Syrian refugees in Turkey
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Lithuania to resettle 70 refugees from Turkey

Lithuania intends to resettle 70 persons from refugee camps in Turkey. “We have an embassy in Turkey, which will make it easier for us to handle the documents and communicate with the people, carry out selection and checks,” Interior Vice-Minister Elvinas Jankevičius told BNS in his explanation of the reasons behind the choice of the country. […]

Politics

Group to collect signatures on spelling of non-Lithuanian names

A group of citizens plan to propose to the country’s parliament to adopt legal amendments allowing to write non-Lithuanian names of Lithuanian nationals on an additional passport page. […]

Algirdas Butkevičius, Eligijus Masiulis
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PM criticises liberals over their stance on loan to Lithuanian Shipping Company

Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says Eligijus Masiulis, the leader of the Liberal Movement, made a populist decision to oppose efforts to salvage the Lithuanian Shipping Company‘s (LSC) and address prosecutors. […]

Saulius Skvernelis
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President slams interior minister’s ‘police state methods’

Lithuania President Dalia Grybauskaitė has criticised Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis‘ initiative under which heads of institutions subordinate to the ministry were banned from meeting politicians without informing the minister first. […]

Valentinas Mazuronis
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Lithuania’s Labour Party threatens to leave coalition over deputy minister row

Following a conversation of Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius and Culture Minister Šarūnas Birutis, who was instructed to sack his deputy minister Vytautas Vigelis within a week, the Labour Party‘s leader Valentinas Mazuronis rushed off to the Government’s Office. The politician is convinced that the deputy minister was appointed lawfully, although the PM insists that Vigelis should be fired. […]