” Whoever receives the Charlemagne Honor is actually important for the European countries and you will beyond – like this year’s laureate: Lithuania’s Chairman Dalia Grybauskaite. But this lady style is debatable.

Arms upright. Sight straight in the future. Quantity. That is the character Dalia Grybauskaite is best known for: the latest resolute leader responsible for Lithuanian government.

“My profile is made on competition to own success,” brand new 57 year-old told DW, regarding her interlocutor attentively instead betraying one emotion. “I found myself not away from a highly steeped friends. Therefore i didn’t come with one getting help. That’s why, maybe, there’s so it feeling of strictness.”

As 2009, Grybauskaite might have been the brand new president out-of Lithuania. The newest media frequently describes her once the “Iron Ladies,” a mention of former British Perfect Minister Margaret Thatcher.

And it’s really which have an iron grip on it, it appears, one to Grybauskaite features pursued their profession. Shortly after Lithuania’s freedom during the 1990, she was designated towards ministry having global trade since the a part lead and later, when you look at the international work environment. Leia mais