąjūdis Seimas council member and council secretariat official, forecasts. I had no doubt that the event, which was already being considered from early 1989, would succeed, but […]
‘The thirtieth anniversary of the Baltic Way is a good opportunity to stop and think. Perhaps to also place some punctuation. Sąjūdis, for change in Lithuania, was an uprising. Non-violent and thus victorious. After prior […]
On 23 August Europe will mark the European Day of remembrance for the victims of totalitarian regimes and will commemorate 80 years since the notorious non-aggression agreement between the two biggest totalitarian tyrannies of the […]
If the nation is sitting on a powder keg, it must suddenly be removed from beneath its behind. These are the words of famous crisis prevention specialist Remigijus Šimašius, who works as Vilnius mayor. This […]
Having recently returned to Lithuania for work, I thought I would be able to get away from the disinformation warfare being waged on the US government by its foes and their allies, the “useful idiots”. […]
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