Lithuania’s Grybauskaite left without a top Brussels job, EC commissioner vacancy still up for grabs

  • 2019-07-31
  • Lucas Baltis
The new term European Parliament has appointed two of the top four European Union jobs to women, but Dalia Grybauskaite, who just finished her term as president, was not among them. Now heavyweights of Lithuanian politics jostle for Lithuania’s commissioner post in the new European Commission. Meanwhile, Latvia and Estonia already appointed their EC representatives. Why did Grybauskaite, who rubbed elbows with German chancellor Angela Merkel for the last 10 years, come empty-handed from the key EU post division?  Officially, her nonpartisansh...
 
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