Ambassador at large Eitvidas Bajarūnas
CORPORATE

Hybrid threats facing Lithuania – real or imagined?

If you type the word “hybrid” into the Google search machine, you will get a rather likely result – the term “hybrid car”. Only later Google will include such terms, as “hybrid warfare” and “hybrid threats”. In general, hybrid means a thing made by combining two or many different elements, mixed. So much about the terms. […]

Dovilė Šukytė
Opinion

U.S. presidential election as a wake-up call for women in leadership

The defeat of Hillary Clinton in the U.S. presidential election has resulted in well-founded concerns for the U.S. and Europe. Lithuania is no exception. Currently, our concerns about the safe future are being addressed and soothed by highest U.S. officials, including Vilnius-residing Ambassador Anne Hall who shortly after the announcement of the election results reassured us about the U.S. commitment to its alliance with Lithuania. […]

Prime Minister's chancellery
CORPORATE

The minister puzzle – which names are already clear and what does the President objects to?

With Saulius Skvernelis having been proposed as PM, he is beginning to piece together a ministerial cabinet. He has two weeks for this, but some ministries lack interested candidates, while some the President finds some […]

CORPORATE

The President and the future PM – has the axe been buried?

President Dalia Grybauskaitė has signed a decree that proposes Saulius Skvernelis as a candidate to the post of Prime Minister. Only the blessing of Seimas is needed now. The President, in her typical fashion, has […]

Saulius Skvernelis
CORPORATE

Interview with S. Skvernelis – highlights

The Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union frontrunner Saulius Skvernelis has been just proposed by the President Dalia Grybauskaitė to become the head of the new cabinet. On Wednesday last week, his party signed a coalition agreement with the Social Democrats, upon which the new state government will be based. Skvernelis spoke on reform, party influence and posts, experience in the police and what of it can be employed in government in an interview with Vakarinė Palanga. […]

After the speach at the first session of the new Seimas of 2016-2020
Politics

President: new Seimas can pave way for new phase of state evolution

Lithuania’s new parliament has the potential of paving way for an entirely new phase of state evolution – transition from still nomenclature political system to a transparent and open parliament that would represent the nation, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said in her congratulatory speech at the first Seimas meeting on Monday. […]