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On Sunday, the municipal council elections concluded, with Lithuania having decided, who will lead it for the coming four years. That said, in a Monday press conference to discuss the election results, Vilnius University Institute of International Relations and Political Science (VU TSPMI) director,...
United States President Donald Trump used the visit of the three Baltic presidents for domestic politics, however, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia managed to align their interests with those of the White House, political scientists say.
A large enthusiast and captivated audience came out on a very cold Saturday afternoon to hear former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt speak at the annual Vilnius Book Fair. Verhofstadt is currently fraction leader of the Liberal Group in the European parliament. However, on Saturday his main m...
Two-thirds of Lithuanians have no confidence in US President Donald Trump, an opinion poll showed on Thursday.
The warnings made by Georgia's former president Mikheil Saakashvili during a visit in Lithuania on Tuesday about Russia's readiness to annex Belarus are not grounded, political scientists say.
An increase in Lithuania's official emigration rate in the first half of 2017 could be due to living standard inequalities or rising prices and another possible reason is that more people reported their departure this year, experts told BNS.
The victory by centrist Emmanuel Macron in the French presidential elections will mitigate the concerns in Lithuania over the Paris attitude towards Russia, says Ramūnas Vilpišauskas, director of the Vilnius University's International Relations and Political Science Institute.
Moderate political parties' success in the Dutch parliamentary election shows that Europe may be able to withstand rising far-right populism, but it is too early to say that tensions have subsided, Lithuanian political analysts said on Thursday.
The first round of Seimas elections in the single-mandate electoral districts only elected three members of Seimas. The remaining 68 districts will be voting on October 23 in a second round. It will feature the two candidates with the highest vote count in each district.
The British Chamber of Commerce in Lithuania hosted a half day conference last Tuesday (27th September), Brexit and Beyond: Political and Business implications at which the Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, Raimundas Karoblis joined Claire Lawrence the British Ambassador, in giving two keynote addr...
The defense tactic used by Eligijus Masiulis, the Lithuanian Liberal Movement's former leader who is suspected of bribery, is unlikely to convince Liberal voters and help the party regain their trust, a political analyst said.
