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Lithuania and its new strategy concerning relationships with national minorities

Lithuania is planning to create a long-term strategy concerning the policy on national minorities. National minorities’ representatives are also going to take part in the process of drawing it up,
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Artur Górski: “Supporting Poles in the Eastern Borderlands is our moral obligation”

Supporting Poles living in the former Eastern Borderlands of the Republic of Poland was part of the Law and Justice (PiS) party’s election program and – as the post-election reality
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AWPL MPs request Brussels to draw attention to the rights of Poles in Lithuania

The problem of discrimination against Polish minority in Lithuania is being talked about more and more often on different levels, and in different environments. The President of the European Council
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Created Polish-Lithuanian Chamber of Commerce

Officially began operations Polish-Lithuanian Chamber of Commerce. The purpose of the Chamber is to stimulate economic cooperation between companies from both countries. President of the Chamber was one of the
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Lithuania celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Act on the state language – an unfavorable

5th February, on Thursday, the Sejm Committee on matters of education, science and culture, along with the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language organizing a conference on the 20th anniversary
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Šarūnas Birutis: Law on national minorities depends on participation of AWPL in the government coalition

The Lithuanian Minister of Culture Šarūnas Birutis believes that the future of the Law on national minorities is connected with the discussion about the government coalition with or without the
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The Lithuanian ruling coalition on important issues to national minorities

As previously reported, next Monday, August 25, there will be a meeting of the Lithuanian political council of ruling coalition. Waldemar Tomaszewski, the chairman of the Electoral Action of Poles
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The autumn session of the Seimas to discuss draft bills important to national minorities, including

On July 17, the spring session of the Lithuanian parliament, which had started on March 10, has ended. During 51 plenary sessions, the MPs adopted over 300 bills. Among issues
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„Lack of willingness, pretence of political decision-making”. Comments of political scientists

The present project of the Act on National Minorities is only a warm-up, the real battle will be fought for the draft made by the working group headed by Edward
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Kidney stews with apple pie

After over two-year attempts, in Seimas, discussions concerned with the new project of the Protection of National Minorities Act have begun. The opposition, whose destruction has failed this time, was
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