On July 19, prof. Leonidas Donskis, politician, active public figure and an academician, will be awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters by the University of Bradford (Great Britain). (Read more...)

Haytham Al-Maleh, a prominent Syrian human rights lawyer and former President of the Human Rights Association in Syria, was released from a prison in Damascus in the beginning of March. He had been sentenced for having merely criticised his country`s political and judicial system. MEP Leonidas Donskis was struck by a story of this courageous dissident and undertook actions to draw EP`s attention to the situation of Haytham Al-Maleh. (Read more...)

Leonidas Donskis spent the holiday weekend of the 11th of March in England. The MEP visited London as well as Cambridge, where he met the Lithuanian community and gave public lectures at two universities. (Read more...)

Notwithstanding the criticism of the international community after the presidential elections in Belarus last December and subsequent sanctions on Minsk, the situation in this Lithuanian and EU neighbour is not improving. (Read more...)

During the plenary session in Strasbourg on 7-10 March, the MEPs discussed developments in Lybia, the situation of political prisoners in Belarus, assessed the progress of Turkey and Montenegro towards EU membership. The MEPs also commemorated the 100th anniversary of the International Women`s Day and discussed challenges that Roma are facing in the EU. (Read more...)

Marking the 21st Anniversary of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania, the President of the European Parliament Jerzy Buzek stated: (Read more...)