"The project has to be a regional one. It is too big for one state. Our previous nuclear power plant was built for the region. This is how the would-be investor and technology supplier, Japan's Hitachi, sees it," she told Lithuanian Television on Wednesday evening.
This is a chance for the Baltic countries to remain a nuclear energy region, Grybauskaitė said.
"The nuclear power plant project is important, necessary and beneficial. The more so because we have received the European Commission's opinion on the project as being beneficial to the whole Baltic region and increasing our competitiveness and the security of energy supply in the region," she said.
