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CORPORATE

The future of Europe after Brexit: Lithuania and Germany?

Next week, on 17 December 2018, the Presidential Palace will host an important international conference on the relations between Germany and Lithuania. The participants include the Lithuanian German Forum, functioning for thirteen years now and currently headed by Gabrielė Gylytė-Hein, representatives from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Vytautas Magnus University, and the Vilnius Institute for Policy Analysis. Jointly, they will strive to define the strategic guidelines for the Lithuanian-German relations at a conference broadcast live via the Delfi TV. The event will also be attended by influential European foreign policy makers and a large number of entrepreneurs, academics and cultural representatives. […]

Dalia Grybauskaitė
Foreign affairs

Grybauskaitė expects her meeting with Xi Jinping to open Chinese markets to Lithuania

President Dalia Grybauskaitė expects that her meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday will open up the way for Lithuanian businesses to the huge market. […]

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Foreign affairs

Activists call on Lithuanian president to point to rights violations in China

Tibet’s supporters are calling on Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė to pay attention to human rights violations in China during her visit to this country. […]

Arvydas Juozaitis
CORPORATE

Arvydas Juozaitis. Trump and the new world order

Major Lithuanian news media did not seriously review US President Donald Trump‘s September 26 speech at the UN General Assembly, which shook the world political community. Prominent analytics say that this dramatically changes the accents […]

Li Keqiang at at the Opening Ceremony of The Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2018
Opinion

Address at the Opening Ceremony of The Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2018

Following a tortuous journey, a collective global recovery has emerged. This recovery is driven by the new round of industrial revolution and a new boom in innovation, which has lent fresh impetus to global economic development. That said, our world is faced with rising uncertainties and destabilizing factors, and a growing backlash against globalization. How to boost the new drivers to secure sustained growth of the global economy is a key area of concern for all of us. In this context, the theme of this Annual Meeting, “Shaping Innovative Societies in the Fourth Industrial Revolution”, cannot be more relevant. […]

Opinion

The Necessity of Sharing: How the Western establishment could save liberal democracy (and itself)

After visiting China, the impression arises that they are awaiting something. After speaking up about the advantages of liberal democracy, they politely listen to you and smile. From the conversations, you realise that they do not take our liberal democracy all that seriously. We, the Chinese, have had our own state for five thousand years and you are trying to teach us, they say. They also emphasise that liberal democracy is only a brief moment in history, which will quickly fade away, while China will remain as it was, Ruslanas Iržikevičius writes in Visegrad / Insight. […]

Saulius Skvernelis
Foreign affairs

Lithuanian PM sees no reason to worry about Chinese investments

Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that he sees no threats as to China‘s investments in Lithuania, adding that all potential investors are evaluated in a responsible way. […]