Lithuania could take in 250 refugees as a voluntary contribution to the European Union‘s efforts to alleviate the Mediterranean migrant crisis, Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says. According to him, the number of 250 refugees, which the Lithuanian president recently mentioned, matches the country’s capabilities. […]
Recently, I was asked by radio journalist Aurimas Perednis what I thought about the issue of illegal migrants flooding the EU’s southern states. No one in Europe disputes one thing: the current state of affairs is dangerous and cannot be left to run its own course. […]
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 Lithuanian Seimas Committee on Foreign Affairs has stated that solidarity to distribute refugees among European Union (EU) member states should be understood as a voluntary contribution based on a country’s capabilities. […]
Lithuania’s foreign policy is not without some ambivalence. Vilnius aspires to be a regional leader and set an example to other small countries, Lithuania demands to be treated as a respected full-fledged member of the European Union, NATO and the international community. Its own actions, however, do not always live up to the standard. […]
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 ranks 34th out of 38 countries in terms of conditions for migrants, according to the annual Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX 2015). […]
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. […]
Accepting refugees is not the only way to contribute to the resolution of the existing refugee crisis, and the allocated quotas are still an issue “on paper”, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius says. […]
Kalle Laanet, the chairman of the Estonian parliament’s Constitutional Committee, says the question for Estonia must not be whether the country should receive refugees, but how it should be done, The Baltic Times reports. […]
Lithuania will Monday preside over the meeting of the United Nations (UN) Security Council on the crisis in the Mediterranean Sea, where thousands of migrants have perished while trying to cross from North Africa to Europe. […]
Amidst the European Union‘s (EU) efforts to solve the immigration crisis, the Lithuanian government is considering the possibility to assign a helicopter and a crew of the State Border Guard Service for rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea, the prime minister’s spokeswoman said on Wednesday. […]
Lithuania is ready to step up its involvement in migrant rescue missions and provide humanitarian aid as the European Unions mulls ways to deal with the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean Sea, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says. […]
Lithuania will look for ways to contribute to the EU and the international community’s efforts to resolve the refugee problem, the country’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius said on Monday in Luxembourg during a Foreign Affairs Council meeting. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė has proposed changes that would ban issuing residency permits to foreigners who are suspected of or charged with crimes, as well as put the Police Department, the State Border Guard Service and the State Security Department under the obligation of submitting conclusions about applicants to the Migration Department within 14 days. […]
Russian citizens Akhmed Yevloyev and Oleg Shamanin have not been granted residence permits in Lithuania, the criminals are not on the Interpol’s wanted list either, says Minister of the Interior Saulius Skvernelis. […]
The population of Lithuania shrank 0.7 percent over 2014, according to Statistics Lithuania, yet the figure represents an improvement since 2005. […]
The United Kingdom aims to curb “destabilizing” migration flows within the European Union (EU) and does not rule out it may demand amendments to the EU treaty, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said in Lithuania on Thursday. […]
A Migration Information Centre will be established in Lithuania next year and it will provide information to repatriates, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said on Tuesday morning. […]
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