Person: Grybauskaite

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business

EU fund 'will kick-start economies': EU president

European Union leaders will create a strategic investment fund that could generate up to €315bn in private and public-sector money to upgrade infrastructure, jump-start sluggish economies and ignite job growth.

Sly attempts to rope EU into a war with Russia on Ukraine’s behalf

business

EU threatens more EU sanctions

world

Putin 'in state of war with Europe'

world

Envoys sacked over YouTube row

world

EU budget chief becomes Lithuania's first woman president

EU budget chief tipped to lead Lithuania

European Union budget chief Dalia Grybauskaite was the strong favourite to win Lithuania’s presidential election as crisis-weary voters went to the polls today.

Sun, 17 May, 2009

Budget commissioner Grybauskaite is long an opponent of farm funding

AS early as 2004, before she became EU Commissioner for financial programming and the budget, Dalia Grybauskaite said agriculture spending was the EU’s central budget problem.

Thu, 20 Nov, 2008

European Union ‘should reduce spend on agriculture’

The European Union should reduce its agriculture spending that accounts for 40% of the €129 billion budget and focus instead on forward looking areas such as climate change, energy and job creation, the European Commission’s budget chief has said.

Thu, 13 Nov, 2008

EU budget to be €29 billion more than agreed at summit

THE European Union’s budget will be €29 billion bigger than everyone thought when it was agreed at a summit hosted by British Prime Minister Tony Blair last December, it was claimed yesterday.

Tue, 18 Apr, 2006

EU commissioner critical of British accounting

EU Budget Commissioner Dalia Grybauskaite slammed Britain’s defence of its EU rebate today, saying London was using “creative accounting” in its arguments to keep the multi-billion-euro payback.

Fri, 25 Nov, 2005