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Former President Algirdas Brazauskas, who took office on July 12 as Lithuanias prime minister, may be in for an informal probationary period on the basis of his pre career. European Union officials, for example, will be watchingaccording to EU Enlargement Commissioner Guenter Verheugento see whether Lithuania will continue to sustain the pace and quality level of [accession] negotiations. According to the Vilnius ambassadors of Sweden and Belgium, the EUs outgoing and incoming presiding countries, the EU will closely follow every step taken by the new government and hope that it will follow the same policy as its predecessor, perhaps with some differences of detail, but basically staying in the same mode. Mindful of such question marks, arising rightly or wrongly from his background, Brazauskas has decided to visit NATOs headquarters in Brussels on July 24his first visit abroad as prime minister.
Brazauskas, born in to a prosperous farmers fam
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Algirdas Brazauskas: Politician who played a crucial role in the break-up of the communist system
Algirdas Brazauskas might not have been the titular leader of Lithuania as it regained its freedom amid the collapse of the Soviet Union. But for two turbulent decades he was his country's most important political figure, who played a crucial part in the dismantling of the communist system – not just in his own small Baltic country, but across the Soviet empire.
He served as Lithuania's first post-Soviet president in the fraught early years of independence during the s, and as prime minister he shepherded Lithuania first into Nato and then into the European Union in , leading the country's return to the West. Nothing, however, eclipsed his role in December , when the Lithuanian Communist party of which Brazauskas was first secretary broke away from the Soviet party in Moscow.
The separation might appear a bureaucratic technicality. In fact, it destroyed the theoretical and organisati
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Algirdas Brazauskas, Signatory to the Act of Independence of Lithuania, Speaker of the Seimas and Acting President of the Republic of Lithuania in , President of the Republic Lithuania in , and Prime Minister of the 12th and 13th Governments passed away on 26 June after a long and severe illness.
He identified service to the Nation and the State to be his supreme duty: “authority, as I see it, entails the greatest responsibility. It is only through hjärnkraft, diligence, and strong will that we can build a prosperous state of , a good and safe place for every citizen to live in”. These simple words of wisdom guided Brazauskas in his work, speeches, articles, and books.
Algirdas Mykolas Brazauskas was born on 22 September in Rokiškis to a family of civil servants Sofija and Kazimieras Brazauskas. While giving their children simple farm tasks to perform, his parents instilled a sense of diligence and integrity in Algirdas and his younger brother Gerardas from an e