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Bačiulis, Audrius
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3 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Charlemagne Prize 2013 honours Lithuania
Dalia Grybauskaitė, president of Lithuania and former EU budget commissioner, has been awarded the International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen 2013 for her services to Europe. The weekly magazine Veidas is delighted, seeing this as an honour for the whole country: "Grybauskaitė has joined the elite club of the EU in which in the past two decades only five Central and Eastern European politicians have found a place. … In explaining the decision to give Grybauskaitė the prize she was described as a resolute politicians who is profoundly committed to her work and duties, her country and all Europe, and whose skills were particularly vital when the young EU members were hit by the financial crisis in 2008. … The prize is a very good indication that Lithuania enjoys a better status than ever in the eyes of the Germans and above all the political and financial elites. In the past decades there has been no more propitious moment for us to nurture our relations with Germany. The main thing is that we stick to this course."
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More from the press review on the subject » EU Policy, » Germany, » Lithuania, » Europe
Lithuania Catholic in spite of everything
According to the most recent census, 77.3 percent of Lithuanians are Catholic. The weekly magazine Veidas is amazed in view of the country's history: "In the decade since the last census, the number of Catholics in our country has decreased by just 1.7 percent. So you could say that Lithuania is and remains a Catholic country. The number of Catholics is astonishingly high considering that for five decades during the Soviet occupation Lithuanians were raised in the spirit of belligerent atheism. The Church was persecuted and intimidated, worshippers were ridiculed as unscientific and strange. After reconquering its independence and integrating into the Western world, Lithuania now finds itself in the distinctly secular European Union, which is intolerant of the Christian Church and Christianity while fundamentally remaining a socialist community."
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More from the press review on the subject » Religion, » Lithuania, » Europe
Sex scandal? Lithuanians not impressed
Gintaras Steponavicius, Lithuania's minister of education has been in the headlines for days. ... Half a year ago the young father is said to have sent a suggestive text message to a controversial young fellow party member, a woman who regularly appears on TV programmes as a sex expert. But these kinds of scandals have no influence on political careers in Lithuania as European Union member, suggests the online portal of the weekly paper, Veidas: "Lithuanian politicians have been through numerous love affairs over the past two decades, marrying and divorcing, changing partners, taking semi-official and official lovers. But in fact their political success or failure was never impacted by these so-called sex scandals. … Look, we're living in Europe and we judge the extramarital sex lives of our elected leaders in a European manner - that is, with a rather indulgent and lightly mocking undertone."
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More from the press review on the subject » Society, » Lithuania, » Europe
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