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Lithuania will not support radical proposals for the overhaul of the refugee system as long as the European Union's borders aren't completely secured, said president Dalia Grybauskaitė.

Basir Yousof, the Afghani refugee in Greece who made waves in Lithuania after appearing in a video asking for asylum in Lithuania and revealing himself to have worked with Lithuanian forces as an interpreter in Afghanistan's Ghor province, may have his request granted after a positive reception from...

"Laba diena visiems iš Lietuvos," Basir, a refugee from Afghanistan's Ghor Province, addresses people of Lithuania and the country's president in a youtube video posted by an American journalist from a refugee camp in Greece.

Lithuania's Social Democrat Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius has criticised coalition partner, the Labour Party's proposal to stop more refugees coming to Lithuania, saying such an initiative is excessive and would do more damage than good to Lithuania.

The Labour Party suggested this week that Lithuania should refuse to accept any more refugees than it has already committed, that is 1,105 over the course of two years. What do you think?

Lithuania's Labour Party has issued a statement, saying that the country should not to accept any more refugees than it has already committed to.

After two days of negotiations, Turkey and the European Union reached a compromise agreement on a plan to reduce the flow of migrants from the Middle East to Europe. At a summit concluding March 18, the heads of government of the 28 EU members and their Turkish counterparts approved the plan, which ...

Last week the first refugees from Syria settled in the Rukla refugee reception camp – 29-year-old painter and graphic designer Majd Kara and 27-year-old English teacher Mohammed Farah told of how they came to end up in Lithuania - a story about the refugee smuggling business.

The European Union and Turkey agreed on a deal on Friday which will mean that migrants arriving in Greece from Sunday will be sent back across the Aegean Sea.

The European Union's (EU) agreement with Turkey on returning migrants may open new migration routes to Europe, Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė said after arriving at the European Summit on Thursday.

Imagine for a moment that almost half of the population of Vilnius was Ukrainian refugees fleeing the civil war that rages on with the help of Putin's Russian army. That is the present situation in Lebanon, which is hosting several million Syrian refugees.

Europe must, at least temporarily, close its doors to economic migrants according to Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė, because it is clear to her that the European Union's states cannot “absorb” and integrate such a large number of arrivals.

On Wednesday, the Vilnius Country Administrative Court heard a case brought before it by the first family of Iraqi refugees to arrive in Lithuania. After the court hearing, Yasser Al-Any spoke to journalists about trouble finding work and procuring food.

As part of the European Union's attempt to help solve the migrant and refugee crisis, Lithuania plans to provide Turkey, which has pledged to accept illegal immigrants traveling to Greece, with €5.2 million.

After the European Union cut off migrant routes via Libya to Italy and agreed with Turkey to stem migrant flows across the Aegean to Greece, the Baltic States fear that migrants from the Middle East might discover new routes via Russia, making them their gateway to the European Union.

With Slovenia, Macedonia and Croatia all banning migrants from transiting through their territory, refugees and immigrants may try to come through the eastern border of Lithuania as they seek other routes into the European Union, according to the Lithuanian Interior Minister.

European Council President Donald Tusk's statements that the days of illegal immigration to Europe were over was a very bold claim according to political scientist Vytis Jurkonis.

Failure to protect the EU's external borders poses an existential threat to its Schengen free travel area, according to Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė.

Another refugee family maybe relocated to Lithuania shortly under the European Union's (EU) agreement, says Lithuania's Interior Vice-Minister Elvinas Jankevičius.

European Council President Donald Tusk has said economic migrants will not be welcome in Europe, making an appeal not to come and warning they will they will be turned away.