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Dalia Grybauskaite

Type: Person

Name: Dalia Grybauskaite

Title: President of Lithuania (JUNE 2009)

Nationality: Lithuania

Fact Sheet: Biography for Dalia Grybauskaite

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 3 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

CIA 'ran secret prison for alQaeda' in Lithuanian riding school

The allegations have sparked a parliamentary inquiry after President Dalia Grybauskaite said she harboured "indirect suspicions" that such a facility existed.According to unnamed former intelligence operatives quoted by ABC News, the CIA built the secret ... [Telegraph - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Central Intelligence Agency, Lithuania, Dalia Grybauskaite, Allegation, Vilnius

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Secret CIA Interrogation Site Revealed in Lithuania

The location of a secret site allegedly used by the CIA to interrogate suspects has been revealed near the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius. The site is reportedly one of eight such secret centres around the world. The Australian newspaper, The Age, quoted ... [Digital Journal - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Lithuania, Central Intelligence Agency, Interrogation

First Reported 7 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 1 Documents

Herman van Rompuy

A freshman at the EU summit

‘Informal meeting of heads of state or government, Brussels 19 November 2009’, that’s the master title of my accreditation badge. The word ‘informal’ hides the possibility of a significant moment in the history of the European Union. Tonight the leaders ... [Cafebabel - 7 hours ago]

Entities: European Union, Herman van Rompuy, Justus Lipsius, Brussels

First Reported 11/18/2009 - Updated 11/18/2009 - 1 Documents (in Environment)

EU agrees deal on helping poor nations fight warming

BRUSSELS: EU leaders on Friday reached a compromise deal on how to help developing nations tackle climate change, but without putting a figure to Europe's contribution, officials said. 'We have an agreement,' said Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, ... [Times of India - 11/18/2009]

Entities: European Union, Nationalism, Copenhagen, Global Warming/Climate Change, Brussels

First Reported 11/09/2009 - Updated 11/09/2009 - 3 Documents (in Economy)

Andrius Kubilius

Lithuania president objects to social tax rise, pension cuts

VILNIUS, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Lithuania President Dalia Grybauskaite said on Monday she supported the government's overall draft budget for 2010 but that she would veto any social tax increase or pension cuts if there was no compensation.Lithuania's coalition ... [Forbes.com - 11/09/2009]

Entities: Lithuania, Taxes, Andrius Kubilius, Dalia Grybauskaite

First Reported 10/30/2009 - Updated 10/30/2009 - 5 Documents (in Environment)

European Union

EU to help poor nations fight climate change

Entities: European Union, Nationalism, Global Warming/Climate Change

First Reported 10/23/2009 - Updated 10/23/2009 - 3 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Central Intelligence Agency

Ex-Lithuanian president says he did not have info on CIA jail outsideVilnius

VILNIUS. Oct 23 (Interfax/BNS) - If media reports alleging that the CIA ran a secret prison in Lithuania turn out to be true, the people who allowed for its existence need to be held liable, said former Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus. Adamkus himself ... [Interfax - 10/23/2009]

Entities: Central Intelligence Agency, Valdas Adamkus, Vilnius

First Reported 10/29/2009 - Updated 10/29/2009 - 4 Documents (in Environment)

EU battles to agree on climate funding

European leaders have failed to agree on how to fund the fight against climate change, leaving their legal beagles to try to hammer out a new proposal overnight, the EU presidency says.Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, whose country holds the ... [Sydney Morning Herald - 10/29/2009]

Entities: European Union, Climate, Lithuania, Copenhagen, Emission

First Reported 10/30/2009 - Updated 10/31/2009 - 3 Documents (in Environment)

'Developing world needs $150bn to fight climate change'

* EU leaders ask developed countries to cut emissions by 80-95 percent BRUSSELS: EU leaders on Friday agreed that developing nations will need 100 billion euros per year by 2020 to tackle climate change, but failed to put a figure to Europe's own contribution ... [Daily Times - 10/31/2009]

Entities: European Union, Developing World, Global Warming/Climate Change, Copenhagen, Nationalism

First Reported 11/12/2009 - Updated 11/12/2009 - 2 Documents

Barroso unlikely to get more women in next commission

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso on Thursday (12 November) admitted he is unlikely to achieve his aim of getting more women commissioners in the next commission than is currently the case.To date it is clear that ... [EUobserver - 11/12/2009]

Entities: José Manuel Barroso, European Union, Rumiana Jeleva, Johannes Hahn

First Reported 11/05/2009 - Updated 11/05/2009 - 2 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Lithuania parliament to probe CIA jail allegations (Reuters)

VILNIUS (Reuters) Lithuania's parliament voted on Thursday to investigate allegations that the Baltic state hosted a secret CIA prison for al Qaeda suspects.U.S. broadcaster ABC news reported in August that Lithuania was the third European country after ... [Yahoo! News - 11/05/2009]

Entities: Lithuania, Central Intelligence Agency, Allegation, Vilnius

First Reported 11/07/2009 - Updated 11/07/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Gay rights a tall order

VILNIUS - TWENTY years on from the fall of the Iron Curtain, Eastern Europe's homosexuals say they still face a tough struggle for equal rights, plus the kind of verbal abuse and violence rarely seen in the West anymore.The picture is similar from the ... [Straits Times - 11/07/2009]

Entities: Gay Rights, Homosexuality, Lithuania, Homophobia

Quotes

"in principle, i don't have major objections to the central government budget" Grybauskaite told the press conference after meeting with the Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius and other coalition leaders

Lithuania president objects to social tax rise, pension cuts [Forbes.com - 11/09/2009]

...for the social fund, which may produce a deficit of over 2 billion litas in 2010 as unemployment surges and the need for social benefits grows. "i would not sign the social security fund budget bill, if there will remain an increase of social tax by 2 percentage points..." Grybauskaite told journalists...

Lithuania president objects to social tax rise, pension cuts [Interactive Investor International - 11/09/2009]

But Ms Grybauskaite said the allegations of a CIA prison should be taken seriously. "i have indirect suspicions - and not only me, but the entire international community" she said

MPs demand CIA prison probe [Morning Star Online - 10/23/2009]

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EXCLUSIVE: CIA Secret 'Torture' Prison Found at... [ABC News - 11/18/2009]
EU agrees deal on helping poor nations fight wa... [Times of India - 11/18/2009]
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Gay rights a tall order in ex-communist bloc [Philippines Daily Tribune - 11/09/2009]
Gay rights a tall order [Straits Times - 11/07/2009]
No gay pride in E Europe [iafrica.com - 11/06/2009]
Gays = mass destruction [iafrica.com - 11/06/2009]
Gay rights a tall order in ex-communist bloc [France24 - 11/06/2009]
Lithuania parliament to probe CIA jail allegati... [Yahoo! News - 11/05/2009]
Lithuania parliament to probe CIA jail allegations [Reuters - 11/05/2009]
EU summit reignites 150-billion-dollar climate row [Botswana Gazette - 11/05/2009]
Lithuania works to improve Russ... [Baltic Times - 11/02/2009]

Blogs

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President Lamy? [Centre for European Reform - 10/20/2009] by Hugo BradyEU leaders are racking their brains to come up with candidates for the future presidency of the European Council. The job, to be created by the nearly-ratified ...
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Today in Russian Business - August 19, 2009 [Robert Amsterdam - 08/19/2009] Following the deadly Sayano-Shushenskaya accident, Rusal could lose up to as much as 500,000 tons of aluminium production, which is equal to around 11% of 2008's ...
Baltic Pain [Robert Amsterdam - 08/04/2009] Gideon Rachman's column in the Financial Times focuses on the ongoing economic troubles in the Baltics - and the threat it poses to European and Russian recovery.The ...
August 4 2009: Drown out the alarms [The Automatic Earth - 08/04/2009] Harris & Ewing Elk 1916Elks parade in Baltimore. The message on the paddle fans: "Bromo-Seltzer" Ilargi: It might be funny to let ‘er rip into Niall Ferguson and ...

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