

Socialist Victory Signals Leftist Shift in Lithuania
In just two years, the LSDP went from 9% to 17%, winning the first round of Lithuania’s local elections. But the second round may favor the conservative TS this Sunday.
In just two years, the LSDP went from 9% to 17%, winning the first round of Lithuania’s local elections. But the second round may favor the conservative TS this Sunday.
Arguing for its replacement, Lithuania’s minister of foreign affairs Gabrielius Landsbergis tweeted that “China’s 17+1 format was already redundant and divisive long before Lithuania quit.”
Moscow has threatened to take retaliatory action against Lithuania over its so-called blockade of goods headed to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.
The fence will be completed until September next year.
“We intend to not allow the illegal migrants into Lithuanian territory,” the Lithuanian Border Guard said.
Lithuania said: “We cannot tolerate this bold provocation.”
EU deploys border force in Lithuania as Belarus allows migrants to cross into the Baltic country. The EU’s border protection agency on Monday said it was mobilizing a rapid intervention force to Lithuania, where the government has accused neighboring Belarus of allowing hundreds of migrants to cross illegally into the country, Politicio.eu reports. “It seems […]