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Rasa Juknevičienė: what does Putin‘s aspiration to return ‘the sun of Stalin’ into Russian politics mean?

Having reappeared from self-isolation spent in one of his bunkers, Vladimir Putin has once again returned to World War II affairs after last December focussing...

Euronest Parliamentary Assembly Bureau Message to the Eastern Partnership Leaders

On the occasion of the Video Teleconference of the Leaders of the Eastern Partnership to be held on 18 June 2020,  The Euronest PA Bureau...

Statement on Belarus – Changes in Belarus are truly needed

Members of the European Parliament: Mr Andrius KUBILIUS, Ms Anna FOTYGA, Mr Michael GAHLER, Mr Andrzej Witold HALICKI, Ms Sandra KALNIETE, Ms Miriam LEXMANN, Mr...

Statement on the EU assistance to Armenia

Statement by Mr Andrius Kubilius, Chair of the European Parliament’s Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly Ms Gayane Abrahamyan, Head of Armenian Delegation to the...

R. Juknevičienė’s address to V. Jourova, a member of EC

Madame Vice-President, Thank you for being with us today. The European Union increasingly understands the dangers of disinformation. Our values, our democracies, the European Union...

MEP R. Juknevičienė: the new EU-Africa strategy – an opportunity for Lithuania

MEP Rasa Juknevičienė believes that the new EU-Africa strategy could be a new opportunity for Lithuania, which the country could make use of and benefit...

Virtual meeting “Meet Witold Pilecki: the Auschwitz Volunteer Who was Executed by Communists”

The virtual meeting “Meet Witold Pilecki: the Auschwitz Volunteer Who was Executed by Communists” is organised in the framework of the Informal Group of MEPs...

On the EU assistance for Georgia to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 crisis, protect democracy and continue reforms necessary to sustain the economic recovery

Statement by Mr Andrius KUBILIUS, the Chair of the European Parliament’s Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly The Eastern Partnership region is part of Europe...

On the EU assistance for Ukraine to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 crisis and continue reforms necessary to sustain the economic recovery

Statement by Mr Andrius KUBILIUS, Co-President of the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly, Member of the European Parliament Mr Ivan KRULKO, Co-President of the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly,...

Anniversary of the end of WWII: is the Ukrainian sacrifice forgotten?

Andrius KUBILIUS, Member of the European Parliament, Co-President of the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly, former Prime Minister of Lithuania Rasa JUKNEVIČIENĖ, Member of the European Parliament,...

EU will not tolerate being the scapegoat for the Moldovan government’s failures

Statement by: The Chair of the European Parliament’s Delegation to the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Association Committee Mr Siegfried Muresan, MEP, and The Chair of the European Parliament’s...

MEP Kubilius: Will ‘helicopters’ bring to Lithuanian business a ‘quarantine package’?

Everybody understands that an economic downturn will follow the pandemic. Economic forecasts that started as relatively mild ones now often turn towards apocalyptical. No one...

A. Kubilius: EU’s decision to allocate more than EUR 1 trillion is strong response to coronavirus crisis

MEP Andrius KUBILIUS (EPP) claims that the EU’s reaction and the money allocated for mitigating the effects of the coronavirus pandemic demonstrates the EU’s strong...

Rasa Juknevičienė: COVID-19 lessons learned

‘Lessons learned’, as they say in the army. When I held the office of Minister of Defence of Lithuania, along with the commanders and other...

Andrius Kubilius. The Commission’s Eastern Partnership strategy is disappointing

Distance should not be a criterion: Georgia is better prepared for EU membership than the frontrunners of the Western Balkans, writes Andrius Kubilius. While the...

MEP Kubilius: European Parliament has adopted the main provisions proposed by us regarding the future East Partnership strategy and the EU Russia strategy

The European Parliament (EP) adopted an important report on the implementation of the common foreign and security policy.

MEPs expressed support for Poland seeking to defend the real European and World War II history

On 15 January, the European Parliament members of the European People‘s Party group, Andrius Kubilius and Rasa Juknevičienė participated in the press conference “Distortion of European history and remembrance of the Second World War” in Strasbourg.

Rasa Juknevičienė. Putin’s parallel world and the return of Stalin

Right before Christmas, some interesting and strange things have surfaced in news reports. Not everyone has been following what was being published on the internet sites, which is why it is worth elaborating a bit more on one of those strange things, Rasa Juknevičienė, Member of the European Parliament wrote.

Andrius Kubilius. On Western strategy towards Russia

There are two lines of thinking among the politicians in the EU on relations with Russia.

EP calls for countering Russia’s attempts to whitewash Soviet crimes

The European Parliament called on the European Commission on Thursday to counter Russia's attempts to whitewash crimes committed by the Soviet totalitarian regime.

Rasa Juknevičienė. 80 years after the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, dividing lines in Europe linger on

On 23 August, Europe will mark the European Day of Remembrance for the victims of totalitarian regimes and will commemorate 80 years since the notorious non-aggression agreement between the two biggest totalitarian tyrannies of the 20th century, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

Lithuania sends 6 newcomers to European Parliament – key priorities

Lithuania is sending six newcomers to the European Parliament following the 2019 election. Many of them, however, will be joining the other five, established delegates.

Andrius Kubilius, Lithuanian candidate for the position of Secretary General of the Council of Europe, will attend meetings in Helsinki, London and Brussels

Following a decision of the Board of the Seimas, Mr Andrius Kubilius, Member of the Seimas, will attend the meetings as part of the campaign for the election of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe.