From December 9, two Lithuanian border guards will help patrol the border between Bulgaria and Turkey, two more will patrol with a service SUV along the Hungary–Serbia border.
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The list of potential asylum seekers to be resettled in Lithuania was longer, but after security tests officials decided to relocate only one family. At the moment, there is no new information about other refugees who could soon arrive in Lithuania, Deputy Interior Elvinas Jankevičius told reporters...
A meeting between President Dalia Grybauskaitė and the Parliamentary Committees on Foreign and European Affairs discussed the EU's refugee relocation scheme. According to the European Affairs Committee chair Gediminas Kirkilas, Lithuania's position is to oppose proposals of introducing a permanent m...
During its sitting on Monday, the Political Council of the ruling majority has agreed that Lithuania cannot take in more refugees than it has been obligated so far.
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė attended the EU-Turkey summit in Brussels where Turkey was represented by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. The summit was held to discuss the flow of Syrian refugees crossing Turkey, the press service of the president said.
The Lithuanian parliament passed legislation on Thursday that clears up regulations of refugee resettlement in the country.
Even as this piece is being written, it is possible that a Europolitician in Brussels would turn up his salary-soaked nose at the headline. However, it is now time to face the stark truth. The refugee crisis has confirmed again that the European Union is so weak that it can be terrorised and blackma...
Labour Party's Chairman Valentinas Mazuronis has asked the parties in Lithuania's governing coalition to revise the country's refugee quota.
The presidents of Lithuania and Latvia say the two countries will not agree to accepting more refugee quotas unless the European Union takes simultaneous measures to secure the EU's external borders.
A new poll suggests that most Lithuanians are not very welcoming of refugees and do not agree with the government's policies of offering asylum to people fleeing wars in the Middle East.
Chief advisor to the Lithuanian president on national security Valdemaras Sarapinas says that people running from war should not be called terrorists and Lithuania will stay committed to the European Union's (EU) refugee relocation plan.
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that the recent introduction of temporary border checks in Sweden is the outcome of failing to control the European Union's external borders.
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that, despite all measures taken by the European Union (EU) and its member-states to manage the migrant and refugee flows, the migration crisis in Europe is only worsening.
EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis has slammed discussions in Lithuania about selection criteria for refugee resettlement. According to Andriukaitis, who was Lithuania's healthcare minister before taking the job with the EU Commission, said that selections among ...
The congress of the European People‘s Party in Madrid has turned into a meeting of conservative leaders to discuss the refugee crisis, a divisive issue for European conservatives. Gabrielius Landsbergis, the leader of the Lithuanian Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, says that his part...
As Lithuania fails to find refugees wishing to move here from Italy and Greece, 70 Iraqi refugees could be resettled to Lithuania from Turkey.
Lithuanian officials in charge of resettling refugees from Syria in Lithuania and putting together plans for their integration have said they will use selection criteria like family status and religion to ensure smoother integration. That would be a mistake, experts say.
It is too early to tell how much money will be allocated per refugee for their care, says Lithuania's Deputy Social Security and Labour Minister Algirdas Šešelgis.
Lithuanian Deputy Minister of the Interior Elvinas Jankevičius says Italy and Greece must compile lists of refugees eligible for resettlement in Lithuania. After that, they can start arriving as soon as possible, he has said on Monday.
As Lithuania is drafting plans how to integrate refugees from the Middle East that the country has agreed to accept, with some expressing doubts about opportunities for them to find jobs in the relatively closed and ethnically homogeneous country, there is one business in Vilnius that exclusively em...
