European Court of Auditors

Lithuania has been named among EU member states which effectively comply with the EU Ambient Air Quality Directive adopted a decade ago.

The European Commission wants Lithuania to increase its share of co-financing for the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) decommissioning.

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.

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.

Estonia's President-elect Kersti Kaljulaid will be a bold head of state, Lithuanian experts and her former colleagues said.

Rasa Budbergytė, Lithuania’s former representative at the European Court of Auditors, has been appointed as the country’s new finance minister. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

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.

The currently existing value-added tax (VAT) of 21 percent can stand to be reduced, believes Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius.

Lithuania's Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has named Rasa Budbergytė as the candidate to replace Finance Minister Rimantas Šadžius.

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.

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.

The Lithuanian government wants to appoint Finance Minister Rimantas Šadžius to the European Court of Auditors.