refugees

  • Society

Biggest cities fear new planned refugee integration scheme

Mayors of some of Lithuania's biggest cities fear the government's plans to move refugees directly to municipalities from April and…

8 years ago
  • Society

Lithuania to relocate refugees directly to municipalities from April

Lithuania's non-governmental organizations should shortly provide a list of municipalities willing to receive refugees directly from camps in Greece, Turkey…

8 years ago
  • Society

Ministers off to Rukla to inquire about refugee integration issues

Lithuania's ministers of interior affairs and social security and labour, Eimutis Misiūnas and Linas Kukuraitis, are Monday going to the…

8 years ago
  • Politics

What to observe in Lithuanian politics in 2017

BNS Lithuania news agency lists the most important 2017 projected events on the political and public arena in Lithuania. [...]

8 years ago
  • Society

New SocMin proposes to change refugee reception rules

Social Security and Labour Minister-designate Linas Kukuraitis proposes to change, based on Estonia's model, the way migrants are integrated in…

8 years ago
  • Society

Refugees asking for help to integrate but not for allowances – study

We are asking for the chance of ‘gaining a foothold’ but not for allowances, relocated and resettled persons to Lithuania…

8 years ago
  • Society

Incident in Rukla appears to be provoked by refugees, elder says

The elder of Rukla, a central Lithuanian town where a refugee reception center is located, says that a recent incident…

8 years ago
  • Society

Socmin to call for faster processing of asylum applications

Lithuania's Social Security and Labour Minister Algimanta Pabedinskienė has said following attacks on refugees in Rukla that asylum applications should…

8 years ago
  • Society

Iraqi family going to Lithuanian court after residence permit refusal

An Iraqi family of seven that has been relocated to Lithuania but refused a residence permit here has turned to…

8 years ago
  • Society

Locals throw stones at Syrian teens in Lithuania’s Rukla

Local youths on Friday threw stones at Syrian teenagers from a refugee reception center in Rukla, in central Lithuania, the…

8 years ago
  • Society

Another 11 refugees relocated to Lithuania

Another 11 Syrian and Iraqi refugees arrived in Lithuania on Tuesday evening under the European Union's (EU) relocation program. [...]

8 years ago
  • Politics

Lithuania receives another 13 refugees under EU programme

Another 13 refugees, mainly Syrian nationals, arrived in Lithuania on Thursday under the European Union (EU) relocation programme. [...]

8 years ago
  • Politics

Rukla refugee reception centre may run out of room

After Lithuania started to receive more refugees under the European Union (EU) program, its Rukla refugee reception centre may soon…

8 years ago
  • Society

Lithuania to step up language teaching of refugees

More intensive teaching of the Lithuanian language is planned for refugees – they will have to learn the language to…

8 years ago
  • Society

To Whom It May Concern… before it is too late! #RefugeesLT

This is the first text from our #RefugeesLT initiative.On my third month in Lithuania as a refugee, and as I…

8 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

20 more Syrian refugees relocated to Lithuania under EU programme

Another 20 refugees from Syria arrived in Lithuania on Wednesday under the European Union (EU) resettlement programme. [...]

8 years ago
  • CORPORATE

Latvia struggles to retain refugees

Latvia, which has agreed to take in over 500 refugees under the European Union's resettlement programme, struggles to meet the…

8 years ago
  • Society

Syrian refugee disappointed in Lithuanian landlords

Radwan is a journalist from Syria who moved to Vilnius from a refugee centre a few weeks ago. While he…

8 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Lithuania ‘won’t meet its refugee quota at current relocation pace’

Lithuania can relocate up to 50 refugees a month, but at this rate it will not be able to meet…

8 years ago
  • Society

10 Syrian refugees relocated to Lithuania from Greece

A group of 10 refugees from war-torn Syria came to Lithuania on Monday evening under the European Union's resettlement programme.…

8 years ago