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...many, the behind-the-scenes negotiations run counter to the Lisbon Treaty, which is meant to make the E.U. a more efficient, transparent and democratic system. Former Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga, one of the few declared candidates for the presidency, said last week that the machinations over the top jobs could ultimately damage the new leaders' authority. "The E.U. should stop working like the former Soviet Union ... in darkness and behind closed doors," she said...
...worked damn hard!” Vike-Freiberga said with a laugh...
...greatest accomplishments, Vike-Freiberga noted that Latvia entered the EU and NATO under her leadership. Contrary to what she thinks historians will say, she said that these were very difficult tasks...
...Anna Shabalov ’10, a native of Latvia who is ethnically Russian, said it was “very interesting how [Vike-Freiberga] lived in Canada her whole life and then became the president of Latvia...
...Vike-Freiberga was born in Latvia but escaped with her family following the Soviet occupation in 1944, fleeing to Germany, Morocco, and eventually Canada...