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Lithuania ‘cannot imagine’ EU without Britain
Lithuania cannot imagine the European Union (EU) without the United Kingdom, says the country’s Ambassador to the EU Jovita Neliupšienė. […]
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Draft proposals to keep Britain in EU to hit Lithuanian migrants in UK
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, or planning to move to the UK. […]
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Brexit is bigger challenge for EU than refugees, Lithuanian MP says
Britain’s planned referendum on quitting the European Union is a bigger challenge to the EU than the migration crisis, says Gediminas Kirkilas, the chairman of the Lithuanian parliament’s European Affairs Committee, after meeting with his Baltic and Polish counterparts. […]
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Denying benefits to EU migrants in Britain is ‘discrimination’, President Grybauskaitė says
The European Union‘s talks with the United Kingdom in the run-up to its membership referendum will be complicated, says Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė. While she supports London’s drive to make the EU more efficient and less bureaucratic, she has said that proposals to deny benefits to EU nationals residing in Britain are “discriminatory”. […]
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UK’s proposal on benefits to EU citizens is discriminatory, Lithuanian president says
On Thursday in Brussels, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with British Prime Minister David Cameron ahead of the European Council. The meeting was held on the initiative of the British PM. […]
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UK’s Cameron to start talks on EU treaty change in Riga
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. […]