Rimantas Vaitkus
CORPORATE

Lithuania blames slow refugee resettlement on Greece, Italy

Refugee resettlement to Lithuania is taking more time than anticipated because Greece and Italy are too slow in processing refugees, Vice-Chancellor of the government Rimantas Vaitkus told Žinių radijas. […]

Zigmas Vaišvila
Politics

Group to collect signatures against refugee resettlement in Lithuania

A group wants to collect 50,000 signatures under a petition which would force parliament to reconsider refugee resettlement in Lithuania. […]

Gazprom
CORPORATE

EU wants to examine Gazprom contracts including Nord Stream 2

The EU wants to examine the contracts which Gazprom has signed with European companies including in Lithuania, amid suspicions that the Russian state energy company has imposed unfair prices which breach EU rules, a German newspaper has reported. […]

David Cameron, Donald Tusk
European Union

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. […]