Lithuania's new President Gitanas Nauseda is expected to nominate on Thursday Saulius Skvernelis for reappointment as prime minister by the parliament.
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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 Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says more than one ministers will be replaced in the Cabinet's reshuffle, which follows the return of powers to the new president, Gitanas Nauseda.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda plans to discuss the government formation with representatives of the ruling parties later this week, and also plans to seek the appointment of women to the new government.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda on Tuesday said he's against the proposal for the European Union to impose sanctions on Poland over its judicial reforms which, critics say, violate judicial independence.
On July 16, President Gitanas Nausėda and First Lady Diana Nausėdienė will travel to Poland for their first official visit. In Warsaw, the President will meet with the highest-ranking Polish officials: President Andrzej Duda, Marshal of the Sejm Marek Kuchcinski, Marshal of the Senate Stanislaw Karc...
Gitanas Nauseda has on Friday been sworn-in and assumed the position of president of the Republic of Lithuania.
Lithuania's new President Gitanas Nauseda says he will be cool-headed and wise when working with the Seimas and government and will not aim for confrontation.
As Gitanas Nauseda is due to be sworn in as Lithuania's next president on Friday, BNS Lithuania has asked economists as well as business and trade union representatives on what the new president should do differently from Dalia Grybauskaite who has led the country for the past decade.
Gitanas Nauseda was inaugurated as Lithuania's new president in Vilnius on Friday.
Lithuanian President-elect Gitanas Nauseda has on Wednesday introduced his team, announcing that Alge Budryte, who led his presidential election campaign headquarters, will be in charge of his chancellery.
Lithuanian President-elect Gitanas Nauseda has picked Asta Skaisgiryte-Liauskiene as his foreign policy adviser, and Jurate Soviene, a deputy chairman of the country's Competition Council, as his adviser on legal affairs, several sources told BNS Lithuania.
President-elect Gitanas Nauseda is the most favored politician in Lithuania, according to the latest opinion poll released by the daily Lietuvos Rytas last Saturday.
The ruling parties are putting pressure on Speaker of the Seimas Viktoras Pranckietis, seeking his replacement, Lithuania's President-elect Gitanas Nauseda says.
Lithuania needs more air defense capabilities, Lithuania's President-elect Gitanas Nauseda told NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Friday.
Lithuania's President-elect Gitanas Nauseda says he does not back yet the idea to introduce taxes for polluting cars in the country as that would increase social exclusion.
Lithuania's President-elect Gitanas Nauseda warned on Wednesday that high social inequality poses threat to social peace in the country.
Lithuanian President-elect Gitanas Nauseda believes that Saulius Skvernelis should stay on as prime minister after his inauguration, but he does not rule out other options.
It's too soon to speak about the make-up of a future government in the absence of a coalition agreement, Lithuania's President-elect Gitanas Nauseda says.
Sociologists are already looking into scenarios, which could decide choices in the second round of the presidential elections and the leading candidate supporters’ views, as well as how they are distributed based on social and geographic parameters.
The key task of the Lithuanian president is to deal with the main foreign policy questions and together with the cabinet enact foreign policy.