Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis
Politics

EU Commissioner Andriukaitis: Paksas should not be held hostage to the situation

Lithuania should adopt constitutional amendments to allow Rolandas Paksas, the impeached former president, to run for elected office, says Vytenis Andriukaitis, European commissioner for health and food safety and member of the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania. However, he is critical of a recent resolution passed by the Lithuanian parliament, advocating Paksas’ rehabilitation. […]

Vytenis Andriukaitis
European Union

EU Commissioner Andriukaitis: Selection among refugees for resettlement is immoral

EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis has slammed discussions in Lithuania about selection criteria for refugee resettlement. According to Andriukaitis, who was Lithuania’s healthcare minister before taking the job with the EU Commission, said that selections among people in the face of the current humanitarian crisis would be immoral and go against everything Europe holds as principles. […]

Vytenis Andriukaitis
Politics

EU Commissioner Andriukaitis compares refugee crisis to post-WWII Lithuanian exodus

Lithuania-delegated EU Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis says, in comment on Brussels’ proposal for European countries to share the refugee burden, that Lithuanians should remember their own emigrants who left for the West at the end of World War Two. […]

Algirdas Butkevičius, Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis
Politics

PM Butkevičius: Lithuania should avoid strong-worded statements on Russia

Lithuania should avoid making strong-worded statements about Russia, because they insult Russian citizens of pro-Western beliefs, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says. […]

Dalia Grybauskaitė, Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis
European Union

Lithuanian president slams EU Commissioner Andriukaitis over Russia embargo talks

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė sees Brussels’ proposal to Moscow to hold talks on lifting the existing food embargo with individual EU countries as a “deplorable precedent” and believes that Lithuania’s representative, European Commissioner for Heath and Food Safety Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis, must take responsibility for that, a presidential adviser said on Tuesday. […]