Kęstutis Girnius
CORPORATE

Kęstutis Girnius. The changed Lithuanian political landscape

Politics does not stand in place, change is a near constant even if the changes are often insignificant. New political parties emerge, draw voters for a few years and then vanish. The Way of Courage, the National Revival Party, A. PaulauskasNew Union, the Modern Christian Democrat Union, the Lithuanian Freedom Union, the Labour Party, the Lithuanian Social Democratic Labour Party – this is only part of the political parties, which formed after the re-establishment of independence, most forming after the year 2000. […]

Vytautas Grubliauskas
Foreign affairs

Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette conferred upon Vytautas Grubliauskas

On 3 November 2018, the Government of Japan announced that Mr. Vytautas Grubliauskas was conferred with The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette for his contribution as the Mayor of Klaipėda City to building friendly relationship between Japan and Lithuania, especially in the fields of cultural and defence exchanges, a press release from the Japanese embassy states. […]

Raimundas Karoblis
Defence

Lithuanian defmin signs JEF deal in London

Lithuanian Minister of National Defense Raimundas Karoblis on Thursday signed the agreement on the creation of the UK Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) during his visit to London. […]

Kęstutis Girnius
CORPORATE

Kęstutis Girnius. Another bottled storm

When you’re bored or don’t know what to do, you look for ways to spend time. Youth look for leisure, Lithuanian politicians – real or supposed scandals they can use against their opponents and enemies. […]

Kęstutis Girnius
CORPORATE

Kęstutis Girnius. Vassal mentality – subservience to the USA

Some ten days ago, former Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius uncharacteristically strictly criticised Lithuanian foreign policy, as well as President Dalia Grybauskaitė. According to Butkevičius, “short sighted, uncoordinated, unilateral policies of the current government breach Lithuanian […]