Gintautas Paluckas
Defence

SocDem leader against bids to grant more than 2% of GDP to defense

After Lithuania reaches 2 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) for defense next year, the defense funding should no longer be increased, with money directed towards reduction of social exclusion, says Gintautas Paluckas, the leader of the Social Democratic Party. […]

Andrius Palionis, Gintautas Paluckas, Gediminas Kirkilas
Politics

Social Democrat MPs to enter in coalition with Farmers group

The political group of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party, which has left the ruling coalition, will sign a cooperation agreement with the ruling Farmers and Green Union‘s MPs. […]

Gintautas Paluckas and Gabrielius Landsbergis
CORPORATE

G. Landsbergis and G. Paluckas – leadership differences emerge

The Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) leader Gabrielius Landsbergis has stabilised his leadership within the party and is seen as a unifying figure in it, while Lithuanian Social Democrat Party (LSDP) chairman Gintautas […]

Gintautas Paluckas
Politics

SocDem leader sees MPs’ planned deal as ‘slap in the face’ to party

Gintautas Paluckas, chairman of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP), describes a proposal by Andrius Palionis, head of the LSDP political group in the Seimas, to sign a memorandum on cooperation with lawmakers of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU) as “a slap in the face”. […]