Central/Eastern Europe

Lithuania returns suspected Belarusians: some are being deported within two weeks, others are still trying to litigate

Having opened its doors wide to Belarusians fleeing Lukashenko’s regime, Lithuania is now chasing thousands of them out because they pose a threat to the state security. Last year alone, around 1,500 Belarusian citizens sheltered […]

Foreign affairs

The EU must stop funding the brutal Cuba regime

Russia has always been Europe’s enemy. This is something that many of our Western and Central European friends seemed to forget since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Not so in Eastern Europe and the […]

Seimas
Politics

Intersecting non-systemic actors: why Lithuania’s populists can’t be in the same boat?

19 political parties have registered to run in the Seimas elections. Still, some have decided to cooperate, while others have attracted or are seeking to attract politicians who performed well in the presidential elections. However, […]

Vilija Blinkevičiūtė
Politics

Neither Blinkevičiūtė nor Karbauskis wants to become Prime Ministers: they explained why

They want to win the parliamentary elections but do not want to become Prime Ministers. Both Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, the Chairwoman of the Social Democrats, and Ramūnas Karbauskis, the leader of the Peasants, do not answer […]