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Former Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaitė has been honoured with the Point Alpha Award for her dedication to preserving peace in Europe. The 68-year-old received the €25,000 prize on Sunday at a ceremony at the Point Alpha memorial site on the border between the states of Hesse and Thuringia. The German award honours extraordinary contributions to European peace and freedom as well as commemorating the peaceful reunification of Germany. “You were popular in your country, but less so in many European countries: you were regarded as the ‘Iron Lady of Lithuania’,” said Michael Roth, a lawmak…

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