President in the Media

2011-11-08 The Mainichi Daily News: "Lithuania : planning new nuclear power plant / Hitachi-GE as “strategic investor” / President Grybauskaite trusts in Japanese technology"

After Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster, Lithuania announced a decision to order new nuclear power plant with Japan. Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaite granted an exclusive interview to Mainichi Shimbun in Vilnius, and showed her expectation to quality of Japanese high technology.

2011-06-27 Eastern Europe Pressure to Aid Greece ‘Not Good,’ Lithuania Says

Pressure on eastern European countries to aid richer euro-region countries such as Greece, Portugal and Ireland is “not very good,” Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite said. “In the euro zone, there are a few countries, which are new members, less developed, who are now under pressure to extend the hand of help,” Grybauskaite said in an interview ahead of the European Union’s summit in Brussels on June 23. “This is not a very good situation.”

2011-06-27 Bloomberg: Lithuania to Fund Nuclear Plant via Budget, State Energy Company

Lithuania will finance the government’s share in a planned nuclear power plant through the budget and state energy company VAE, President Dalia Grybauskaite said. “It will be done not only by the state budget but by the state energy company,” Grybauskaite said in an interview in Brussels June 22 before the EU summit. “Latvian, Estonian and Polish companies are still pledging and would like to participate in the project.”

2011-03-16 AP interview: Lithuania's 'Steel Magnolia' defends maverick approach to foreign policy

Lithuania's president can number karate fans, European Union dignitaries and her countrymen among her admirers, but its her independent-mindedness which has raised eyebrows in Washington. President Dalia Grybauskaite has goaded the United States — unsuccessfully — to share information on two CIA prisons she says were set up in Lithuania, openly disagreed with the U.S. on missile defence and in perhaps the most shocking move, snubbed U.S. President Barack Obama at a dinner in Prague last year, even though nearly every other Eastern European president attended.

2010-11-17 Times on-line and AFP: NATO summit will boost Baltic defence: Lithuania

NATO's Baltic state minnows will have their defences boosted by a crucial summit of the 28-nation alliance this week, Lithuania said Wednesday. “Finally, six and a half years after we became a member of NATO, we'll have real, not just formal membership, with all the security guarantees,” a spokesman for Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite told AFP.

2010-08-25 "Time": Top 10 Female Leaders

Fourth place: Dalia Grybauskaite, President of Lithuania

After Grybauskaite came to power in 2009, European journalists quickly dubbed her Lithuania's Iron Lady, owing to her steely way with words and her black belt in karate.

2010-07-16 The Economist: State industries in Lithuania. Follow the money

State-owned enterprises in eastern Europe are often a mess. Lithuania is trying to reform them DIG into the political undergrowth anywhere between the Baltic and the Black Seas and you soon find curious connections between state-owned enterprises, officials and politicians. They mostly escape public scrutiny—not least because politicians of all stripes tend to benefit from the state firms’ largesse.

2010-05-25 EurActiv.com: Lithuanian President: Europe is an overgrown teenager

Europe has grown more quickly than the clothes it is wearing, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė told EurActiv in an interview, stressing the need to redesign common policies and aim for more monetary and fiscal coordination.

2010-05-11 The Irish Times: Lithuanian president says 'brain drain' through migration is huge concern

HE “BRAIN drain” suffered by Lithuania as a result of continuing migration to countries like Ireland is of huge concern, the Lithuanian president said during a visit to Dublin yesterday. “We are a small nation, and we are losing the most active people between 25 and 40 years old after we have trained them and invested in their education. It is a huge loss,” President Dalia Grybauskaite told The Irish Times.

2010-03-18 The Economist: Incompetent visionaries: Twenty years after declaring independence, Lithuania is discovering the value of pragmatism

Article by the Bristish weekly magazine The Economist: "Incompetent visionaries: Twenty years after declaring independence, Lithuania is discovering the value of pragmatism".