Joachim Gauck Archives - the Lithuania Tribune

Germany, Lithuania on opposite sides of NATO divide on Russia

April 26, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

The NATO-Russia Council meeting last week did not seem to bring any tangible results, but it was preceded by the usual clash of opposing positions within NATO, one side advocating for engaging in dialogue with Russia and the other sceptical about Russia’s interest in genuine engagement. […]

‘EU can’t force solidarity on its members’ – Grybauskaitė in Germany

April 20, 2016 BNS 0

President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who is visiting Germany this week, says that Lithuania sticks to its position that the European Union cannot force its member-states accept refugees against their will. […]

President Grybauskaitė congratulates Germany on reunification anniversary

October 5, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

On 3 October President Dalia Grybauskaitė extended congratulations to Federal President Joachim Gauck on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of German reunification celebrated on Unity Day, the presidential press service said. […]

President Grybauskaitė: Most important EU issues will be discussed in Aachen

May 13, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is going to Aachen, Germany, on Wednesday to attend the Charlemagne Prize award ceremony. She is invited to take part in the festive events as laureate of the Charlemagne Prize 2013. […]

President Grybauskaitė in Euromaidan anniversary event

President Grybauskaitė: Ukrainian people continue defending Maidan ideals

February 23, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

President Dalia Grybauskaitė visited Ukraine‘s capital Kiev on Sunday, 22 February. Alongside other European leaders she attended commemorative events for Maidan’s anniversary, including the March of Dignity in memory of Maidan victims that took place in the centre of Kiev, the presidential press service said. […]

President Grybauskaitė: Regional security is common interest of Germany and Baltic states

November 6, 2014 ELTA EN 0

President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with President of the Federal Republic of Germany Joachim Gauck. Taking part in the meeting on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall were also Latvian President Andris Berzins and Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves. […]

President Joachim Gauck of Germany and President Bronislaw Komorowski of Poland commemorate the start of World War Two

History lessons as Poland and Germany mark start of Second World War

September 2, 2014 Reuters 0

On 1 September, in 1939, without a declaration of war a German battleship opened fire on a Polish garrison. […]

Is Nausėda already forming the ruling majority? Only three parties were invited to meet

October 7, 2024 0

While the heads of the opposition parliamentary parties are ironing their suits and preparing for their meeting with President Gitanas Nausėda, the ruling parties shrug their shoulders. Counting down the days until the parliamentary elections, […]

Complicated Sino-Lithuanian relationship

October 1, 2024 0

As the Seimas elections approach, more parties, especially opposition parties, promise to change their foreign policy. The most significant change, in their view, is in relations with China. The opposition believes that seeing China as […]

Economist speaks out about the unstoppable rise in prices: ‘It’s getting a bit scary’

September 24, 2024 0

Prices in Lithuania decreased by 0.5% over the month, but annual inflation is again approaching the 1% mark. The most significant price increases over the year were in cafes and restaurants – nearly 9%. Some […]

Who could have thought? Germans give us a brigade, we give them electricity

September 20, 2024 0

Rokas Masiulis, the Head of the electricity transmission operator Litgrid, was one of the energy experts who, at the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, calmly and even optimistically looked to the future: Lithuania would […]

The EU must stop funding the brutal Cuba regime

September 16, 2024 0

Russia has always been Europe’s enemy. This is something that many of our Western and Central European friends seemed to forget since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Not so in Eastern Europe and the […]

Grybauskaitė effect? Among the candidates for Prime Minister, there is also an option that has not yet been named out loud

September 13, 2024 0

With the parliamentary elections just a month away, party leaders are already working out, in public and behind closed doors, the scenarios for the foundations of the future governing coalition and who will lead the […]