President in the Media

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".

2010-03-11 EUobserver: Lithuania celebrates EU status 20 years after independence

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The President of Lithuania has underlined the country's EU status as a marker of development on the 20th anniversary of its split from the Soviet Union. "Breaking away from the USSR and the Soviet repressive system was the foundation stone of the achievements we have today. Lithuania is a free and democratic state, a fully fledged member of the EU and Nato," Ms Dalia Grybauskaite, who came to power on the back of her reputation as EU budgets commissioner, said in a statement on Wednesday (11 March).

2010-03-11 Agence France-Presse: Lithuanian leaders reflect on 20 years of independence

The Baltic state of Lithuania Thursday marked the 20th anniversary of its secession from Moscow's rule, a move that launched a wave of breakaways that doomed the Soviet Union a year later. "Independence was the ultimate goal that united the people," President Dalia Grybauskaite told a session of parliament called to commemorate the 1990 split by her nation of 3.3 million people.

2010-03-11 Deutsche Presse-Agentur: Lithuanian leaders reflect on 20 years of independence

Vilnius - Twenty years since Lithuania became the first Soviet republic to break free from the Soviet Union, its present-day leaders have been remembering March 11, 1990, and how it changed the course of history. The current president and prime minister were amazed at the speed and scope of the changes. President Dalia Grybauskaite became the first ever female leader of Lithuania in 2009. Like many of her fellow Lithuanians 20 years ago, she spent hours watching the television for the latest developments, she said.

2010-03-11 The Baltic Course: Lithuania and Slovenia united by shared history, similar aspirations and common interests

President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaite has received the President of Slovenia, Danilo Tuerk, who came to Vilnius on an official visit. This is the first official visit by President Danilo Tuerk to Lithuania, the reported BC presidential press service.

2010-03-11 The Irish Times: Independence no panacea but end of Soviet rule still celebrated in Lithuania

When Algirdas Endriukaitis voted for Lithuania’s independence on March 11th, 1990, he and his fellow parliamentarians started a process that would ultimately unravel the Kremlin’s empire, create 15 new countries and end the Cold War. Today, Endriukaitis and his compatriots mark 20 years since Lithuania regained the sovereignty that Soviet occupation had abolished 50 years earlier, when Moscow’s secret pact with Nazi Germany carved up eastern Europe between Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler.

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Engagements

14:00 President greets German Chancellor Angela Merkel on arrival (Presidential Palace, S. Daukanto a.3)

14:05 Official photo of the President and the Chancellor (Presidential Palace, S. Daukanto a.3)

14:10 Meeting of the President and the Chancellor (Presidential Palace, S. Daukanto a.3)

15:20 Joint press conference of the President and the Chancellor (Presidential Palace, S. Daukanto a.3)

19:30 Official dinner hosted by the President in the honor of the Chancellor. Attended also by Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius and Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis (Presidential Palace, S. Daukanto a.3)