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  • European Union

The coronavirus will bring the European Union countries down to earth

Perhaps the coronavirus vaccine could, as per predictions, be created before the end of this year, Mečys Laurinkus wrote in…

5 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

It is worth knowing better the country we view as threatening

Lithuanian news media was left surprised with V. Putin’s ratings in a sociological survey being almost equal to D. Trump’s.…

5 years ago
  • Latest

Laurinkus. In the face of obvious danger, Lithuania gets moving

At the end of the year, two ideas emerged, which are worthy of spending time and energy. It is the…

5 years ago
  • Politics

Laurinkus. The lowered bar will force the large parties into moving

If actions would be made consistently, President G. Nausėda should veto the Seimas’ decision to lower the electoral bar for…

5 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Laurinkus. Relations with a weird Belarus: what plan to prepare?

With a thaw happening, geopolitics ever more courageously is making its way into the discussion arena. The global balance of…

5 years ago
  • Politics

Laurinkus. Grybauskaitė‘s policies had many stops causing disputes

I recently got acquainted with young professor T. Janeliūnas’ study D. Grybauskaitė’s Doctrine: Changes in Lithuanian Foreign Policy 2009-2019. It…

5 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

We know how to growl at Belarus, but not talk to it

Following a decade of no foreign policy-related disputes, currently, we are increasingly hearing unexpected things. The Homeland Union – Lithuanian…

5 years ago
  • Politics

I would like for Trump to win again, while for Nausėda to not lose his courage

President Gitanas Nausėda acted bravely in approving the words of US President Donald Trump: “The future does not belong to…

5 years ago
  • Lithuania

Is there a need to worry about national identity?

One of the most complicated problems that President Gitanas Nausėda is going to face is nationalism.  It is awakening in…

5 years ago
  • Latest

National security threats emerge when politicians will it

How things should be, but unfortunately currently aren’t. Information regarding member of Seimas Irina Rozova’s contacts with Russian diplomats, who…

5 years ago
  • Politics

There are many examples that show we are in the land devoid of ideas

Already in one other piece, I was left asking myself, whether we need snap elections. Immediately another question arose –…

5 years ago
  • Nordic/Baltic

Little room left in the Baltic States’ relations for the spirit of the Baltic Way

The Baltic Way greatly adjusted my, a then Sąjūdis Seimas council member and council secretariat official, forecasts. I had no…

5 years ago
  • Latest

Lithuanian foreign policy: a self-censorship problem

After almost twenty years of the voluntary political elite (with small exceptions), and sadly a considerable part of the journalists,…

5 years ago
  • Society

The Conservatives should earnestly apologise to Pagan Romuva

Avatar – this is the first comparison that came to mind after deliberations and voting in Seimas on granting state…

5 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

PACE: Russia was not confused for too long

What was surprising was not the return of Russia’s delegation to the hall of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council…

5 years ago
  • European Union

Lithuanians are only concerned with the size of MEP wages

What were the European Parliament elections in Lithuania like? Easily predicted. The large parties won, EP veterans and more conspicuous…

5 years ago
  • Politics

Lithuania is not a coincidental passenger on the European Union train

An evaluation of 15 years spent in the European Union should jokingly start with the words “Thanks to the party…

5 years ago
  • CORPORATE
  • Opinion

If Skvernelis is seeking to rally his electorate, he chose the wrong opponents

The striking teachers are awaiting Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis’ apology, but he does not appear intent to do so. The…

6 years ago
  • Politics

Political scientist: S. Skvernelis has made a massive mistake

Political scientist Tomas Janeliūnas is convinced that Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis seeks to involve intelligence services into political fights by…

6 years ago
  • CORPORATE
  • Opinion

V. Mizaras: why do I have to believe there will come no harm to the independence of the national broadcaster?

If the national broadcaster is not performing a certain goal, not ensuring certain aims, then let us sit down and…

6 years ago