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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 or Italy, with plans to implement the new scheme starting April, says Social Security and Labour Minister Linas Kukuraitis. […]
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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 Refugee Reception Centre in Rukla to inquire about refugee integration issues. […]
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. […]
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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 Lithuania in order to stop relocated refugees from leaving the country. […]
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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 be processed faster by migration authorities. […]
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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 court over the Migration Department’s decision. […]
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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 start running short on accommodation for all newcomers. […]
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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 the initial level of A1 within a month. […]
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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 am passing through different situations here varying between the good and bad, I can confidently say now that Lithuanians have all the good seeds inside them to blossom and prove they are not less in generosity and willingness to extend a hand to help than any other nation who has received refugees along the history so far. I could see this with all my Lithuanian friends around me and even those who I met by chance in the streets as I needed to ask about anything and they happened to know that I am a refugee. […]
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. […]
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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 quota and making sure that the refugees stay in the country. The migrant crisis in […]
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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 has already successfully found employment at Western Union, many potential landlords shut their doors upon seeing Radwan, with even some Facebook groups dedicated to looking for housing removing him. […]
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 its commitment to accept 1,105 migrants under the EU’s resettlement programme by the end of 2017, Interior Minister Tomas Žilinskas said on Tuesday.
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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. […]