In February it will become clear what the fate of current Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrat (TS-LKD) Chairman Gabrielius Landsbergis will be; the party will vote for a new chairman. His main opponent is […]
With less than a week to go before a deadline, 12 candidates have been proposed for the post of chairman of the conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) and three of them, including the current leader of the country’s largest opposition party, say that are determined to fight to the finish. […]
BNS Lithuania news agency lists the most important 2017 projected events on the political and public arena in Lithuania. […]
Lithuanian politicians describe as “a slap in the face” a proposed legal amendment in Poland that would equate “Lithuanian nationalism” to a totalitarian regime, saying that if it is adopted, Lithuania-related monuments may start to be demolished in the neighboring country. […]
Europe has finally admitted what has been spoken about in Lithuania for a long time now – it is experiencing information attacks from Russia. This week the European Parliament passed a resolution which states that […]
Now is a suitable time for the Homeland Union to take care of its unity, seek a new core message and perhaps – a new chairman. Such was the view of political scientist Virgis Valentinavičius talking to LRT.lt. […]
The Lithuanian parliament on Thursday passed a resolution calling on the European Union to continue its sanctions on Russia over the country’s aggression in Ukraine. […]
Following the October Seimas elections, many current members will have to relinquish their seats to newcomers. The Alfa.lt portal looks at the new politicians who can be expected to be seen in Seimas for the […]
The opposition Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democratic announced that the party’s leader Gabrielius Landsbergis would be the prime minister, if the party is involved in formation of the government after the upcoming elections. […]
The problem of terrorist attacks is not just an issue for the law enforcement authorities but for Western European society as a whole, said Lithuanian political scientist Laurynas Kasčiūnas. […]
The nationalistic Law and Justice party that recently came into power in Poland has been eyed warily by neighbors and other countries in the EU. Some have been worried about the its moves to tighten its control over the media and constitutional courts, and Lithuanian analysts are also split about what to make of the new political climate. In a show on LRT, several respected political observers discussed the ongoing events in Poland. […]
Terrorist attacks in Paris and the plane crash over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula might provide a turning point in Russia‘s relations with the West, allowing Moscow to break out of international isolation. Major Western powers might have to adopt a more lenient tone when talking to Russia in order to have Moscow contribute to fighting international terrorism, says Laurynas Kasčiūnas, analyst at the Eastern Europe Studies Centre. […]
The recent outbreak of violence in Kiev is a major test for the Ukrainian government, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says. He hopes, however, that it will not impede the implementation of the truce deal. […]
There was a time right after World War Two when Lithuanians believed that the United States of America would swoop into a Soviet-occupied country and drive the Soviets away. These hopes were rather baseless, yet the USA did stand by its policy not to recognise the annexation of the Baltic states. The start of this policy is believed to be July 23rd, 1940, with the declaration to this effect by US State Secretary Sumner Welles. […]
Lithuanian leaders will have no time for outgoing Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski who is scheduled to come to Lithuania on Tuesday to receive an honorary doctorate from Vytautas Magnus University in the country’s second-largest city of Kaunas. […]
The outcome of the ongoing talks in Minsk might be “bad” or “very bad”, says Laurynas Kasčiūnas, an analyst from the Vilnius-based Eastern Europe Studies Centre, commenting on the talks on the situation in eastern Ukraine that continue in the Belarusian capital of Minsk on Thursday. […]
With tensions flaring up again in eastern Ukraine after Russian-supported separatists attacked Mariupol, killing 30 civilians, policymakers and observers in Lithuania are particularly touchy when it comes to relations, or lack thereof, with Russia. Their ire can even fall on someone from their own team if he or she is as much as suspected of sympathies for Russia. […]
I am not a fan of the social-democratic tradition of foreign policy, especially when it comes to perpetually unsuccessful attempts of the Lithuanian left to “turn a new page in relations with Russia” and base their policies towards Poland on promises about name spelling. I dare say, however, that Dovilė Jakniūnaitė’s criticism of Lithuania’s foreign policy in 2014 is unfounded. […]
President Vladimir Putin‘s end-of-the-year media conference left little space for interpretation about Russia‘s foreign policy in the face of looming economic recession brought on by plummeting oil prices and Western sanctions. […]
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