Education
Abromavičius was educated in Soviet Lithuania, obtaining a Bachelor in international management from the private Concordia International University Estonia.
Abromavičius was educated in Soviet Lithuania, obtaining a Bachelor in international management from the private Concordia International University Estonia.
He was Ukraine"s Minister of Economy and Trade since December 2014. Abromavičius announced his resignation on 3 February 2016. Abromavičius remained a Lithuanian citizen until being appointed to the Poroshenko government.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko granted citizenship to Abromavičius, Natalie Jaresko and Alexander Kvitashvili on 2 December 2014 to allow them to serve as ministers in the Second Yatsenyuk Government.
Ukrainian law does not allow for dual-citizenship. Abromavičius does not speak Ukrainian but is fluent in Lithuanian, English and Russian.
Abromavičius is a proponent of austerity, advocating "radical spending cuts" as well as deregulation and privatisation. On 3 February 2016, Abromavičius announced his resignation, he claimed that the key reason was a conflict with Ihor Kononenko, who is the deputy head of the Bloc of Petro Poroshenko parliamentary faction.
(The same day Kononenko stated he is ready to give up his parliamentary mandate if his faction would ask him to do so) Abromavicius also stated that Ukrainian politicians insisted that he appointed at state companies people he did not want to and resisted the economic reforms.
He also mentioned that corruption in Ukraine was too strong, and he was not willing to serve cover for corruption. Nine Western ambassadors signed a statement (published on the official website of the Embassy of Sweden) on 3 February 2016 that stated they were "deeply disappointed by the resignation" because Abromavičius delivered real reform results for Ukraine.