2015-06-12
Valdis Dombrovskis, Vice-President of the European Commission, to visit the Bank of Lithuania
Valdis Dombrovskis, Vice-President of the European Commission (EC), responsible for the Euro and Social Dialogue, will be visiting Vilnius next Tuesday, on June 16. He will visit the Bank of Lithuania and meet with Vitas Vasiliauskas, Chairman of the Board of the Bank of Lithuania.
During the meeting, the issues of the coordination of the economic and fiscal policy in the European Union (EU), the so-called European semester, the latest EC recommendations for Lithuania in the economic policy area, the most recent economic forecasts of the EC and the Bank of Lithuania are to be discussed. It is also planned to discuss the further development of the economic and monetary union.
In 2009–2014 V. Dombrovskis was the Prime Minister of Latvia; from 1 November 2014 he works with the EC.