Judo-practicing ‘Iron Lady’ Takes over EU, boosts U.S. trade

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Get ready to hear more about the Judo-loving president of Lithuania dubbed the “Iron Lady” for her harsh austerity measures used to yank the Baltic state out of economic disaster without any outside help.

That’s because not only does Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite’s country take over as the president of the European Union, but she just helped launched the new American-Lithuanian Business Council in Washington to boost trade between the two.

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