The State Security Department will scrutinize every refugee to be resettled in Lithuania to make sure that persons linked with terrorism do not enter the country, says the department’s director Darius Jauniškis. […]
Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužinienė says that the government is not moving fast enough in its preparations to receive refugees. […]
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius is unsure how many refugees Lithuania will have to accept because the number will vary depending on how many people the European Union (EU) decides to relocate. […]
A group has asked Vilnius Municipality for permission to stage a rally outside the Representation of the European Commission on 20 September to protest refugee relocation to Lithuania. If authorised, the rally would be attended by up to 100 people. The organisers claim that people are not given enough information about the countries in conflict, that the terms “refugee” and “economic migrant” must be explained in order to reassure people. […]
The European Commission (EC) has earmarked 12.63 million euros in support to Lithuania’s dairy farmers, who sought a much larger amount of 32 million euros. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
As the Seimas Committee on European Affairs convened to consider how many refugees Lithuania is capable to receive, the Labour Party political group said it will vote against the current proposal of resettlement of refugees. […]
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. […]
As thousands of refugees fleeing wars in the Middle East and Africa arrive in Europe, Lithuania, too, is going to accept more asylum seekers than previously planned. Some employers in the country say they will welcome new potential employees. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that the country agrees with Brussels’ recommendation on distribution of refugees, saying that future solidarity in sharing burdens should not be based on “coercive mechanisms”. […]
Lithuania-delegated EU Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis says, in comment on Brussels’ proposal for European countries to share the refugee burden, that Lithuanians should remember their own emigrants who left for the West at the end of World War Two. […]
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. […]
The issue of refugees to be received by Lithuania should be discussed by the Political Council of the ruling coalition and presented at the parliament, says Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius. […]
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. […]
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