Politics
Lithuania’s Labour Party says accepting refugees ‘a mistake’
The Labour Party, which is part of Lithuania’s ruling coalition, issued a statement on Wednesday, calling the country’s decision to accept refugees “a mistake”. […]
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Politics
Refugee resettlement in Lithuania to start next January
The first group of refugees from Africa and the Middle East should be resettled to Lithuania in January 2016, the government’s officials say. […]
European Union
Lithuania to accept 325 refugees over 2 years
Lithuania will accept 325 refugees over the next two years, the country’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Monday. […]
Economy
Could immigration ease Lithuania’s labour shortage?
What should Lithuania make of the European Union’s intention to distribute refugees, who are coming in droves to Italy and Greece, among all member states? Economists at the Baltic Investors Forum discussed whether these people could help solve the country’s labour force shortage. […]
European Union
Distributing refugees alone will not solve problem, Lithuanian president says
Lithuania is ready to share the immigrant burden with South Europe but this measure alone will not solve the problem as without additional measures, it can encourage human trafficking from Africa even more, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Wednesday. […]
European Union
Lithuanian president wants ‘objective criteria’ for refugee relocation
Lithuania hopes the relocation of refugees from Greece and Italy to other EU member states will be based on the same GDP and population criteria after EU members states agreed on the resettlement of refugees from third countries, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Friday. […]
Politics
Lithuania gets ready for refugee challenge
As the European Union launches talks on refugee distribution, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says accepting several hundred refugees is not only a challenge but also an opportunity to solve the problem of short workforce supply. […]
Politics
Foreign minister: Nobody should doubt Lithuania’s willingness to help refugees
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says that Lithuania is not seeking particular quotas or figures as regards the migrant issue, however, it wants the criteria according to which refugees are distributed among the member-states to be transparent and correspondent to the country’s actual possibilities of taking in people. […]
Opinion
Opinion: Open season on scapegoats in Europe
It’s an open season on scapegoats in Europe. If you are not guilty of something, you must be coming from a founding Member State. You can be blamed for bad finances, lack of solidarity or ambition. All these “sins” are disproportionate to the size of your economy and wealth of your society. […]
Society
3 Iraqi refugee families arrive in Lithuania
Three Iraqi families arrived in Vilnius on Friday. The Catholic Church of Lithuania will take care of their accommodation and integration. […]
Politics
Lithuania might have to accept more than 250 refugees, PM says
Lithuania might have to accept more than 250 refugees in an effort to help ease the Mediterranean migrant crisis, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said on Wednesday. […]
Society
Catholic Church to receive 19 Iraqi refugees in Vilnius
The Catholic Church of Lithuania plans to receive and accommodate 19 Iraqis in Vilnius. […]
European Union
Lithuanian president: Mediterranean migrant crisis needs more serious solution
The European Council’s decision to relocate 40,000 refuges from Greece and Italy to other EU member states over the next two years is a symbolic step, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says, adding that the migration problem needs a more serious solution. […]
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European Union
Lithuanian president wants EU’s refugee resettlement scheme to include migrants from Eastern Europe
Lithuania hopes that the European Union‘s refugee resettlement scheme will be voluntary and will not be restricted to only migrants coming from the south. […]
Opinion
Opinion: Differentiating refugees and migrants
Throughout the ages, people have migrated in search of a better life. For some it was about security, for others getting a bit more to eat and then there were those driven by curiosity. The special ability of a person to adapt to new conditions led to us spreading across the world. […]
European Union
Lithuanian government decides on resettlement of 250 refugees
The Lithuanian government gave a green light on Monday to receiving up to 250 refugees distributed by the European Commission (EC) in an effort to help ease the Mediterranean refugee crisis. […]
Politics
Society
4 Iraqi families to be resettled to Lithuania in July
Four Iraqi families that fled persecution in their country will be resettled in Lithuania in early July. […]
European Union
Lithuanian help needed in solving refugee crisis, EC vice-president says
The European Commission‘s Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis says that the principle of voluntary solidarity earlier applied in the efforts to solve the refugee crisis in Southern Europe did not work, therefore, a mechanism of balanced distribution of asylum-seekers is required. […]