The European Parliament opened discussions about a report on EU-Russia relations, drafted by Lithuanian MEP Gabrielius Landsbergis, on Tuesday. Some MEPs called for separating the Russian society and the country’s government while others accused Europe of expansionism. […]
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. […]
Lithuania’s unwillingness to accept refugees that are flooding Southern European countries shows a lack of solidarity with other EU member states, Lithuanian EU Commissioner Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis says. […]
The EU’s Vice President in charge of the Digital Single Market, Andrus Ansip presented on Thursday his proposals to Washington’s influential Brookings Institute. During a press conference on Friday the pragmatic Mr. Ansip provided some more insights as to how the EU and its 28 membership states faces the complexities of a fast changing internet and how they plan reducing existing regulations and harmonize the EU into one single, large economic block. […]
Despite the frantic attempts by some of the EU leaders to give a rosy tint to the otherwise murky picture of the EU Eastern Partnership summit in Riga, political analysts from Lithuania, Estonia and Ukraine, approached by the Lithuania Tribune, unanimously agree the EU partners with membership aspirations have ended up in a limbo after the high-profile meeting. The uncertainty cannot last forever, the analysts agree, but their predictions for how it may unfold differ. […]
EU member states should be given the right to decide themselves whether to accept refugees from Greece and Italy and how may of them to accept, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says. […]
The European Commission on Wednesday suggested relocating up to 710 refugees to Lithuania in a move aimed at resolving the Mediterranean migrant crisis. […]
Lithuania had expected more from last week’s EU Eastern Partnership summit, says Benediktas Juodka, chairman of the Lithuanian Seimas Committee on Foreign Affairs. […]
Some countries would like to see the European Union as “a tea club” that does not make any decisions, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Friday. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who is attending the European Union‘s (EU) Eastern Partnership summit in Riga, says that the promises made to Eastern partners are sufficient, although the West has not committed itself to accepting them into the EU in the future. […]
Free movement of persons is a fundamental value, Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė stated in Riga on Friday, commenting on the United Kingdom‘s efforts to renegotiate the immigration rules with the European Union (EU). […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that a lot has been achieved since the last summit of the European Union‘s (EU) Eastern Partnership that took place in Vilnius 18 months ago, stressing that the Eastern Partnership programme is a contribution to European security. […]
British Prime Minister David Cameron will start face-to-face discussions at the Eastern Partnership summit in Riga on Friday with European partners on renegotiating Britain’s position in the European Union (EU) ahead of an in-out referendum by 2017. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that at the European Union‘s (EU) Eastern Partnership Summit the EU will once again assure its commitment to cooperate with countries of Eastern Europe. However, the extent of cooperation will depend on the resolve of each country. […]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has indicated that former Soviet states that are part of the European Union‘s Eastern Partnership programme should not expect any promises of full membership. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Thursday and Friday is attending the EU Eastern Partnership summit in Riga. The summit will review the results of the Eastern Partnership programme achieved after the Vilnius summit held at the end of 2013 and will outline guidelines for further cooperation and development of the programme, said the presidential press service. […]
Mandatory refugee quotas for EU member states would run counter to legal practice, therefore, such decisions should be made on a voluntary basis, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius says. […]
At the EU General Affairs Council meeting on 19 May in Brussels, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius discussed progress in implementing measures to tackle migratory flows in the Mediterranean Sea region adopted at a special meeting of the European Council on 23 April 2015. […]
In the run-up to the European Union’s (EU) Eastern Partnership summit in Riga, Lithuanian MEPs are sceptical about its results, saying that the decisions made in Latvia may be “politically empty”. […]
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