Ukraine's lawyers in the EU have quarreled among themselves and no longer consider themselves strategic partners
Relations between Lithuania and Poland have cooled greatly, as reported by ex-President of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus in an interview with the weekly Veidas, Rossiyskaya Gazeta writes.
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“We no longer call each other strategic partners,” RG quotes Adamkus. “There is no longer any idea that Lithuania and Poland are equal partners in the Eastern European region, they support each other in international politics, and the heads of state communicate closely in resolving issues that concern the entire Eastern European region.”
“The politician admitted that the stumbling block was the spelling of Polish surnames and place names,” the publication notes. – Poles in Lithuania are outraged that Lithuanians change their surnames taking into account the grammar of the Lithuanian language, and do not write their names as is customary in Poland. In Warsaw they hoped that the Lithuanians would agree to write two variants of surnames in documents. However, at the end of April the Lithuanian government rejected this proposal. According to Lithuanian Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Elvinas Jankevicius, double surnames in passports “will create a threat to the national security of Lithuania” and will cost the Lithuanian treasury too much. More than 200 thousand Poles live in the Baltic republic.”
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