Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says the number of refugees that could be relocated to Lithuania will become clear after the meeting of the Council of the Interior Ministers next week. The prime minister added that the number could be up to 40.
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The meeting of the European Union's (EU) Justice and Home Affairs Council next week should establish the number of refugees Lithuania will have to accept, Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis says.
Recently, I was asked by radio journalist Aurimas Perednis what I thought about the issue of illegal migrants flooding the EU's southern states. No one in Europe disputes one thing: the current state of affairs is dangerous and cannot be left to run its own course.
A sharp increase in the number of detained border violators from Vietnam has been observed in Lithuania, the State Border Guard Service says.
An Estonian suspected of unlawfully transporting people across state borders was detained in northern Lithuania on Thursday, local authorities said.
