Lithuania’s parliament last week established a group for national minority policies, naming it May 3 Group in honor of the historic legacy of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. […]
Lithuania is set to step up defence ties with the United States by signing the first bilateral cooperation agreement. […]
With the President having presented Saulius Skvernelis’ candidacy for Prime Minister, BNS asked his predecessors, what the greatest challenges the new PM can expect are. Social Democrat Algirdas Butkevičius (2012-2016) – it is crucial to […]
On Monday the winner of this year’s Seimas election, the Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union (LVŽS) and the Lithuanian Social Democrat Party (LSDP) worked on merging their programmes and decided on the number of ministries each party can expect in the future cabinet, with 11 going to the LVŽS and three to the LSDP. […]
With the poor Social Democrat (LSDP) performance in the multi-mandate electoral district, earning only 13 mandates, discussions have sprung up in the party, on potentially selecting a replacement for PM Butkevičius. The man in question does not deny such a possibility either, expressing no attachment to the position of party chairman. […]
The biggest loser in this Seimas election has been the Labour Party, having failed to pass the 5% vote barrier. That said, no less a blow was that to the Lithuanian Social Democrat Party (LSDP) which had been dominant in ratings nigh on up to election day. What do the Social Democrats need to do after this loss to Gabrielius Landsbergis’ Conservatives and Ramūnas Karbauskis’ “Peasants”? […]
Some of the current Social Democrat Party (LSDP) chairman’s deputies while performing poorly in the single-mandate electoral district, somehow are highly placed in the LSDP electoral roll, in fact rising in their ranking there. Political […]
Midnight on October 9, the Social Democrats (LSDP) were confident that they will be among the parties that will form the coalition government. With the results starting to arrive from the multi-mandate electoral districts, however, they had to admit defeat. […]
LRT.lt sources suggest that Peasant and Greens (LVŽS) negotiations with the Social Democrats (LSDP) are led by former Minister of the Interior Saulius Skvernelis, while the negotiations with the Conservatives (TS-LKD) are led by the […]
Monday’s Vote 2016 debates organised by DELFI featured the shadow Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) Žygimantas Pavilionis and Seimas deputy Chairman, Social Democrat (LSDP) Gediminas Kirkilas. The […]
LRT Radio and lrt.lt continues its cycle of political party introductions. This time, we introduce the history and work of the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania (LSDP). The party with the longest historyThe Lithuanian social […]
While the Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union (LVŽS) is not expected to receive the most votes in the upcoming Seimas election, it is seen as a likely partner in whatever coalition government will arise following […]
Gediminas Kirkilas, former prime minister and a leading figure in the Social Democratic Party, has said he would have stepped down if he were in the shoes of Lithuania’s minister of national defence, without going […]
A retired Lithuanian general has said it would be theoretically possible for Lithuania together with neigbouring countries to have access to a nuclear weapon by joining the NATO nuclear weapons sharing program, but would it […]
Lithuanian politicians have criticised the reform of the EU asylum rules proposed by the European Commission last week which would see EU member states fined for refusing to shelter the refugee, accusing the European Commission […]
Statements on the US foreign policy coming from one of the front-running candidates, Republican Donald Trump, have alarmed Washington’s allies. Lithuanian politicians say, however, that campaign slogans do not necessarily become reality. […]
The Social Democratic party has chosen not to support the Order and Justice party’s nomination of Povilas Gylys as a candidate for Minister of the Interior. […]
Lithuania’s major political parties will work out an agreement to present a unified front opposing the threat posed by the construction of a new Belarus nuclear plant and to send a clear message that electricity from the plant will face restrictions. […]
The agreement secured by British Prime Minister David Cameron at the weekend on special conditions for Britain to stay in the European Union did not represent a victory for the UK or the EU, according to leading Lithuanian politicians. […]
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