Lithuania
Lithuanian voters punish conservative government for austerity measures
By Markus Salzmann, November 7, 2012
Neither the Social Democratic Party nor Viktor Uspaskich’s Labour Party offer Lithuania any alternative to the previous government’s course of grinding austerity.
Lithuanian parliamentary commission confirms presence of CIA prisons
By Stefan Steinberg, December 29, 2009
A commission set up by the Lithuanian parliament has acknowledged that at least two sites had been established inside the country to serve as secret detention camps for the CIA’s “war on terror.”
Deepening economic crisis in eastern Europe
By Markus Salzmann, November 27, 2009
Recent reports indicate that the economies of many central and eastern European states are headed for new shocks.
Lithuania leads Baltic economic slump
By Jordan Shilton, August 11, 2009
Economies in the Baltic region are set to suffer steep declines in output this year. On July 28, Lithuania released economic figures for the second quarter of 2009, revealing a year-on-year contraction of 22.4 percent of GDP.
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