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Gabrielius Landsbergis

Gabrielius Landsbergis served as Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2020 to 2024. Currently Bernard and Susan Liautaud Visiting Fellow at Stanford University (2025-2026).

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a rally in support of Ukraine at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, on Feb. 24, 2024.

Gabrielius Landsbergis: Ukraine is Europe. Now Europe must be defiant like Ukraine

by Gabrielius Landsbergis
After years of bravery and sacrifice for freedom, democracy, and the European way of life, there can be no question that Ukraine is European. Raising this question is no longer a valid contribution to any debate on Ukraine's future, it is merely deliberate and hypocritical sabotage of millions of people's struggle to achieve what we in the rest of Europe take for granted. By any measure, Ukraine is the world's leading advocate for justice and lasting peace based on the European values that we,