Yuli-Yoel Edelstein Archives - the Lithuania Tribune

Knesset speaker in Vilnius honors family for saving Jewish woman from Holocaust

September 14, 2017 BNS 0

Yuli-Yoel Edelstein, the speaker of the Knesset, has honored the family of Ignacy and Katarzyna Bujel, who saved the life of a young Jewish woman during World War Two, at a ceremony in Vilnius, the Israeli embassy to Lithuania said. […]

Knesset speaker calls on Lithuania to take greater care of Jewish memory

September 14, 2017 BNS 0

Yuli-Yoel Edelstein, the speaker of the Knesset, says that Lithuania should pay more attention to preserving the Jewish history and heritage and calls for efforts to be made to ensure that there is no xenophobia and anti-Semitism in the country. […]

Seimas speaker, Israel’s Knesset chair discuss need for direct flights

September 13, 2017 BNS EN 0

Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis discussed with Yuli-Yoel Edelstein, the speaker of the Israeli parliament Knesset, the need to open direct air transportation between the two countries. […]

Speaker of Israel’s Knesset to visit Lithuania

September 12, 2017 BNS EN 0

Yuli-Yoel Edelstein, the speaker of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, is coming to Lithuania on Tuesday. […]

Liudas Mažylis on the danger of Astravyets: We have only one destiny – to be united

February 19, 2020 0

The opening of the first Astravyets nuclear power plant reactor is scheduled for the beginning of this year. At the same time, a movement against the power plant is being established in Lithuania. On the […]

Ongoing negotiations about European minimum wage: what to expect?

February 17, 2020 0

The European Commission has launched a period of formal consultations on the establishment of a minimum wage in all countries of the European Union. What can be expected from such a measure, how employees and […]

Mačiulis. The decade of records, prosperity and progress

February 14, 2020 0

The second decade of the 21st century, which was also the third decade after the re-establishment of the Republic of Lithuania, was exceptionally high. The 2010s in Lithuania were marked by a rapid rise of […]

Life after the division of a reduced EU cake: will we manage to pick our priorities correctly?

February 13, 2020 0

President Gitanas Nausėda travelled to Brussels to negotiate regarding the upcoming European Union budget and the 2021-2027 financial perspective. So far, the proposals for it offer no consolation for Lithuania. Based on the European Commission’s […]

Which populists will make use of the door accidentally opened by Nausėda?

February 11, 2020 0

Every Seimas elections bring new, non-traditional political parties into public view. And while some of these political movements often are laughable and might be hard to take seriously, sometimes these parties take sway over voters’ […]

Nordic business in Lithuania to government: reform immigration and decentralise!

February 10, 2020 0

Lithuanian advances in terms of innovation might be promising; however, there is no time to be complacent. During the business lunch organised by the Danish, Finnish Norwegian and Swedish, Chambers of Commerce last Tuesday morning, […]