Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaite said recently it is important that all EU member states cooperate with each other.

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By 2013,Lithuania wants to have a new natural-gas power plant, but experts caution that this will not be enough to meet the country's energy needs.

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Second,he says, Lithuania is taking a step forward into the electricity market that he adds,will change the planned system of energy into a market based system.

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She explains that she voted for herself as in her words "Lithuania's local political establishment is so boring for people, that they want to see some new faces."

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The 53-year-old Grybauskaite, who is the European Union's budget commissioner, decided to run for president as an independent after public anger flared in January over Lithuania's economic collapse.

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Lithuania isn't the only EU country with concerns over energy supplies.

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Lithuania - one of the most nuclear-energy dependent nations along with France asked the EU to allow it to keep the plant open for another two to three years.

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Lithuania's Soviet-built nuclear power plant was shut down late Thursday as part of an agreement with the European Union, ushering in a new era of energy uncertainty for the country.

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Even before the exit poll results were announced, when she cast her ballot in front of an army of reporters, Dalia Grybauskaite appeared confident she would become Lithuania's first female president.

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Arvydas Sekmokas is Lithuania's energy minister.

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The winner of the presidential election will replace President Valdas Adamkus who is stepping down in July after completing a second and final five-year term Analysts say Lithuania's main political parties and politicians are widely disliked because of the current economic downturn, and their reputations have been overshadowed by corruption allegations.

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