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Making predictions about the 2019 presidential elections today is like trying to predict the end of the seventh season of Game of Thrones just as the first season begins. However perhaps the competing “families” are already visible, former political advisor to MP Andrius Kubilius and the Conservativ...
President Dalia Grybauskaitė, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis and Ramūnas Karbauskis, chairman of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), are ranked as Lithuania's most influential politicians, the Delfi.lt news website reported, citing the results of two separate opinion polls.
Lithuanian MPs Julius Sabatauskas and Andrius Palionis on Friday announced plans of running for leadership of the ruling Lithuanian Social Democratic Party.
MEP Zigmantas Balčytis will run for the post of leader of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP), but his colleague Vilija Blinkevičiutė is unlikely to join the leadership race after being chosen to head an important committee at the European Parliament (EP).
BNS Lithuania news agency lists the most important 2017 projected events on the political and public arena in Lithuania.
Social democratic and liberal members of the European Parliament are the most productive Lithuanian delegates, according to mepranking.eu, a website analysing the record of MEPs.
At the European Parliament (EP) vote in Brussels on Thursday on distribution of 120,000 refugees among European Union (EU) member-states, the opinions of Lithuanian MEPs split.
Lithuanian MEPs Vilija Blinkevičiūtė and Zigmantas Balčytis of the Social Democrats and Liberal Antanas Guoga were the country's most active members in the European Parliament over the 1st year of their term, the Lietuvos Žinios daily reports.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' speech in Strasbourg on Wednesday did not convince Lithuanian MEPs who said they only heard excuses but not real proposals on ways to deal with the debt crisis after Greek voters turned down creditors' demands in a referendum on Sunday.
Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Vilija Blinkevičiūtė together with her colleagues has proposed that 2016 should be named the European year to fight violence against women. The initiative has been supported by over 400 MEPs.
