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		<title>Lithuania is stepping up on prerequisites to meet Maastricht criteria — Finance Minister</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/02/09/lithuania-is-stepping-up-on-prerequisites-to-meet-maastricht-criteria-%e2%80%94-finance-minister/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lithuania is systematically, step-by-step enhancing the prerequisites to meet the Maastricht criteria by implementing the consistent policy of deficit reduction, Lithuanian Finance Minister Ingrida Šimonytė says, 15min.lt reported on 24 January.
She told the daily “Lithuanian News” that she was not changing her opinion on the necessity to introduce the European Union’s (EU) common currency. According [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Europe’s new treaty – obligation to deal with finances in responsible manner</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/30/europe%e2%80%99s-new-treaty-%e2%80%93-obligation-to-deal-with-finances-in-responsible-manner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
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The leaders of the EU member states, currently attending an informal meeting of members of the European Council in the capital of Belgium, approved the Fiscal Compact Treaty designed to obligate the eurozone members to observe stringent fiscal discipline and pursue a responsible economic policy. All of the EU member states, except United Kingdom and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swedbank: a slight recession in the EU; Lithuania is likely to grow, wages will increase, unemployment &#8211; decline</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/29/swedbank-there-will-be-a-slight-recession-in-the-eu-lithuania-is-likely-to-grow-wages-will-increase-unemployment-decline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Swedbank states that there is a 55 percent probability that the EU’s economy will only feel slight effects from the currenteconomic crisis, according to reports from delfi.lt on 24 January This percentage shows a slight decrease from the previous forecast.However, the bank also states that Lithuania will have the fastest-growing economyin the EU,  causing wages [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A. Kubilius forecasts that Lithuania could meet the Maastricht criteria at the end of this year</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/28/a-kubilius-forecasts-that-lithuania-could-meet-the-maastricht-criteria-at-the-end-of-this-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius forecasts that Lithuania could meet the Maastricht criteria already at the end of this year, and would be able to apply for eurozone membership, delfi.lt reported on 26 January.
On Thursday morning, in an interview on News Radio, A. Kubilius did not say precisely whether Lithuania will request entrance to eurozone next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Danske: Lithuanian economy growth to slow, the eurozone crisis will not last long</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/28/danske-lithuanian-economy-growth-to-slow-the-eurozone-crisis-will-not-last-long/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Danske Bank reduced the forecast of         Lithuania&#8217;s         economic growth. According to analysts, this year country&#8217;s         Gross Domestic         Product (GDP) will grow not 3.8 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lithuania is likely to develop a constitutional act to accommadate the tightend finacial regulations for European Union members</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/22/lithuania-is-likely-to-develop-a-constitutional-act-to-accommadate-the-tightend-finacial-regulations-for-european-union-members/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 12:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lithuania will not change its Constitution to implement strict financial provisions for the European Union. Instead, it will develop a constitutional act, Česlovas Stankevičius of the Seimas‘ committee for European affairs said on 16 January, delfi.lt reports.
A majority of the European Unions members came to the conclusion, in December, that a new treaty with stricter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News from the euro zone pessimistic but Lithuania is ready for challenges — PM</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/16/news-from-the-euro-zone-pessimistic-but-lithuania-is-ready-for-challenges-%e2%80%94-pm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It  is difficult to be an optimist when listening to news coming from the  euro zone but Lithuania is ready for challenges, Prime Minister Andrius  Kubilius has said after the US ratings agency Standard &#38; Poors  downgraded European states.
“The  news coming from the euro zone do not let us be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Events of 2011 in the Baltic States</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/06/events-of-2011-in-the-baltic-states/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/06/events-of-2011-in-the-baltic-states/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the opinion of the Baltic States&#8217; journalists, the key events of the past year were the bankruptcy of Snoras in Lithuania, the dissolution of parliament and the early elections in Latvia and the adoption of Euro in Estonia, 15min.lt wrote on 30 December.
The Arab spring and the crisis of the Eurozone were selected as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lithuania still planning to adopt euro in 2014</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2012/01/04/lithuania-still-planning-to-adopt-euro-in-2014/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A top Lithuanian  government official says the country will do everything possible to join  the eurozone in 2014 despite skepticism expressed by the country&#8217;s  president, bbn.ee reports.
Virgis  Valentinavičius, an advisor to Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius, said  on Tuesday that Lithuania would be able to meet the criteria for joining  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kubilius singles out &#8220;Russian awakening&#8221; and &#8220;Arab spring&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/12/28/kubilius-singles-out-russian-awakening-and-arab-spring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 16:19:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speaking about the most important events in 2011, Prime Minister of Lithuania Andrius Kubilius points at the so-called “Arab spring”, the EU debt crisis and Russian protests, bnn-news.com wrote on 28 December.
“I would start with the so-called “Arab spring”. The second place  goes to the ongoing and quite unpredictable eurozone crisis, which is  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A. Kubilius: next year’s budget will be reviewed due to the crisis in the euro-zone</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/12/02/a-kubilius-next-year%e2%80%99s-budget-will-be-reviewed-due-to-the-crisis-in-the-euro-zone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regarding the euro-zone debt crisis, Lithuania’s next year&#8217;s budget will be reviewed, but commitments to restore pension liabilities, regardless of the situation should not change, says Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius, as delfi.lt reported on 29 November.
&#8220;We will have to change next year&#8217;s budget projections, reducing income due to euro-zone problems, which does not solve the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will we have too much Europe in Lithuania? By Girnius</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/11/22/will-we-have-too-much-europe-in-lithuania-by-girnius/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/11/22/will-we-have-too-much-europe-in-lithuania-by-girnius/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The European Union faces the greatest crisis since its establishment. The organization will survive, the question is, how much will it change? It&#8217;s also unclear whether the idea voiced by PM Andrius Kubilius that “the more Europe in Lithuania, the better (for Lithuania)” will continue to be true, Kęstutis Girnius wrote in alfa.lt on 14 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius: Problems of Euro Zone are not apocalyptic</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/11/20/prime-minister-andrius-kubilius-problems-of-euro-zone-are-not-apocalyptic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 12:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The problems within the Euro Zone should not be considered apocalyptic, according to Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius. As delfi.lt reports, The Prime Minister spoke to Lietuvos Radijas on 15 November, saying “Europe has been through several severe crises before, and as a result it consolidated and became more united.  As such, I think that, during [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No need for a non-euro EU members bloc, say Lithuanian and Danish leaders</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/11/01/no-need-for-a-non-euro-eu-members-bloc-say-lithuanian-and-danish-leaders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two of the NB8 countries, Lithuania and Denmark, are convinced that there is no need for a bloc uniting non-euro members within the European Union.  &#8220;I feel at this stage it is not the time and the place for ten our countries to meet,&#8221; Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt told journalists in a press conference [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Week in review, 22–28 October</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/10/29/week-in-review-22%e2%80%9328-october/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 14:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 23 October President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaite participated in the European Council summit. The main purpose of the summit was to discuss the euro crisis. Before leaving for the meeting, the president noted that even if Lithuania does not have the euro, its economy is connected with the entire EU economy. Therefore, inevitably, Lithuania [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Glaveckas: Euro can be expected only in 2018-2019</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 19:58:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kęstutis Glaveckas, the Chairman of Parliament’s Budget and Finance Committee, says that Lithuanian adoption of the euro can be expected in 2017-2018 at best, the most realistic period would be 2018-2019, delfi.lt wrote on 24 October.
In response to LTV’s “Week” remark that the government has to borrow 9 billion litas next year, the chairman of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It is too early to bury the euro – Lithuania’s central banker</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chances of a Eurozone country leaving the euro are  only theoretical and Lithuania’s commercial banking system is sound, sais Vitas  Vasiliauskas, the Lithuanian central bank&#8217;s governor.
&#8220;If you are asking me about a theoretical  possibility of an involuntary withdrawal from the monetary unit by an existing  member state, then I will say [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Riga Conference 2011: Baltic Prime Ministers&#8217; view on the Euro</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/09/20/riga-conference-2011-baltic-prime-ministers-view-on-the-euro/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During a press conference the Prime Ministers of the Baltic States a  journalist asked the Latvian and the Lithuanian Prime Ministers whether  it is wise to join the Euro now, when its future was uncertain.  The  Prime Minister got furious and grabbed the microphone in order to defend  Estonia&#8217;s decision [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fitch Ratings names lessons from Baltic States for Euro area periphery</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a newly published report, Fitch Ratings examines the parallels between the experience of the Baltic States&#8217; (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia) economic adjustment and return to growth and the current situation in the euro area periphery, LETA/ELTA reported.

&#8220;Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania faced severe economic crises in 2008-09 and have shown that although it was painful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our goal is not the Euro but a stable financial system – PM Kubilius</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lithuania’s main objective is not to adopt the Euro but to establish a sound and stable financial system, Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius said on 23 August.
‘The euro is just a technical tool. Our goal is to function within our income. We have to seek one thing foremost – to ensure the consistent decline in the [...]]]></description>
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