The opening of the first Astravyets nuclear power plant reactor is scheduled for the beginning of this year. At the same time, a movement against the power plant is being established in Lithuania. On the […]
Every Seimas elections bring new, non-traditional political parties into public view. And while some of these political movements often are laughable and might be hard to take seriously, sometimes these parties take sway over voters’ […]
Political scientists and analysts praise the Polish ethnic minority as the most civic-minded electorate. Representatives of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania – Christian Families Union are constantly in majority coalitions. That said, lately, […]
How should the state and its politicians act upon facing a sharp, sensitive and controversial in society question – shove their heads in the sand or do discuss and speak about it, Jewish property in […]
To force the hubristic Turkish President R. T. Erdogan to withdraw is more comfortable than to unseat J. Narkevičius from the post of minister of transport and communications. That’s probably how we can describe the […]
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, […]
If actions would be made consistently, President G. Nausėda should veto the Seimas’ decision to lower the electoral bar for parties to 3% and 5% for coalitions. The ruling coalition will likely reject the veto. […]
The Gintautas Paluckas’ Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) remains Lithuania’s largest political party with a membership of 16,545 members. However, both the LSDP and the other parties in decline in Lithuania in membership this year, […]
Arvydas Juozaitis is planning to establish his own party-gathering Lietuva yra čia [Lithuania is Here]. A new political movement is also gathering around Vytautas Sinica. Rimantas Jonas Dagys, who recently separated from V. Sinica is […]
I recently got acquainted with young professor T. Janeliūnas’ study D. Grybauskaitė’s Doctrine: Changes in Lithuanian Foreign Policy 2009-2019. It is a professional, business-like and well-written analysis of Lithuanian foreign policy during years of matriarchal […]
The Social Democrat party has warned its leader Gintautas Paluckas – attempts to lure over Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, who is currently delegated by the “Farmers” should only be done with the party’s blessing, Tadas […]
The Lithuania Tribune team spoke to Edward Lucas at the Riga Conference on 12 October. We spoke about French President Macron’s Reset initiatives with Russia, Lithuanian energy security politics and Astravyets, Georgia and Ukraine. Read […]
“Lithuanian elect “saviours” primarily due to disappointment,” political scientist Kęstutis Girnius commented on Lithuanians‘ electoral preferences in the lead up to the nearing 2020 Seimas elections, Viktorija Rimaitė, wrote in Lrytas.lt The Labour Party (DP), […]
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 […]
Farmer leader Ramūnas Karbauskis has for a long time been perceived as a politician with a firm hand, whose orders are obeyed without question by his Seimas group members. However, the drama over dismissing Seimas […]
How can you so confidently descended into a final confrontation when afterwards you lose it with such certainty? How can you not feel the impending loss, Lietuvos rytas asked in its editorial lrytas.lt? Such questions […]
Lithuania is not adequately prepared to handle a large scale ecological or technical accidents. This was displayed once again by the fire just recently put out in Alytus’ used tires recycling plant after it had […]
The elections that took place in Poland did not go unnoticed in Lithuania. With Poland’s Law and Justice (PiS) party has won the trust of its electorate yet again, hope to repeat the same winning […]
There is so much talk about the welfare state vision that it can already be pictured in a physical manifestation – riding as if the Vytis, which was not allowed into Lukiškės Square, on its […]
Prior to the presidential elections and after them, G. Nausėda promised that he will be unlike his predecessor D. Grybauskaitė. That said, he never clarified, what this could mean, Vytautas Bruveris wrote in lrytas.lt Meanwhile, […]
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