Foreign affairs
Lithuania among best EU states in terms of compliance with AAQ directive
Lithuania has been named among EU member states which effectively comply with the EU Ambient Air Quality Directive adopted a decade ago. […]
European Court of Auditors
Energy
Brussels lowers EU co-financing for Lithuania’s N-plant closure
The European Commission wants Lithuania to increase its share of co-financing for the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) decommissioning. […]
Economy
EU must help Lithuania fund Ignalina N-plant closure – PM
The European Union must continue to provide funding for the decommissioning of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) as Lithuania is not capable of financing the project on its own, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said ahead of Thursday’s meeting with EU Budget Commissioner Guenther Oettinger. […]
European Union
EU auditor calls on Lithuania to prepare for end of EU funding
With no major EU aid likely to be provided to Lithuania after 2020, the country should take efforts to ensure that the available European funds yield a return for the state, Rimantas Šadžius, a former finance minister and now a member of the European Court of Auditors (ECA), said. […]
Uncategorized
Experts and colleagues: Kaljulaid will be a bold president of Estonia
Estonia‘s President-elect Kersti Kaljulaid will be a bold head of state, Lithuanian experts and her former colleagues said. […]
Politics
Lithuania’s new finance minister: Real estate and car taxes are coming sooner or later
Rasa Budbergytė, Lithuania’s former representative at the European Court of Auditors, has been appointed as the country’s new finance minister.
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European Union
EP panel greenlights Lithuanian FinMin’s appointment to European Court of Auditors
The European Parliament‘s (EP) Committee on Budgetary Control on Monday gave a go-ahead to appointing Lithuania’s Finance Minister Rimantas Šadžius as member of the European Court of Auditors. […]
Economy
Lithuanian Prime Minister supports controversial VAT cut proposal
The currently existing value-added tax (VAT) of 21 percent can stand to be reduced, believes Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius. […]
Politics
Budbergytė named candidate for finance minister as Šadžius lands nomination for ECA
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has named Rasa Budbergytė as the candidate to replace Finance Minister Rimantas Šadžius. […]
Politics
Is Minister of Finance Rimantas Šadžius guaranteed an EU auditor’s post in Luxembourg?
Though a wave of discontent spread though the ruling coalition when Minister of Finance Rimantas Šadžius was appointed to be Lithuania’s representative to the EU’s Court of Auditors, it seems like those waves are subsiding. […]
Economy
Four Lithuanians ranked among highest earning EU officials
Four Lithuanians have been ranked among the highest earning professionals in the institutions of the European Union. […]
Politics
Candidacy for Finance Minister will not be negotiated, says PM
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said there would be no negotiation with his coalition partners of a replacement for Social Democrat Finance Minister Rimantas Šadžius, who has been proposed as a candidate for the membership at the European Court of Auditors. […]
European Union
Finance Minister Šadžius proposed for European Court of Auditors
The Lithuanian government wants to appoint Finance Minister Rimantas Šadžius to the European Court of Auditors. […]