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Kęstutis Girnius. The changed Lithuanian political landscape

December 27, 2018 Kestutis Girnius 0

Politics does not stand in place, change is a near constant even if the changes are often insignificant. New political parties emerge, draw voters for a few years and then vanish. The Way of Courage, the National Revival Party, A. Paulauskas’ New Union, the Modern Christian Democrat Union, the Lithuanian Freedom Union, the Labour Party, the Lithuanian Social Democratic Labour Party – this is only part of the political parties, which formed after the re-establishment of independence, most forming after the year 2000. […]

Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette conferred upon Vytautas Grubliauskas

November 5, 2018 EN.DELFI 0

On 3 November 2018, the Government of Japan announced that Mr. Vytautas Grubliauskas was conferred with The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette for his contribution as the Mayor of Klaipėda City to building friendly relationship between Japan and Lithuania, especially in the fields of cultural and defence exchanges, a press release from the Japanese embassy states. […]

LRT investigation. Cyber security centre can also spy – theoretically, it has all the capacities

November 2, 2018 Media Briefing 0

On Thursday, some members of Seimas had their emails flooded with thousands of emails. IT specialists have warned politicians that hostile individuals have bypassed the special security filters. Apparently, this was not a cyber-attack from […]

Seimas rejects resolution accusing PM of restricting freedom of speech

October 23, 2018 BNS 0

Lithuania’s ruling bloc on Tuesday mustered enough votes to reject an opposition-initiated resolution accusing Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis of restricting the freedom of speech after his office deleted the audio recording of a Cabinet meeting that discussed free access to registry data for the media. […]

Lithuanian children adopted by foreigners to keep Lithuanian citizenship

October 23, 2018 BNS 0

Lithuanian children adopted by foreigners will be able to keep their Lithuanian citizenship after the country’s parliament adopted necessary amendments. […]

Move to probe influence on politics in 2008-2016 makes headway in Seimas

September 12, 2018 BNS 0

The Lithuanian parliament on Tuesday gave the green light for setting up a new commission to investigate unlawful influence on political processes during the tenure of two previous governments. […]

Lithuanian defmin signs JEF deal in London

June 29, 2018 BNS 0

Lithuanian Minister of National Defense Raimundas Karoblis on Thursday signed the agreement on the creation of the UK Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) during his visit to London. […]

Kęstutis Navickas and Viktoras Pranckietis

Environmin works well, interpellation will fail, Seimas speaker says

June 4, 2018 BNS 0

Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Viktoras Pranckietis is convinced that the opposition-initiated interpellation against Environment Minister Kęstutis Navickas will fail. […]

Lithuania’s opposition collects signatures for environmin’s interpellation

June 4, 2018 BNS 0

The parliamentary opposition in Lithuania has collected signatures backing an interpellation against Environment Minister Kęstutis Navickas. […]

Karbauskis hints to Grybauskaitė and Kubilius: the investigation will definitely continue

May 31, 2018 Kristina Pocyte 0

With the Seimas National Security and Defence Committee (NSGK) completing its parliamentary investigation, “Farmer” leader Ramūnas Karbauskis shared his insights on Facebook and poured on questions and accusations toward President Dalia Grybauskaitė and other politicians. […]

Nine key findings of Seimas committee’s influence probe

May 31, 2018 BNS 0

The Lithuanian parliament’s Committee on National Security and Defense (NSGK) completed on Wednesday its investigation into business and interest groups’ influence on political processes and decision-makers. […]

Kęstutis Girnius. Another bottled storm

May 7, 2018 Kestutis Girnius 0

When you’re bored or don’t know what to do, you look for ways to spend time. Youth look for leisure, Lithuanian politicians – real or supposed scandals they can use against their opponents and enemies. […]

Seimas to host meeting of NATO Parliamentary Assembly committee

March 23, 2018 BNS 0

The Standing Committee of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly will hold a meeting at the Lithuanian parliament. […]

V. Nekrošius: there is no chance of snap Seimas elections

March 15, 2018 Media Briefing 0

“Not one bit. 85 votes are needed and that’s impossible. There’s no chance,” professor Vytautas Nekrošius thus described the possibility for snap Seimas elections. The situation developing in Seimas and public was discussed on the […]

SocDems to propose candidate for president, Paluckas not to run for EP

January 29, 2018 BNS 0

The Lithuanian Social Democratic Party will propose a candidate for the 2019 presidential elections, the party’s council decided at its meeting on Saturday. […]

Gintautas Paluckas and Gabrielius Landsbergis

G. Kirkilas: 2G against common Lithuanian foreign and defence policy

January 29, 2018 Gediminas Kirkilas 0

Two young political party leaders – the Conservatives’ Gabrielius Landsbergis and LSDP’s Gintautas Paluckas – two weeks ago ruined signing the traditional parliamentary political party agreement on foreign, security and defence policy for 2018-2020, which […]

Kęstutis Girnius. Vassal mentality – subservience to the USA

January 24, 2018 Kestutis Girnius 0

Some ten days ago, former Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius uncharacteristically strictly criticised Lithuanian foreign policy, as well as President Dalia Grybauskaitė. According to Butkevičius, “short sighted, uncoordinated, unilateral policies of the current government breach Lithuanian […]