For almost a month now, the Ukrainian people have fought the Russian occupiers heroically. While fierce fighting continues across much of Ukraine, the western part of Ukraine has become a kind of protective fortress, hiding […]
Since the end of February, more than 10,800 children have arrived in Lithuania from war-torn Ukraine. 1.5 thousand of them have already registered in the country’s schools, according to the Minister of Education, Science and […]
As Lithuania prepares to take in refugees from Ukraine, 11,000 accommodation places have already been secured in municipalities, and they would be allowed to work immediately, representatives of ministries told a meeting of the Seimas […]
Minister of the Interior Agnė Bilotaitė has signed an order to reinstate a one-off payment of €1,000 for migrants who have not been granted asylum in Lithuania and who voluntarily agree to return to their […]
Over the last several years, more and more Belarusian Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have been relocating to Lithuania after it became too difficult or, in some cases, even impossible for them to operate in their […]
Pope Francis, arriving in Lithuania on Saturday, might ask the Baltic states for solidarity in accepting refugees escaping war conflicts, Vatican journalists told BNS Lithuania. […]
The European Union remains the center of attraction for economic refugees seeking a better life despite a deal with Turkey that was signed two years ago, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said. […]
Asylum seekers are not allowed to take up jobs or start businesses in Lithuania until they have been granted temporary or permanent residence, but international and some local experts say that changing the rules would benefit the economy and refugee integration, the daily Lietuvos Žinios reported on Thursday. […]
As the European Union (EU) is preparing to revise the asylum system, Lithuania remains in the club of the organization’s Eastern members that are against automatic distribution of refugees among member-states. […]
The deadline established two years ago for EU Member States to take in a fixed number of refugees has expired. Further ways of tackling the problem are currently under debate. In order to shape the […]
Darius Jauniškis, the director of the Lithuanian State Security Department (VSD), says that intelligence agencies are increasingly open to communication with the public as they cannot remain invisible services in this information age. […]
Last weekend’s parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic were won by the billionaire populist Andrej Babiš‘s party ANO, which arose from the civic Dissatisfied Citizen’s Movement. A. Babiš is fairly sceptical of the EU and […]
Lithuania will not slow down the pace of relocation of refugees after expiry of the European Union’s (EU) two-year program, says Interior Minister Eimutis Misiūnas. […]
From the very start it was emphasised that Lithuania’s strategy is to accept vulnerable refugee families with children, but recent research revealed that in fact the most our system is capable of is to integrate […]
Another ten refugees from Eritrea have arrived in Lithuania under the European Union’s (EU) program, the Migration Department said on Friday. […]
In March 2016, Ms. Merkel and Mr. Erdogan reached an agreement on refugees, which would eventually involve all of Europe. Countless refugees, namely Syrians, were trying to reach Europe and in particular Germany, where public opinion slowly started to show signs of opposition to their reception. […]
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