Kirkilas, Grybauskaite trade barbs over economy

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Kirkilas, Grybauskaite trade barbs over economy

Jul 03, 2008
By TBT staff

NOT SEEING EYE TO EYE: The commissioner and the prime minister disagree on the running of the economy.

VILNIUS - Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas and Dalia Grybauskaite, Lithuania’s representative on the European Commission, reignited their ongoing feud over the health of Lithuania’s economy, with the head of government becoming so exasperated that he threatened to take his personal grievances to Brussels. For the past three years Grybauskaite, the EU’s budget commissioner, has voiced criticism of Lithuania’s fiscal policy, which continues to be aggressive despite the high-inflation environment ...

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