US presidential elections

Lithuania president, parliament speaker, foreign and defence ministers have congratulated Republican candidate Donald Trump on victory in the US presidential election.

As the United States elects the new president, Parliament Speaker Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen notes that it is in Lithuania’s interest is to maintain partnership with its strategic ally regardless of who wins the race.

President Gitanas Nausėda says the United States will remain Europe’s most important strategic ally regardless of the presidential election’s outcome but European countries need to increase their defence budget to retain this transatlantic partnership.

Let’s face it today as it happens – US presidential elections are highly important and often concerning for the EU. And it’s not just for the high-level reasons Europeans usually discuss. Europe is becoming less central to the US, largely due to changing demographics and a fading European cultural s...

Former president of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus, who held office in 1998-2003 and 2004-2009, doubts that Donald Trump would win the 2024 United States presidential election.

Ukraine hopes to start real negotiations for European Union accession early next year, says Oleh Nikolenko, spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. Institutional reform of the EU should not be a mandatory condition for EU enlargement, he said.

Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas says that next year’s US presidential elections may shift the focus of NATO’s largest member state away from support for Ukraine to a more inward direction, something which can continue after those elections, depending on the result, reports ERR.

The coronavirus pandemic and the Seimas election have been named the key 2020 events in Lithuania, according to Lithuanian journalists surveyed by BNS.

Democratic candidate Joe Biden's victory in the US presidential election would be more favorable to Lithuania, political scientists have told BNS, adding, however, that it's too soon to speak about any potential winner.

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 coming 45th President of the United States of America Donald Trump could be the first to end up in a major conflict with his own country’s intelligence services. On Wednesday he did concede that Russia is the country which performed hacks of the Democrat party’s computer systems. He did not, how...

Lithuania's Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis sees the October parliamentary elections, which changed the country's political map, as the most important 2016 event in the country, noting that the terrorist attacks in Europe were the most important worldwide.

Two influential US Republican senators, John McCain and Lindsey Graham, are expected to visit Lithuania next week, the Foreign Ministry has confirmed to BNS.

It is understandable why at the end of this year political analysts raise questions from evermore acute angles. Edward Lucas for one has expressed fears as to whether NATO will withstand Donald Trump’s administration or if the European Union can still be saved.

Leading world’s news channels, newspapers and political commentators ring the alarm of the re-emergence of chauvinistic nationalist politics at the thresholds of Western democracies. After the rather unexpected results of the US presidential election and the Britain’s referendum, many hold their bre...

The Lithuanian State Security Department has refused to comment on the media reports about the US intelligence warning Lithuania about Russian attempts to tip election results.

Lithuania is set to step up defence ties with the United States by signing the first bilateral cooperation agreement.

The defeat of Hillary Clinton in the U.S. presidential election has resulted in well-founded concerns for the U.S. and Europe. Lithuania is no exception. Currently, our concerns about the safe future are being addressed and soothed by highest U.S. officials, including Vilnius-residing Ambassador Ann...

Donald Trump‘s victory in the US presidential elections left the world shocked. Few believed it and most were disappointed. British and other European media describes this as the greatest mistake of the American electorate in history because the real estate magnate is seen as a liar, bully, populist...