Emigration

A national agreement on emigration, initiated by Lithuania's ruling Order and Justice party, has failed to secure the support of the country's key political parties. Major opposition parties have no plans of signing it, the Lietuvos Žinios daily reports.

Emigration from Lithuania has been on a decline, while more illegal immigrants have been crossing into Lithuania on their way to more prosperous destinations in Western Europe.

The European Commission's forecast of a dramatic decline in Lithuania's population is based on wrong and too short historical data, Swedbank Lithuania's chief economist said on Wednesday.

A few months ago, the Lithuanian Parliament (Seimas) began a debate on forming a new permanent committee on emigration.

The population of Lithuania shrank 0.7 percent over 2014, according to Statistics Lithuania, yet the figure represents an improvement since 2005.

More than 619,000 Lithuanians live abroad, show statistical data published by the Lithuanian Statistics Department on Friday. One in five of the expatriates live in the United Kingdom.

A Migration Information Centre will be established in Lithuania next year and it will provide information to repatriates, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said on Tuesday morning.

Thoughts about emigrating from the country have crossed the minds of 28.9 percent of Lithuanians, according to a DELFI-commissioned poll by Spinter Tyrimai. As many as 3.9 percent are actually preparing to leave.

Iceland's Lithuanian community has joined efforts to bring Christmas joy to children with cancer.

The capital city is not the only place where you can live well and emigration is not a salvation. These thoughts were expressed in the World Economic Forum's Youth Network Global SHAPE discussion "What can we do in the regions of Lithuania?"

Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius says he has been assured by London that the immigration restrictions proposed by the British government will not undermine the EU principle of free movement of persons.

The decrease in Lithuania's population in 2000-2013 was the most pronounced across the European Union (EU), says director of the Institute of Human Geography and Demography Vlada Stankūnienė.

Lithuanians who live outside the country will have transferred a record sum of money to their relatives back home this year, shows preliminary data obtained by DELFI.

In 2013, international net migration remained negative in Lithuania as the number of emigrants exceeded that of immigrants by 16,800.

The Lithuanian media has lately caused some stir with stories about Lithuanian expatriates in Norway who have had their children "taken away" by childcare services. Norway's Ambassador to Lithuania Leif Arne Ulland says that his country takes children's welfare very seriously and makes no distinctio...

17,600 young people emigrated from Lithuania last year, and 8,800 returned, according to figures from Statistics Lithuania.

Statistics Lithuania informs that, at the beginning of 2014, the estimated population of Lithuania stood at 2943.5 thousand, i.e., 28.4 thousand (1 percent) below what it was at the beginning of 2013. In 2005-2013, the population declined by 411.7 thousand, or 12.3 percent.

There are some 50,000 Lithuanians living in Norway. While the media is quick to cover crimes and criminal gang activity, giving Lithuanian expatriates a bad name in both their adopted and home countries, Ambassador of Norway Leif Arne Ulland says most of them have managed to integrate quite well and...

Parliament plans to introduce a commission dedicated to emigration issues this fall, according to Order and Justice Party leader MEP Rolandas Paksas.