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. […]
Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius has criticised the idea that the country should pick refugees to accept based on their country of origin. […]
Lithuania could take in 250 refugees as a voluntary contribution to the European Union‘s efforts to alleviate the Mediterranean migrant crisis, Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says. According to him, the number of 250 refugees, which the Lithuanian president recently mentioned, matches the country’s capabilities. […]
Lithuania could take in up to 250 refugees, President Dalia Grybauskaitė says. […]
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says the number of refugees that could be relocated to Lithuania will become clear after the meeting of the Council of the Interior Ministers next week. The prime minister added that the number could be up to 40. […]
The meeting of the European Union‘s (EU) Justice and Home Affairs Council next week should establish the number of refugees Lithuania will have to accept, Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis says. […]
Recently, I was asked by radio journalist Aurimas Perednis what I thought about the issue of illegal migrants flooding the EU’s southern states. No one in Europe disputes one thing: the current state of affairs is dangerous and cannot be left to run its own course. […]
Lithuania’s unwillingness to accept refugees that are flooding Southern European countries shows a lack of solidarity with other EU member states, Lithuanian EU Commissioner Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis says. […]
The Lithuanian Seimas Committee on Foreign Affairs has stated that solidarity to distribute refugees among European Union (EU) member states should be understood as a voluntary contribution based on a country’s capabilities. […]
Lithuania’s foreign policy is not without some ambivalence. Vilnius aspires to be a regional leader and set an example to other small countries, Lithuania demands to be treated as a respected full-fledged member of the European Union, NATO and the international community. Its own actions, however, do not always live up to the standard. […]
EU member states should be given the right to decide themselves whether to accept refugees from Greece and Italy and how may of them to accept, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says. […]
The European Commission on Wednesday suggested relocating up to 710 refugees to Lithuania in a move aimed at resolving the Mediterranean migrant crisis. […]
Lithuania ranks 34th out of 38 countries in terms of conditions for migrants, according to the annual Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX 2015). […]
Mandatory refugee quotas for EU member states would run counter to legal practice, therefore, such decisions should be made on a voluntary basis, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius says. […]
At the EU General Affairs Council meeting on 19 May in Brussels, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius discussed progress in implementing measures to tackle migratory flows in the Mediterranean Sea region adopted at a special meeting of the European Council on 23 April 2015. […]
Accepting refugees is not the only way to contribute to the resolution of the existing refugee crisis, and the allocated quotas are still an issue “on paper”, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius says. […]
Kalle Laanet, the chairman of the Estonian parliament’s Constitutional Committee, says the question for Estonia must not be whether the country should receive refugees, but how it should be done, The Baltic Times reports. […]
The European Commission has suggested moving 207 refugees to Lithuania as part of the resolution of the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean Sea, the European Commission Representation in Lithuania says. […]
The 27 European Union (EU) Member States for which data are available granted protection status to 185,000 asylum seekers in 2014, up by almost 50 percent compared with 2013. Since 2008, more than 750,000 asylum seekers have been granted protection status in the EU, said Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. […]
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