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Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Friday came to Poland's defense in the neighboring country's row with the European Union, saying that decisions in the bloc cannot be forced upon member states.
Dalia Grybauskaitė
Dalia Grybauskaitė
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"No matter how difficult the situation is, we cannot blame and shame each other. We need to find together consensual solutions, because Europe is about understanding and agreement, not about enforcing, beating and using the instruments, which had never been used before," Grybauskaitė said during

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