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As already announced, President Gitan Nauseda participates in negotiations between the leaders of the European Union on the new Community budget in Brussels.
EU leaders will also discuss the European Commission’s proposal to borrow € 750 billion in the markets. The BNS announced that these funds could be used to help countries affected by the pandemic, in particular Italy and Spain.
In late May, Lithuania’s appointed commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius announced that the new fund would offer Lithuania 6.3 billion. euros Of these, 3.9 billion. € 2.4 billion in grants and € 2.4 billion in EUR – possible loans. However, this amount may change after negotiations after the revision of the calculation formulas and the update of the economic forecasts.
A. Maldeikienė MEP has two main insights for G. Nausėda, the Lithuanian leader representing Lithuania in Brussels:
1. “We do not have to fight for that money. We need to listen very carefully to what our opponents say and seek consensus. And the money that Lithuania receives must be allocated very clearly to change the social model. These become those structures that would guarantee a higher standard of living and better technology in the future. Perhaps, for example, medical science, because our National Cancer Institute is famous not only for its good treatment, but also for having one of the best scientific bases, but by them up to 2 million. He did not give the locals and reagents. Allocate funds to ensure that those living homes (that is, the science valleys – Delphi) that are built near the universities not only have buildings, but also the reagents necessary to establish hedge funds to put scientists at risk, because otherwise it does not come. “
2. “Allow social science scholars to discuss without calling them ignorant of what. I haven’t heard a thing about myself saying the beginning of an elementary school textbook. Lithuania is not a dumb country that needs money all the time. Lithuania is a country that has many ambitions and can do many things with the money it already has. This country no longer needs to borrow. It is necessary to distribute the money well, to keep low-level aggregate companies away from carriers, dark factories, stop the development of all kinds of low-cost sewing companies and allocate where there may be potentially high returns, such as information and biotechnology.
The MEP openly admits that she will not vote in the European Parliament for what they decide until the day it is clear who will return the money.
“I am the only Lithuanian MEP in the Budget Committee of the European Parliament. The situation there is harsh, the majority is in the hands of Danes, Germans and Romanians speaking very strictly. Will we do something to ruin this until it is clear where we will return from? Because plans to pay from the next financial perspective are fairy tales, “said A. Maldeikienė.
He criticized the bases on which the system was built
According to the MEP, Lithuania would be the biggest possible threat if it received the money that is currently the biggest battle.
“Our socioeconomic model is made in such a way that all flows go to a very small part of the sectors. Most of it is taken by low value-added companies such as transporters, agriculture, where 80 percent. The money is deposited in the pockets of the richest farmers.
With our current model and our tax system, this would mean that those who are now wealthy would be even wealthier and divide pennies. Most people don’t even think that they give him 200 euros, and then he or his children will have to pay it for many years, and in the end he will return 1000 euros for those 200 euros, “said A. Maldeikienė.
The MEP was not optimistic that European financing, under the current system, could help achieve a strategic change in the country.
“For example, what does that look like in the regions? Regional councils are generally made up of small entrepreneurs, as well as farmers, from that city or region, and do their best to avoid normal investment in those regions. Because a normal investment would automatically increase wages in that city, “said A. Maldeikienė.
According to politicians, Lithuania is a textbook example of a state that is destroying itself with its own hands.
“If you get that money, you will continue to threaten. This country does not have a single leader who dares to say that,” said A. Maldeikienė.
Difficult money talks in Brussels
President Gitanas Nausėda, who reached the summit of the European Union, declared on Friday that the proposed reduction of so-called cohesion support in the new EU budget was unacceptable to Lithuania, BNS wrote.
“We believe that reducing cohesion funds by the current percentage is unacceptable,” said the president in Brussels.
In the EU budget for 2021-2027, cohesion support to Lithuania may decrease by about a quarter, as Lithuania’s economic indicators have come close to the EU average.
This decrease can be slightly reduced by compensating for the losses caused by emigration; According to G. Nausėda, for Lithuania it would reach almost 200 million. euros
Nausėda called the reserve “a kind of intermediate result,” but added that “it is an underestimate of what happened in the last decade, when Lithuania lost just over 10%.” its population. ‘
According to the president, a drastic reduction in funds can prevent Lithuania from catching up with the more developed countries of western Europe.
“I think cohesion and other traditional policies are still very important to Eastern European countries, because without them we cannot expect to continue our impressive success in converging to the EU average,” said G. Nausėda.
“Lithuania was one of the most advanced countries here. Why not allocate money where it is used in a very meaningful and efficient way?” Said the President.
Cohesion Policy is implemented by allocating EU funds to countries with a gross domestic product below the EU average to reduce their backwardness in the wealthier regions.
Nausėda also promised to fight for faster growth of direct payments to the country’s farmers.
Farmers in the Baltic countries currently receive the lowest direct payments in the EU, at around € 170 per hectare, compared to the EU average of more than € 250.
According to the European Commission proposals presented this year, direct payments by Lithuanian farmers would gradually increase from 2022 to 2027. EU average.
Nausėda said on Friday that he would aim for profits to rise to 196 euros next year.
The target of 196 euros was set in the budget agreed seven years ago. Brussels officials say it has not been achieved due to a sharp increase in arable land.
“The promises made to our farmers in 2013 must be kept, and for that reason we will aim for the amount of direct payments per hectare to be 196 euros starting next year,” said the president.
The President’s press service distributed an audio recording of the President’s speech. Due to the risk of coronavirus, the participation of journalists at the summit is limited.
EU leaders will also discuss the European Commission’s proposal to borrow € 750 billion in the markets. to help countries affected by the pandemic, in particular Italy and Spain.
In late May, Lithuania’s appointed commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius announced that the new fund would offer Lithuania 6.3 billion. euros Of these, 3.9 billion. € 2.4 billion in grants and € 2.4 billion in EUR – possible loans. However, this amount may change after negotiations after the revision of the calculation formulas and the update of the economic forecasts.
The EU summit will likely focus on the loan / subsidy relationship and the rules on how funds should be distributed.
Nausėda acknowledged that a consensus could not be reached this weekend.
“I think that even if we don’t make all the decisions and put all the points on i, it will continue to be a great step forward to bring the positions closer, with a better mutual understanding,” he said.
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