European Union

Poland and Germany cannot afford to ignore one another

In 2011, Poland’s then Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski famously stated, “I fear Germany’s power less than her inactivity.” Since then, Berlin and Warsaw’s intensive post-1989 cooperation seems to have ebbed. Why? Can this once-close partnership […]

Society

A Turk points his finger at other migrants: they are treated differently in Lithuania

Even though Turkish migrant Halaf Kacmaz has been living in Vilnius for the past five years, working, paying taxes, and speaking Lithuanian, he resents that, unlike other migrants, he also needs to take a national […]

Vytautas Landsbergis
Energy

Landsbergis criticises Latvia: betraying Lithuania is a pit the Latvians will never escape

Professor Vytautas Landsbergis is critical of the Baltic States’ agreement on Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant. What the Latvian foreign minister describes as a compromise, the first head of state of restored Lithuania describes as a […]

Lithuania

Astravyets on an electoral platter: why are the Conservatives so aggressive and the “Farmers” so silent?

The approaching Seimas elections and launch date of the Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant have linked these seemingly unrelated events. The opposition Conservatives are ever more fiercely critical of the ruling parties and the president for being unable […]