Andrius Kubilius

Andrius Kubilius (2011)

Andrius Kubilius (born December 8, 1956 in Vilnius ) is a Lithuanian politician, member of the European Parliament since July 2019 , former opposition leader of the Seimas . He was the country's Prime Minister from November 1999 to October 2000 and from 2008 to 2012 . He headed the Patriotic Union (Conservative) party ( Tėvynės Sąjunga ) until March 2015.

Education, job and life

Andrius Kubilius with Ms. Rasa Kubilienė and the then Seimas President Arūnas Valinskas with Ms. Inga Valinskienė (Vilnius, July 2009)

Kubilius was born into a family with a scientific background. His parents were Janina Zeka-Kubilienė and Vytautas Kubilius - both graduated and habilitated literary scholars. His younger sister is called Rūta. He attended the 22nd secondary school from 1963 to 1974 (now Mikalojus-Daukša secondary school ). Since the school had a focus on literature, his résumé seemed to be mapped out. A work in Russian on Nobel Prize winner Ernest Rutherford eventually brought him to physics.

From 1974 he studied physics at Vilnius University , where he graduated in 1979 . The aspiration followed from 1981 to 1984 . His dissertation on amorphous semiconductors was translated into English and published internationally, which led to a lot of positive feedback. He then worked at the same university as an engineer and research assistant in a laboratory.

He is married to Rasa Kubilienė, a violinist in the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra . She is the president of the board of directors of the “Help for Lithuanian Children” foundation. They have two sons together, Andrius and Vytautas. He speaks Lithuanian, Russian and English. He lists hiking, cycling and boating as hobbies.

politics

In 1988 he joined the Lithuanian reform movement Sąjūdis , of which he was executive secretary between 1990 and 1992. In 1992 he was elected member of the Seimas (Lithuanian parliament) for the first time , to which he has been a member since then. In May 1993 he moved from the right wing of the Sąjūdis to the newly formed Party of the Fatherland Union ( Tėvynės Sąjunga ). At first he was chairman of the faction of the Fatherland Union in the Seimas. After the election success of the conservative parties in 1996, he was the first deputy chairman of parliament until 1999.

In March 2015 he surprisingly announced his resignation from a renewed candidacy for the party chairmanship and instead supported Gabrielius Landsbergis , who won the election and has been party chairman since then. From May 23, 2003 to March 16, 2015 he was chairman of TS-LKD. In 2008 he was elected Seimas in the constituency of Antakalnis .

On May 19, 2015 it became public that he belongs to the official advisory group of the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko - as well as: Gela Beschuaschwili , Jacek Saryusz-Wolski , Carl Bildt , Mikuláš Dzurinda , Micheil Saakaschwili , Aleksander Kwaśniewski , Elmar Brok and Anders Åslund .

Kubilius is one of the 89 people from the European Union against whom Russia - as it became known at the end of May 2015 - imposed an entry ban.

Prime Minister and opposition leader

2009

After only 5 months in office, the then Prime Minister Rolandas Paksas resigned on November 3, 1999 . After a brief, provisional interim government by Irena Degutienė , Kubilius was elected Prime Minister of the 10th Cabinet on November 3, 1999 . On October 26, 2000, he resigned from this post after his party suffered a significant defeat in the parliamentary elections on October 8, 2000 and the loss of 61 of their 70 seats to date. His predecessor Paksas became the new prime minister.

After his resignation, Kubilius was in the opposition and from 2005 to 2008 opposition leader . After the resignation of Prime Minister Algirdas Mykolas Brazauskas on May 31, 2006, he was considered a promising candidate for his successor. However, Gediminas Kirkilas was elected . In 2006 he was re-elected as deputy chairman of parliament and chairman of the Committee on Relations with the European Union .

In the parliamentary elections in Lithuania in 2008 , Kubilius ran again as the top candidate of Tėvynės Sąjunga . After his party's election victory (44 of the 141 seats), his party formed a four-party coalition. On November 27, 2008 he was elected Prime Minister of Lithuania for the second time by parliament with the votes of this coalition and other members of parliament with 89 out of 141 (with 27 against). Until December 13, 2012 he headed the 15th Lithuanian cabinet . This makes him the first Prime Minister of the Second Republic to rule for a full legislative period .

Since the parliamentary elections in Lithuania in 2012 , the TS-LKD has been in the opposition again and Kubilius has been parliamentary group chairman and opposition leader again since December 18, 2012. Kubilius was initially on the European Affairs and Economic Committee. He left this in May 2013 and moved to the finance committee. He is also a member of the Energy Commission.

In the 11th Seimas he was most recently a member of the following parliamentary groups (as of June 2015):

• Conference of Group Chairmen
• Parliamentary Group on Local Affairs and Civil Society
• Parliamentary group "For the Family"
• Parliamentary Group in Support of the Lithuanian Armed and Volunteer Forces
• Provisional group for relations with the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people
• Inter-Parliamentary Relations Group with the United States
• Group of Inter-Parliamentary Relations with Estonia Republic of Estonia
• Inter-Parliamentary Relations Group with the Knesset of Israel
• Group of Inter-Parliamentary Relations with Croatia Republic of Croatia

Awards

• 2000: Lithuanian Freedom Medal
• Grand Cross of the Norwegian Order of Merit
• 2004: Cross of the Commander of the Grand Duke Gediminas Order
• 2007: Estonian Order of the Marienland Cross of the 3rd category
• 2009: Grand Cross of the Spanish Order de Isabel la Católica
• 2012: World Leader Circle Award from the Economic Faculty Association Rotterdam (EFR)

Fonts

• Kodėl krepšinis Lietuvoje gražesnis už politiką (Eng. Why basketball is more beautiful in Lithuania than politics) . Versus aureus Leidykla, Vilnius 2004, ISBN 9955-601-26-4 .
• Kur atėjome ir Kur einame? (Eng. Where do we come from and where are we going?) . Democratinės politikos institutas, Vilnius 2005, ISBN 9955-9511-2-5 .
• Conservatyvioji bendruomenė (German Conservative Society) . Democratinės politikos institutas, Vilnius 2006, ISBN 9955-568-30-5 .

literature

• Andrius Kubilius , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 11/2013 of March 12, 2013, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

Commons : Andrius Kubilius  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on Andrius Kubilius in the Members' database of the European Parliament
• Biographies on the Seimas homepage: 1996–2000 , 2000–2004 , 2004–2008 , 2008–2012 and 2012–2016 (English)
• Biography on the homepage of TS-LKD (Lithuanian)
• Andrius Kubilius on Facebook and Twitter

Individual evidence

1. ↑ TS-LKD: A. Kubilius. Nebijokime pasitikėti naująja karta. (No longer available online.) In: tsajunga.lt. Tėvynės Sąjunga - Lietuvos krikščionys demokratai, March 30, 2015, archived from the original on June 3, 2015 ; Retrieved June 3, 2015 (Lithuanian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Seimas: Andrius Kublius, Member of the Seimas 1996-2000. In: lrs.lt. Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, accessed June 3, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Audronė V. Škiudaitė: Literatūros dirvonus apleido hab. dr. Janina Žėkaitė. In: xxiamzius.lt. XXI Amžius, accessed June 3, 2015 (Lithuanian). 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Liudvikas Gadeikis: Kubilius: kita gyvenimo pusė. In: alfa.lt. January 3, 2009, accessed June 3, 2015 (Lithuanian). 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Seimas: Andrius Kublius, Member of the Seimas 2008–2012. In: lrs.lt. Lietuvos Respublikos Seimas, accessed June 3, 2015 (Lithuanian). 
6. ↑ Gabriel Gorbačevski: Elections in TS-LKD: experience or new vision of leadership? In: visegradplus.org. Visegrad Plus, March 17, 2015, accessed June 3, 2015 . 
7. ^ Editing: Elmar Brok in Poroshenko's advisory group. In: elmarbrok.de. Elmar Brok, May 19, 2015, accessed June 3, 2015 . 
8. ↑ Andreas Borcholte: Entry bans: Russia accuses EU politicians of showing behavior. In: Spiegel Online. May 31, 2015, accessed June 1, 2015 . 
9. ↑ Russian Foreign Ministry: Russian Visa Blocking List. (PDF; 23 kB) In: yle.fi. May 27, 2015, accessed June 5, 2015 . 
10. ^ Editing: Textarchiv - Via Baltica Mainz - October 2000. In: via-baltica.uni-mainz.de. Via Baltica University Mainz, archived from the original on January 25, 2001 ; Retrieved June 3, 2015 . 
11. ↑ ^{a b} Seimas: Andrius Kubilius, Member of the Seimas 2004–2008. In: lrs.lt. Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, accessed June 3, 2015 . 
12. ↑ Volker Schmidt: Fear of Moscow. In: Eurasian magazine. June 30, 2006, accessed June 3, 2015 . 
13. ↑ Eglė Digrytė: Seimas pritarė A. Kubiliaus kandidatūrai į premjerus. In: delfi.it. November 27, 2008, accessed June 3, 2015 (Lithuanian). 
14. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Seimas: Andrius Kubilius, Member of the Seimas 2012–2016. In: lrs.lt. Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, accessed June 3, 2015 . 
15. ^ EFR: World Leader Cycle. (No longer available online.) In: efr.nl. Economische Faculteitsvereniging Rotterdam (EFR), archived from the original on June 3, 2015 ; accessed on June 3, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

predecessor	Office	successor
Rolandas Paksas Gediminas Kirkilas	Prime Minister of Lithuania 1999–2000 2008–2012	Rolandas Paksas Algirdas Butkevičius