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2013 04 05

Lithuanian President on land sale to foreigners: Lithuanians, too, engage in land speculations

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that speculation with land must be countered through laws, adding that the threat of speculation "does not necessarily" comes from foreigners.
Dalia Grybauskaitė
Dalia Grybauskaitė / Juliaus Kalinsko / 15min nuotr.

Speculative land purchases and artificial inflating of land prices are already an existing phenomenon in Lithuania, she has told reporters in Kaunas.

"I believe that the most important is that we protect our farmer and people who work on land through laws. We need many safeguards against these things, because threats are coming not necessarily from foreigners. We, Lithuanians, ourselves do not always behave in a way that is honest and fair and in line with our country's interests," Grybauskaitė said when asked what she thought about the sale of land to foreigners.

The current ban on the sale of land to foreigners expires in May 2014.

Kazimieras Starkevičius, a former agriculture minister, has called on the government to negotiate with the European Union for an extension of the ban until farmers in all EU member states receive the same direct payments.

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