The President Elect Andrzej Duda visited Brussels last Wednesday. During his stay in Brussels he met the Group of European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) in the European Parliament. The President was the member of the group before being elected as the President of Poland. Read more
The Vilnius self-government administration committee responsible for events has issued a permission to hold a protest action on Wednesday on the Square of Europe next to the building of the self-government of Vilnius (Konstitucijos avenue 3, Vilnius). Read more
Yesterday, at the Presidential Palace of the Republic of Lithuania, representatives of communities of 10 Polish and Russian schools held a protest action. Read more
Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania is more and more popular in our country. Read more
Recently there was a weird show off of the vice mayor of Vilnius, conservative Valdas Benkunskas. He proposed to move the legendary Polish Vilnius Joachimo Lelevelio secondary school from the district of Antakalnis to Zirmunai, and to make the school apply for an ‘asylum’ in the elementary school of A. Vivulskio on the Minties street. Read more
What sort of correlation is there between late Msgr. Juzef Obrembski, late Priest Antoni Dziekan, Priest Dariusz Stańczyk, late Andrzej Stelmachovski, Valdemar Tomaševski and Cardinal Henryk Gulbinowicz? All these outstanding figures were awarded the title of Honorary Citizen of the Vilnius District. Read more
Today another meeting of the Intergroup for Traditional Minorities, National Communities and Languages took place in the European Parliament in Strasbourg. On the request of the Chairmen of the Intergroup, Members of the European Parliament Jordi Sebastià (Spain), Nils Torvalds (Finland) and Kinga Gál (Hungary), the meeting was devoted to minority’s education in Lithuania. Read more
Yesterday, at the request of parents I was present at V. Sirokomlės secondary school in Vilnius. There were two policemen from the Prevention subdivision of the First Police Station in Vilnius. They were carrying out operational activities based on questioning the teachers. It was all concerning an anonymous that was allegedly received by the police. The officers questioned the names of the participants of the legal rally and school strike organized in defence of the education of national minorities. This action is outrageous and unacceptable in a democratic state ruled by law; it is an attempt to intimidate the school community which in a legal and civilized way stands in defence of their rights. Unfortunately, it was not the first case of such outrageous authorities’ actions using the police help. Six months ago there was a search carried out during lessons’ time in the Vasilijus Kačialovas gymnasium in Vilnius and in the Sofija Kovalevskaja secondary school in Vilnius. Read more
The elections were held in Lithuania last Sunday on June 7. EAPL members took part in them and according to the party their results were good. Such an assessment of the results of repeated local elections in Trakai and Širvintos districts as well as of elections’ of a member in a single-seat Varėna-Eišiškės constituency was presented by the Chairman of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania, Member of the European Parliament Valdemar Tomaševski and EAPL Seimas Faction Vice Chairwoman Vanda Kravčionok during a press conference which took place in the Seimas on Monday. Read more
Last Wednesday (3rd June) community of Polish schools in Lithuania attended the Mass in the Church of the Holy Spirit in Vilnius to pray for the protection and development of the Polish education in Lithuania. Read more
