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Lithuanian interior minister: Refugee resettlement is test for administration and society
Refugee resettlement is an exam for state institutions and the civil society, says Lithuania’s Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis. […]
Society
Politics
Lithuanian PM hints at ‘communication campaigns’ on refugees
The public needs more information about the refugee crisis, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says, hinting at launching a “communication campaign” on the issue. […]
Opinion
Opinion: Indian-American’s letter to Lithuanians
I am brown, but I am not one of them or of you. I am on neither side, and honestly I don’t even care to take sides. But I am caught in the cross-fire, I had three incidents of cars trying to run me over in just the last 30 days. […]
European Union
EC decisions will help to manage migration crisis, Lithuanian president says
The strategic decisions made by the European Council on Wednesday will help to manage the migration crisis, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian parliament speaker to go to Germany to discuss refugee situation
A delegation led by Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Loreta Graužinienė will go to Germany in October to discuss the refugee situation. […]
Foreign affairs
Opinion
Opinion: Mandatory refugee quotas are threat to Lithuania’s sovereignty
On Tuesday, the European Union‘s (EU) interior ministers accepted a plan to redistribute 160,000 refugees that had come to Europe. Similar talks one week earlier failed, because several Central-Eastern European countries opposed the scheme. Lithuania has already committed itself to accepting 1,105 refugees; in the long run, though, the number might grow ten times. […]
Society
Lithuania planning refugee integration centres in Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipėda
Refugee integration centres will be opened in Lithuania’s largest cities of Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipėda, the Ministry of Welfare and Labour said. […]
European Union
Lithuanian president goes to EU Council meeting on refugee crisis
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė will on Wednesday travel to Brussels for an extraordinary meeting of the European Council, which has been convened as a matter of urgency to find a unified and effective response to the deepening refugee crisis. […]
European Union
Lithuania backs EU refugee sharing plan
Despite objections from some Central and Eastern European countries, the European Union‘s interior ministers on Tuesday voted in support of the plan to share 120,000 refugees. […]
Politics
Lithuania’s municipalities reluctant to welcome refugees
As Lithuania has agreed to relocate 1,105 refugees, the country’s Welfare and Labour Minister Algimanta Pabedinskienė has sent out letters to each of Lithuania’s 60 municipalities asking them to specify how much they can contribute to the effort. The responses have been less than encouraging. […]
European Union
EU ministers gather for meeting on refugees
Lithuanian Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis is on Tuesday going to Brussels to attend a meeting of EU ministers where they will try to reach an agreement on the relocation of 160,000 refugees who have come to Europe. […]
European Union
Lithuanian PM and EU’s Mogherini discuss refugee crisis
On Monday, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius met with Federica Mogherini, European Commission Vice-President, European Union‘s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, to discuss the refugee crisis and ways to strengthen strategic communications, as well as other matters of international importance, the press service of the Government said. […]
Foreign affairs
Society
Study estimates benefits of accepting refugees for Lithuania
In the “optimistic scenario”, Lithuania will recover what it will have invested into resettling and integrating refugees within five years. The “pessimistic scenario” draws the line at nine years. In either case, the country will benefit from accepting refugees: Lithuania will have demonstrated its adherence to the European Union values. Not to mention the migrants’ contribution to economic growth. […]