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Vilnius rally urges Lithuanians to welcome refugees

September 14, 2015 BNS 0

A campaign to support refugees was held in central Vilnius on Saturday afternoon, urging ordinary residents to contribute to the resettlement of refugees in Lithuania. […]

Lithuania’s Labour Party opposes refugee resettlement

September 11, 2015 ELTA EN 0

As the Seimas Committee on European Affairs convened to consider how many refugees Lithuania is capable to receive, the Labour Party political group said it will vote against the current proposal of resettlement of refugees. […]

Lithuania to oppose EU mandatory migrant quota system

September 11, 2015 BNS 0

The parliamentary European Affairs Committee on Friday gave a green light to the plan to receive 1,105 refugees in Lithuania over the next two years. However, it rejected the permanent mandatory system of migrant quotas proposed by Brussels and Germany. […]

Romas Sadauskas-Kvietkevičius, I. Sadauskienės nuotr.

Opinion: There’s room in Lithuania for 5 million people

September 11, 2015 Romas Sadauskas-Kvietkevicius 0

You know it’s the political autumn with a little over a year left until the Seimas elections simply from the party leaders and MPs being on the lookout for opportunities to give their opinions. Necessarily in the manner so that the voter, after a summer break from talking heads on TV, could tap his representative on a soft shoulder and say: “Well said, I think so too.” […]

Lithuania won’t support permanent crisis resettlement scheme, interior minister says

September 11, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuania intends to speak against the permanent mechanism that would empower the European Commission to decide on refugee resettlement in case of future crises, says the country’s Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis. […]

Lithuanian company has job offers for refugees

September 11, 2015 DELFI EN 0

As thousands of refugees fleeing wars in the Middle East and Africa arrive in Europe, Lithuania, too, is going to accept more asylum seekers than previously planned. Some employers in the country say they will welcome new potential employees. […]

Lithuanian government okays resettlement of 1,105 refugees

September 10, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuania’s government on Thursday gave a green light to resettling 1,105 refugees from countries like Syria, Iraq and Eritrea, under a plan proposed by the European Union (EU). […]

Lithuania’s Grybauskaitė: Solidarity in refugee crisis can’t be ‘coercive mechanism’

September 10, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that the country agrees with Brussels’ recommendation on distribution of refugees, saying that future solidarity in sharing burdens should not be based on “coercive mechanisms”. […]

Lithuania’s State Security Department to screen refugees

September 10, 2015 BNS 0

Incoming refugees will undergo checks in Lithuania, the country’s Interior Ministry says. […]

Opinion: Refugees, Germany and we

September 10, 2015 Kestutis Girnius 0

The current rush of refugees is arguably the greatest challenge for the European Union throughout its history. One should hope that the crisis can be solved without endangering the overall European project. […]

EU Commissioner Andriukaitis compares refugee crisis to post-WWII Lithuanian exodus

September 10, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuania-delegated EU Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis says, in comment on Brussels’ proposal for European countries to share the refugee burden, that Lithuanians should remember their own emigrants who left for the West at the end of World War Two. […]

Lithuanian president to visit Iraqi refugee families

September 10, 2015 ELTA EN 0

President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Thursday will visit homes in St. Peter and St. Paul parish and together with Vilnius Archbishop Gintaras Grušas will meet with families from Iraq living there. […]

Society

Lithuania considers setting up refugee centre divisions across country

September 10, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuania is considering establishing divisions of the Rukla Foreigners Registration Centre in various municipalities as the country prepares to receive more than one thousand refugees. […]

Lithuanian foreign minister sceptical about proposals to consult with parliament about refugee quota

September 10, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Lithuanian Foreign Affairs Minister Linas Linkevičius is sceptical about the recent proposals to consult with entire parliament regarding the refugee quota for Lithuania, rather than just with the Seimas Committee on European Affairs. […]

Lithuanian parliament speaker: Dividing refugees by quotas ‘immoral’

September 9, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužinienė says that distributing refugees by quotas is immoral. She also says there needs to be a systematic approach to the crisis which would distinguish between war refugees and economic migrants. […]

Opinion: Welcome to a world without simple answers

September 9, 2015 Vykintas Pugaciauskas 0

Globalisation that has showed up at Lithuania’s doorstep over these last few days and weeks has caught it utterly unprepared. It is a good thing: a country which still shies away from putting “airport” in English on city buses will have nowhere to hide this time. […]