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The organisation Brits Abroad has urged UK expats to vote to remain in the EU in the referendum planned for June 23, 2016.

Britain wants all the privileges of being in the EU and none of the obligations, says Lithuanian MEP Zigmantas Balčytis commenting on the deal recently reached between the United Kingdom and the EU that is meant to stave off the possibility of Brexit.

Lithuanian carriers are being hit by significant losses caused by migrants trying to get to the UK on trucks illegally, with Lithuanian drivers calling the situation in Calais a war zone, reports LRT.

The agreement secured by British Prime Minister David Cameron at the weekend on special conditions for Britain to stay in the European Union did not represent a victory for the UK or the EU, according to leading Lithuanian politicians.

Lithuanian migration to the United Kingdom will not be affected by benefit cuts recently agreed on by British and EU leaders, says social policy expert Romas Lazutka.

A plane owned by the Lithuanian charter carrier Small Planet Airlines skidded off the runway at Birmingham Airport, UK, on Sunday.

European Union leaders are running behind events on the ground in their attempts to find solutions to the ongoing refugee crisis, said Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė who is attending a European Council meeting in Brussels.

A new poll shows that 70% of Lithuanians were positive about the country's EU membership, the fifth highest rating in the European Union.

European Union and British negotiators have reached agreement on most of Britain's demand for reforms, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said, adding that agreement on London's proposal to cut benefits for EU migrants was also in sight.

European Union countries must look for compromise and help the British government convince the British people to stay in the Union, but not at the price of discrimination against EU citizens, says Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė ahead of important talks in Brussels.

Lithuania cannot imagine the European Union (EU) without the United Kingdom, says the country's Ambassador to the EU Jovita Neliupšienė.

Over the weekend, I visited a Sabonis Taurė basketball game being held at the Sydney Rusell sports centre in east London. The Kubus United and Baltic Staff Lithuanian basketball teams were fighting for the chance to move on to the next stage.

Britain is sending five warships to Lithuania and the Baltics as part of an increased NATO presence in the region to act as a deterrent against Russia.

A major British army exercise to practice an Iraq invasion-scale operation with US forces in Jordan is in preparation for a possible confrontation with Russia in Eastern Europe.

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė cancelled a planned trip to London where she was to attend an international high-level conference on humanitarian aid to Syria. Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius will take part in the event instead.

Draft proposals by European Council president Donald Tusk to keep Britain in the European Union include proposals for an ‘emergency brake’ that would allow countries to curb in-work benefits to migrants for up to four years that could affect the many Lithuanian emigrants living and working in the UK...

Lithuania's ethics watchdog has decided not to investigate Education Minister Audronė Pitrėnienė who caused controversy by taking her husband on an official trip to London.

Many in Lithuania have been criticizing Poland's new government, but former Lithuanian ambassador to the US Žygimantas Pavilionis believes that the return of a strategic partnership between Poland and Lithuania should be our greatest foreign policy priority. According to Pavilionis, those now critic...

After Lithuania legalized bankruptcy procedures for individuals three years ago, only 17 people have made use of the relief from their debts by declaring bankruptcy. Another 900 have started bankruptcy procedures which take three years. Lithuanians who want to go bankrupt faster and easier still pre...

London is not seeking to restrict the free movement of persons or workers in the European Union, but finds it unfair that incoming immigrants can use the UK's benefit system without having contributed to it, said UK's Minister of State for Europe David Lidington in Vilnius.