Not Enough Protein. Proteins are compounds made up of components called âamino acids.â There are about 20 common amino acids. Nine of those are considered âessentialâ because the body is unable to synthesize them, and therefore, they must be furnished by the food you eat.
Lithuania is an EU member state which joined the Eurozone by adopting the euro on 1 January 2015. This made it the last of the three Baltic states to adopt the euro, after Estonia (2011) and Latvia (2014). Before then, its currency, the litas, was pegged to the euro at 3.4528 litas to 1 euro.
Background. Lithuania, largest of the three Baltic States, regained its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. It joined the European Union and NATO in 2004. Lithuania is a parliamentary republic with some attributes of a semi-presidential system. Under President Dalia Grybauskaite, re-elected in May 2014, the country has worked to improve transparency in parliamentary elections, on judicial reforms, and on energy and financial security.