Following a meeting on Monday, presidential adviser Daiva Ulbinaitė said that Grybauskaitė was also critical of the state of labor exchange offices, which, she believed, needed major and urgent reforms.
"Labor exchanges as they are today, when they merely register the unemployed, are useless to the people in this country. The inactivity of labor exchanges, according to the president, is unacceptable," Ulbinaitė said.
According to head of the Lithuanian Labor Exchange, Vidas Šlekaitis, the number of unemployed youth went down from 30,000 to 25,000 people. The rate was among the highest in the EU standing at 24.2 percent in November, down by 6.7 percentage points as compared to the same month in 2011.
In the EU, the rate stood at 23.7 percent and went up by 1.5 percentage point a year later.
