With Saulius Skvernelis’ cabinet reaching its first birthday, a chorus of Happy Birthday is nowhere to be heard. On the contrary, experts note that this cabinet has given little basis to expect fundamental reform in […]
Rūta Vanagaitė thought she would advertise her new book by slandering partisans, while Gintautas Paluckas and his entourage are using R. Vanagaitė’s scandal to announce their shift to the left because they lack any real […]
The Lithuanian Social Democratic Party has announced having set up a new political group in the parliament after inviting MP Dovilė Šakalienė, formerly a member of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union and the Liberal Movement, as the last seventh member. […]
In 2015, with the security environment on NATO‘s eastern frontiers deteriorating as a result of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, Lithuania made a rather sudden and dramatic decision to resume the mandatory military draft and thus […]
Lithuania’s parliament on Thursday gave a green light to dispatch of more troops to international missions abroad, including increased participation in efforts against the Islamic State group. […]
Defence expenditure in Latvia is being increased at a similar rate as in Lithuania, however returning mandatory military service in the country would significantly weaken its professional army and National Guard, Latvian Minister of Defence […]
Juozas Olekas, a member of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party‘s (LSDP) political group in the Seimas, has accused the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), the senior coalition partner, and the opposition Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats of trading in influence. […]
The Parliament’s Special Investigation Commission is going to present an assessment if there are grounds to initiate impeachment process against Social Democrat Mindaugas Bastys, who is suspected to have non-transparent ties with Russian actors. As […]
Andrius Palionis, deputy chairman of the Seimas’ Budget and Finance Committee, has been elected as head of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party’s political group in the parliament, the party said. […]
Professional military servicemen and servicewomen will be able to serve in the Lithuanian Armed Forces for around five years longer than they do now. […]
Algirdas Butkevičius, Juozas Olekas and Andrius Palionis should compete for the post of the leader of Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP). This was confirmed by the chairman of the party Gintautas Paluckas, who said that […]
Party representatives vigorously call to investigate suspicious activities of their opponents, but when their own colleagues are sinking in suspicions and scandal begin to consider that perhaps the opponents are trying to cover up their […]
After the prosecutors submitted information about the concern MG Baltic carried out illegal funding through Liberal Movement MP Gintaras Steponavičius support fund and public institution “Center for Liberty Studies“, DELFI is offering access on which active political parties have created public organizations. […]
The new cabinet will aim to storm a bastion not scaled by any prior government – the state forest management system. There are plans to close down 42 forestries that have so far been operating […]
The forestry reform prepared by the “Farmers” will become the first real test of the coalition government. The Social Democrats have already declared that they will not support the reform which will merge the 42 […]
Prior to moving to the most important problem – the Astravyets nuclear power plant (NPP) project it is worth at least briefly reminding of several present actors related to the topic Tomas Dapkus writes in […]
The Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU) is considering revising an agreement on the country’s foreign, security and defense policy guidelines that was signed by parliamentary parties almost three years ago, the daily Lietuvos Žinios reported on Thursday. […]
2016 was marked by numerous terrorist attacks and concerns over a worsening geopolitical atmosphere. Thus it is important to know, will the military be able to defend and defend itself? What weaponry will be used […]
Raimundas Karoblis’ name has so far not been well known in Lithuania. A career diplomat with over 20 years of experience, he himself was surprised by the proposal to become Minister of National Defence. He is inheriting a ministry with both an impressively rising budget and at the same time – the taint of corruption, but the former diplomat tells Delfi TV that in the end he decided to operate on the idea of “If need be, then so be it”. […]
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