Dalia Grybauskaitė
Politics

President Grybauskaitė retracts call for new child welfare institution

Having suggested to set up a new institution to deal with children in at-risk families, President Dalia Grybauskaitė retracted her words, insisting her proposal was rather to institute additional functions that could be carried out by existing bodies. […]

David Cameron, Dalia Grybauskaitė
European Union

Denying benefits to EU migrants in Britain is ‘discrimination’, President Grybauskaitė says

The European Union‘s talks with the United Kingdom in the run-up to its membership referendum will be complicated, says Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė. While she supports London’s drive to make the EU more efficient and less bureaucratic, she has said that proposals to deny benefits to EU nationals residing in Britain are “discriminatory”. […]

Politics

Politicians have ‘written off countryside’ and ‘worship free market’, says ex-presidential adviser

Social ills plaguing Lithuania’s regions – alcoholism, suicide, domestic violence, abuse of children and massive emigration – are as a result of “free market worship” and the government’s failure to address widening inequalities between the country’s thriving economic centres and periphery, said former adviser to the Lithuanian president Virginija Būdienė. […]

Finance Minister Rimantas Šadžius and Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius
Economy

Government budget plans for 2016 divide experts

The Lithuanian parliament, with the blessing of President Dalia Grybauskaitė, approved a generous government budget for the year 2016 but views of whether such a budget is prudent are mixed. […]

Global Lithuania Awards winners with President Grybauskaitė
Society

Lithuanian innovators and leaders honoured by president at Global Lithuanian awards

There was a feel-good atmosphere in the Lithuanian Presidential palace in Vilnius on Tuesday afternoon as Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė hosted a ceremony honouring the Global Lithuanian Awards. The annual awards are presented to individuals who, in one way or another, have contributed to Lithuania’s welfare domestically or abroad. The President and Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius praised the initiative and made it a point that a country is more than its geographical and demographic size. […]

Dalia Grybauskaitė
Politics

President Grybauskaitė on government’s 2015 accomplishments: strategy of idleness is not productive

Looking back at the achievements of the government headed by social democratic Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius over 2015, President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that while there are considerable accomplishments, procrastination in certain area will mean that the next government will inherit serious problems. […]