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EUROPEAN THINK TANK: OPEN LETTER TO ANDRIUS KUBILIUS (PM OF LITHUANIA) Added 2010-01-07 by James Beadle, Market Melange (European Think Tank), Jan. 6, 2010 Dear Prime Minister Kubilius First, let me wish you Happy New Year and offer my congratulations on a successful 2009. It seems odd to describe a year in which GDP declined by...
LITHUANIA TO TAKE OVER OSCE CHAIRMANSHIP NEXT YEAR Added 2010-01-05 At the close of the year 2009, Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius decreed a set up of an inter-service working group to steer Lithuania’s preparations for the Chairmanship and to coordinate the actual Chairmanship (over the OSCE) in 2011.
RESOLUTE DECISIONS WILL BRING US OUT OF THE DOWNTURN Added 2010-01-04 Monday, December 21, Vilnius - President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė has signed three laws passed by the Seimas for 2010: the law on state and municipal budgets, the law on social security budget, and the temporary law on...
PRIME MINISTER KUBILIUS: A BUDGET OF RESPONSIBILITY AND SOLIDARITY ADOPTED Added 2009-12-11 Seimas has adopted the 2010 budget today. The Government had approved on measures to cut budget expenditure and raise the revenue, which resulted in cutting the budget deficit by more than LTL 2 billion (down to LTL 4,930 million, or 5.9% of GDP).
EU MEMBER STATES WILL NOT IGNORE THE PRINCIPLE OF FAIRNESS IN THEIR COMBAT AGAINST CLIMAT CHANGE Added 2009-12-11 Friday, December 11, Brussels - President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė who attended the European Council meeting in Brussels pointed out that the EU Member States would not ignore the principle of fairness in their fight against...
PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT WILL DONATE ITS NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA PRIZE TO THE EUROPEAN HUMANITIES UNIVERSITY Added 2009-12-09 On 8 December in Bonn, President of the European Parliament (EP) Jerzy Buzek received the prestigious North Rhine-Westphalia annual award the "Staatspreis" for the significant role of the EP in an enlarged Europe and the strengthening of democracy...
LITHUANIA WILL CONTINUE ASKING FOR EU SUPPORT TO ENERGY PROJECTS Added 2009-12-09 Wednesday, December 9, Vilnius - In the meeting with the President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy, President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė underlined that Lithuania would ask the European Union to envisage funds in its...
BNS: LITHUANIA TO BEGIN CONSTRUCTION ON NEW N-PLANT 3-4 YEARS - PRESIDENT Added 2009-12-08 VILNIUS, Dec 08, BNS - Construction on a new nuclear power plant in Lithuania will start in three to four years' time, President Dalia Grybauskaite said on Tuesday. "In about three years' time, four years at the latest, construction on the new...
THE FORTHCOMING EUROPEAN COUNCIL WAS DISCUSSED IN BRUSSELS Added 2009-12-07 At the European Union‘s General Affairs Council meeting on 7 December in Brussels, Lithuania‘s Minister of Foreign Affairs Vygaudas Ušackas and his counterparts discussed preparation of the European Council scheduled for 10-11 December, as well as...
THIRD QUARTER OF 2009 LITHUANIA'S GDP UP BY 6,1% Added 2009-12-03 GDP increased by 0.4% in the euro area 1 (EA16) and by 0.3% in the EU27 1 during the third quarter of 2009, compared with the previous quarter, according to first estimates released by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities....