Does Lithuania have the same level of democracy that the old members of the EU have?
Lithuania has not yet reached the same level of democracy as ‘old’ members of the European Union have. The reason for this: the peculiarities of Lithuanian history (the Soviet occupation) and the intellectual weakness of the government, political corruption, moral corruption, weak, inactive and not organized enough, civil society. What is the role of Lithuania in the current European Union? In the current European Union Lithuania plays a diverse role. It shares its experience of successfully entering the EU with the states which are potential members of the EU, the Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, and others. It cooperates with democratic forces in Belarus, houses and supports the Belarus university in Vilnius. It shares its historical lessons, being under the Soviet regime, with the Western European countries. It enriches the cultural diversity of European culture, revealing the meaning of Lithuanian, the oldest living language of the mother tongue of the Indoeuropean branch. It spreads in
