Grybauskaitė on the agreement of the leaders of the EU countries: borrowed funds can be paid by introducing new taxes



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“At the moment, it is proposed to carry out the transfer by introducing new taxes, and each country will have to collect a part of the taxes to be introduced, be it a corporate tax or several environmental taxes. If they occur, the States Members will have to refund part of these taxes to the European budget or, if there is no agreement on new taxes, (…) contributions to the EU budget may increase in the long term – not in 5 years, not 10, but 30 and more years, ”D. Grybauskaitė told LRT radio on Tuesday.

Compared to the previous one, in this financial perspective, for 2021-2027 Lithuania managed to negotiate 1.7 billion. The total amount of EU funds allocated to Lithuania amounts to € 14.5 billion. euros

LTL 6.2 billion has been allocated to Lithuania for the implementation of the cohesion policy. euros A total of € 5 billion will be allocated to agricultural financing. euros

The EU has contributed 490 million euros. € 189 million for the closure project of the Ignalina nuclear power plant and € 189 million for the implementation of the Kaliningrad special transit scheme. financing in euros. An additional $ 1.4 billion has been allocated for the development of Rail Baltica. quantity. The focus has been on military mobility, which has a budget of 1,500 million euros. financing in euros.

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda said that leaders of EU member states agreed on a common EU response to the health, social and economic crisis caused by the pandemic. To this end, the EU Resuscitation and Resilience Fund is being created, in which LTL 2.4 billion has been allocated to Lithuania. euros

The President noted that, if necessary, Lithuania could also borrow up to 4.7 percent from the Resuscitation and Resilience Fund. of Lithuania’s gross national product or 2.2 billion. to implement reforms.

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