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EU commission takes Lithuania to court rail safety rules
The European Commission has taken Lithuania to the EU Court of Justice for its failure to establish an independent rail accident and incident investigation body. […]
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EC decisions will help to manage migration crisis, Lithuanian president says
The strategic decisions made by the European Council on Wednesday will help to manage the migration crisis, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says. […]
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Lithuanian president goes to EU Council meeting on refugee crisis
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė will on Wednesday travel to Brussels for an extraordinary meeting of the European Council, which has been convened as a matter of urgency to find a unified and effective response to the deepening refugee crisis. […]
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Lithuania backs EU refugee sharing plan
Despite objections from some Central and Eastern European countries, the European Union‘s interior ministers on Tuesday voted in support of the plan to share 120,000 refugees. […]
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EU ministers gather for meeting on refugees
Lithuanian Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis is on Tuesday going to Brussels to attend a meeting of EU ministers where they will try to reach an agreement on the relocation of 160,000 refugees who have come to Europe. […]
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Mogherini hopes EU interior ministers to reach refugee deal
High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini hopes EU interior ministers will reach an agreement on sharing the burden of refugees and this way the EU will strengthen its position for negotiations with third countries. […]
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Lithuanian PM and EU’s Mogherini discuss refugee crisis
On Monday, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius met with Federica Mogherini, European Commission Vice-President, European Union‘s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, to discuss the refugee crisis and ways to strengthen strategic communications, as well as other matters of international importance, the press service of the Government said. […]
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EU’s Mogherini paying first visit to Vilnius
High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini will pay her first official visit to Lithuania on Monday. […]
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Lithuanian MEPs have split opinion over EU refugee plan
At the European Parliament (EP) vote in Brussels on Thursday on distribution of 120,000 refugees among European Union (EU) member-states, the opinions of Lithuanian MEPs split. […]
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EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini to come to Vilnius
High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini will pay her first official visit to Lithuania on Monday. […]
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Lithuanian PM calls German minister’s statements about cutting EU aid ‘unacceptable blackmail’
Lithuania’s top officials have different opinions on Germany’s recent warnings about possible cuts in EU aid for member states that disagree with mandatory refugee quotas. […]
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EC will not cut support to EU nations refusing refugee quotas
The European Commission (EC) stated on Tuesday it was not considering to cut European Union (EU) structural assistance to countries that disagree with the mandatory migrant quotas. […]
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Interior minister: Lithuania ‘sceptical’ about EU migrant quotas
Lithuania is of a “sceptical opinion” about a Brussels-proposed mandatory migrant quota system, the country’s Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Monday, calling for focusing on border control and sending back migrants without the right to asylum. […]
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Lithuania’s Linkevičius hopes German border controls won’t trigger Schengen collapse
Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius expressed hope that the border control introduced by Germany would not trigger “chain reactions” that would destroy the Schengen zone. […]
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Lithuania to join opposition to mandatory migrant quotas at EU talks
Lithuania and other Central and Eastern European countries plan to resist the introduction of a permanent mandatory migrant quota system as EU interior ministers are meeting in Brussels on Monday. […]
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Lithuania won’t support permanent crisis resettlement scheme, interior minister says
Lithuania intends to speak against the permanent mechanism that would empower the European Commission to decide on refugee resettlement in case of future crises, says the country’s Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis. […]
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Juncker warns Moscow that EU borders are ‘untouchable’
European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker warned Moscow Wednesday the security of European Union member nations was sacrosanct, amid growing alarm in eastern states over the crisis in Ukraine. […]
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Dutch media: Baltic states will be asked to accept fewer refugees
The European Commission (EC) most probably will ask the Baltic states to take in twice fewer refugees than unofficial sources have been reporting so far: Lithuania’s share would be around 780 people, the Dutch daily De Volkskrant reports. […]