Vytautas Landsbergis's visions for the year 2020

In a guest commentary for the Lithuanian magazine Naujasis zidinys-Aidai published by the newspaper, Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithania's first president following independence from the Soviet Union, presents two opposing "visions for Europe 2020". "Unfortunately, there are two scenarios: a positive and a negative. The positive one can be described as 'Europe plus'. This would be a genuine Europe constructed in the 21st century and united under a federalist structure based on a stable solidarity between the continent's nation states. It has no problems in its relations with the US." Landsbergis' pessimistic scenario: "Europe's unity has still not been achieved and continues to be the subject of heated discussion... There is racist and religious conflict, and each day we fear a clash of pan-European proportions."

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