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The Management Board of the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) has elected its Lithuanian member, Ms Evelina Gudzinskaitė, as its new chair. A graduate of Vilnius University, she has served as director of the Migration Department under the Ministry of Interior in Lithuania since 2015, the EUAA ...

Can we say that the borders of the European Union (EU) are safe from abuse by the agents of the Kremlin? No, we cannot. And this is not just a small vulnerability. It is a massive, but hopefully not a deliberate access route into the EU, which is used by those, whom we most need to keep out: Kremlin...

President Gitanas Nausėda on Monday participated in an informal discussion on the EU’s strategic agenda at the invitation of the Chancellor of Germany, Olaf Scholz, and the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, his office said in a press release.

Euro area annual inflation is expected to be 2.9% in October 2023, down from 4.3% in September according to a flash estimate from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.

Latvia’s new Foreign Minister Krišjānis Kariņš says Russians who are not Latvian citizens could still live in the country if they learn basic Latvian.

President Gitanas Nausėda and leaders of other 26 member states of the European Union (EU) on Sunday issued a joint statement which strongly condemns Hamas and its brutal and indiscriminate terrorist attacks across Israel, the presidency said.

In August 2023, the seasonally adjusted industrial production increased by 0.6% in both the euro area and the European Union (EU), compared with July 2023, reports Eurostat, the EU's statistical office.

Minister of the Economy and Innovation Aušrinė Armonaitė says Lithuania recycles around 4% of its waste into new products and is lagging far behind the European Union (EU) average of 12%. The ministry is thus encouraging smaller industries to engage in recycling and developing new products and to ap...

President Gitanas Nausėda participates in a meeting of the European Political Community in Granada, Spain. On Thursday, the leaders of the European Union and partner countries discussed issues of security, strengthening resilience to global threats, and effective multilateralism, said the president’...

Minister of the Economy and Innovation Aušrinė Armonaitė has invited Japan’s innovative businesses to cooperate with Lithuanian companies in engineering and information technologies, the ministry reports.

Authoritarian regimes are observing the war in Ukraine and designing their foreign policy accordingly, says Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis. It means that the security of the rest of the world will depend only on the Western stance and response to Russian aggression, he said.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis on Monday is participating in an informal meeting of the European Union’s foreign ministers in Ukraine.

On 4 and 5 October, Latvia will host the 14th Annual Forum of the European Union Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR), “Safe and Sustainable Baltic Sea Region for Future Generations”. Its thematic focus will be placed on green energy, climate issues, and youth engagement, the Ministry of Fore...

Small salaries, nepotism, different pay for men and women for the same job – when talking about Lithuania’s labour market, such comments are common. Employee selection experts have noticed that Lithuania as an employer definitely has room for improvement, and that it is especially difficult to catch...

If a young adult decides to start living independently, one of the major challenges is accommodation, especially if they choose to move into a big city. Record-high rent prices are common in almost the entire European Union, and Lithuania’s capital Vilnius is no exception. Students, even those who h...

As the European Union is considering a new migration and asylum policy, including a solidarity mechanism to relocate migrants, Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė thinks Lithuania may agree with a migrant quota instead of paying EUR 3 million annually.

President Gitanas Nausėda argues that the European Union’s solidarity mechanism on migrant quotas does not take into account that thousands of refugees from Ukraine and Belarus already live in Lithuania.

Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis met on Wednesday with the under-secretary-general for political affairs of the United Nations, Rosemary A. DiCarlo, to discuss the role of the UN in pursuing Russia’s accountability for aggression against Ukraine, the ministry said in a press release.

A UN Refugee Agency’s representative has stated that Lithuania should allow irregular migrants enter the country before determining their status, a position highly disputed by Lithuanian politicians. Minister of the Interior Agnė Bilotaitė suggests that the situation of migrants in Belarus should be...