The Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats, representing the opposition to the current government, on Wednesday approved of the shadow cabinet list, reported www.alfa.lt. MP Mantas Adomėnas, who was earlier proposed for the post of the Minister of Culture, was taken off the list, as the chairman …
BNS Lithuanian MEP Vytautas Landsbergis believes his participation in the election of the chairman of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats let him achieve his goal of eliminating stagnation in the party. “What did I expect? I have said that from the very start …
According to www.delfi.lt, Andrius Kubilius won in the elections to the post of the chairman of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats party (Conservatives). The 56 year-old Kubilius will lead the party for another two years. Kubilius has won over the 80 tear-old MEP …
BNS The result of the run-off in the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats’ leader election might be tight, MEP Vytautas Landsbergis said on Friday. Landsbergis will face the party’s existing chairman Andrius Kubilius in the run-off. The former state leader, Landsbergis, said he wanted …
BNS The second round of elections for the leadership of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (Conservatives) will be held on Sunday and Monday, the party’s executive secretary Raimondas Alekna told BNS on Tuesday. The two candidates with the best showing in the first …
BNS Lithuania’s former Head of State Vytautas Landsbergis, who is currently running for leadership of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (Conservatives), has noted lack of opportunities for young people and rotation in the party’s leadership. MEP Landsbergis spoke to hundreds of participants of …
Former Head of State and current MEP Vytautas Landsbergis said he had seriously decided to participate in the Conservative Party’s chairman elections and mentioned he had no intention of quitting, writes www.delfi.lt with reference to BNS news agency. “I invite everyone to actively participate in …
Former British Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher has died at the age of 87 after suffering a stroke, informs BNS. Thatcher’s son Mark and daughter Carol have confirmed the death of the historical politician. The former head of state Vytautas Landsbergis said that the British Prime …
Competition between Vytautas Landsbergis and Andrius Kubilius in the elections of chairman of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats creates a complicated situation for party members, political scientists interviewed by BNS say. Experts believe that former HU-LCD leader Landsbergis’ decision to run for the …
Former Lithuanian leader and currently MEP Vytautas Landsbergis confirmed on Monday he would run for the position of leader of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats. “Yes, I did not ask to remove me from the candidate list. I should remain on it,” Landsbergis …
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) in the United States will honor the first leader of post-independence Lithuania, Vytautas Landsbergis , with a Democracy Service Medal on Wednesday, the NED said. “For his democratic vision, his courageous leadership, and his lifelong commitment to the wellbeing …
Lithuania has consolidated its position in the world over the 23 years of independence, and nobody in the international community no longer has doubts about that, the first leader of independent Lithuania, Vytautas Landsbergis, said on Monday. “When it is, it has consolidated, it raises …
According to the MEP Vytautas Landsbergis, if foreign language characters are legalised in Lithuania, this could become a precedent for other claims against ‘discrimination’, reported delfi.lt, referring to ELTA, on 24 February. Landsbergis opposes the proposition to legalise the use of bilingual locality names in …
One should not worry about the patriotic march and organizers could not to allow skinheads in, Lithuanian MEP Vytautas Landsbergis, former chairman of the Supreme Council-Reconstituent Seimas, said on Saturday. “There are people concerned about the growing civic and patriotic awareness in Lithuania, that people …
Last Sunday’s meeting of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) Board was characterized by a particularly open self-criticism that immediately sparked a lot of discussion in the media and social networks, writes Monika Garbaciauskaite-Budriene for delfi.lt. The Conservatives failed to repeat the success …
Russia’s expansionist thinking continues, and Lithuania remains on the front line, Lithuania’s first post-independence leader MEP Vytautas Landsbergis has said. “Russia’s expansion and expansionist thinking and policies never end,” Landsbergis said at a meeting of Lithuanian independence defenders at the parliament on Saturday. “Unfortunately, this …
The first leader of independent Lithuania, Vytautas Landsbergis, on Thursday welcomed prosecutors’ decision to hand over to court a case of former Vilnius OMON commanders but says they have been late in investigating the 1991 crimes. “It seems to be long overdue but it’s better …
“I am pro-European and I do not want to see the EU crumbling”, said professor Vytautas Landsbergis after being asked about the prospects of a federal Europe. If the system is sound, it will survive, but still, Member States should first of all start taking …
Lithuanians, unlike the Estonians and Latvians, have punished the government that secured them out of one of the deepest economic and financial crises in the world. The Lithuania Tribune asks member of the European Parliament, Professor Vytautas Landsbergis, if we are witnessing a Baltic drift. …
From the perspective of a civilized observer, Lithuania had a ghastly last week. One wants to start talking about it from some distance, Rimvydas Valatka writes in 15min.lt. Historical annals tell a story about Margiris, brother to Lithuania’s Grand Duke Gediminas, who confronted a much …
