Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda on Thursday arrived in Brussels to attend his first EU summit that will focus on Brexit and the bloc's next budget.
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Gitanas Nausėda (born 19 May 1964) is a Lithuanian politician and the President of Lithuania, elected on 26 May 2019.
From 1982 to 1987 he studied in Vilnius University, Faculty of Industrial Economics and from 1987 to 1989 in the Faculty of Economics. From 1990 to 1992 he did a practice at the University of Mannheim in Germany under the DAAD scholarship. He defended his PhD thesis "Income Policy Under Inflation and Stagflation" in 1993. Since 2009 he is an associate professor at Vilnius University Business School.
Having completed his studies, from 1992 to 1993 he worked for the Research Institute for Economics and Privatization. From 1993 to 1994 he worked for the Lithuanian Competition Council as a head of the Financial Markets Department. From 1994 to 2000 he worked at the Bank of Lithuania, initially in the department regulating the commercial banks and later as a director of the Monetary Policy Department. From 2000 to 2008 he was a chief economist and adviser to the chairman of AB Vilniaus Bankas. From 2008 to 2018 he was the financial analyst as well as chief adviser and later the chief economist for the SEB Bankas president.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda on Wednesday proposed new measures to block imports of electricity produced at the Astravyets nuclear power plant under construction in Belarus.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda is on Wednesday calling a meeting of the country's State Defense Council. But the matters to be discussed at the meeting are not disclosed.
The ongoing discussions in the Baltic states on the Astravyets nuclear power plant under construction in Belarus should come down from the political to expert level where Lithuanians could prove the damage of buying electricity from this facility, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda says.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda intends to initiate a search for the remains of Juozas Luksa-Daumantas, one of the leaders of Lithuania's post-war anti-Soviet partisan resistance.
Russia is attempting to further destabilize neighboring countries and has been continuing its "appalling" military action against Ukraine for five years now, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said before the United Nations in New York last night.
In seeking to harness the advantages of the era of technological transformation, Lithuania must be also ready to face emerging challenges, especially social ones, President Gitanas Nauseda said in New York on Tuesday.
In his speech at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York, President Gitanas Nauseda unveiled Lithuania's global initiative that calls for reducing the use of fossil fuel by switching to biomass, the president's office said on Tuesday.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda is leaving for New York on Sunday to attend the UN General Assembly session expected to focus on security and climate change.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda wore a military uniform to his meeting with troops on Tuesday, saying that he wanted to be closer to them.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda's aspiration to develop ties with Belarus does not reflect any major change in Lithuania's foreign policy and is more of a tactical move, says his adviser Asta Skaisgiryte, leading the foreign policy group.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda knows for some time already what he will be doing on the night of September 10 as the Lithuanian leader, a huge fan of the Portuguese national football team for the past 15 years, says he could never skip Cristiano Ronaldo's team game with Lithuania.
As political parties in Lithuania pay more attention to the idea of a welfare state, one can expect a more socially-focused budget next year, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda says.
Tax changes always face resistance, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said on Friday in response to representatives of the ruling coalition's criticism of his proposed tax changes.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda has proposed to the country's Seimas to increase social security spending by additional 100 million euros next year and to spend the majority of it to step up increases in old-age pensions and payments to the disabled.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda says he plans to propose to the country's parliament in the fall to introduce a flat residential income rate for all types of income, and to apply different rates based on its size.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda has had an undisclosed meeting with political scientists to discuss possible changes in bilateral relations with Belarus, well-informed sources told BNS Lithuania on Wednesday.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda welcomed on Tuesday a decision by Andrius Palionis, the new agriculture minister, to set up a working group to review his predecessor's initiative to relocate the Agriculture Ministry from Vilnius to Kaunas.
Europe can no longer blindly rely on the United States for its security and must take on more responsibility, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda says.
President Gitanas Nauseda says he respects the Estonian leader's decision to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin but adds that Lithuania will not necessarily follow suit.