“I intend to achieve substantial funding for my country, in particular, through the EU Development Fund and direct subsidies to our farmers, whom I met earlier in Brussels ... Lithuania is also a donor to the EU budget. Only we give Europe not money, but labor. In recent years, Lithuania has lost 10% of its workforce, people who moved to the UK, to Germany and contributed to economic growth in these countries, ”TASS quoted him as saying.
According to him, the farmers of the Baltic states “receive the least subsidies in the framework of the EU Common Agricultural Policy”.
In August 2019, Nauseda stated that it is difficult for Lithuania to have high-level political contacts with Russia, but this does not negate the need for cooperation in the fields of economy and culture.