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Lithuania wants to keep the current scheme of appointment of European commissioners where every country delegates one member of the European Commission (EC) after Brexit, says President Dalia Grybauskaitė.
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"We support the position that all countries maintained the number of commissioners, regardless of their size," the president said in an interview broadcast on the national radio LRT on Friday morning.

Grybauskaitė is leaving for Brussels for a meeting of leaders of EU member-states where i

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