Refugees
Society

Refugee crisis is a missed opportunity for Lithuania – Kaunas conference

Young people from all over Europe have come to Kaunas to tackle one of the most sensitive issues in the European Union – the integration of refugees – coming with a range of approaches to developing ways to help refugees join the labour market and integrate into society. […]

Monika Garbačiauskaitė-Budrienė
Opinion

Opinion:Political Correctness – a road to hell paved with good intentions

A year ago, when Islamist radicals shot and killed eight members of Charlie Hebdo’s editorial office, Europe bravely stood up for freedom of speech and declared it would not be intimidated. A free press is exactly what separates us from undemocratic regimes, and we will fight for it. When those attacks happened, we couldn’t have dreamed in our worst nightmares that Europe itself would soon voluntarily give up freedom of speech, embracing a new era of political correctness where democratic states like Germany or Sweden would be reluctant to share the real truth. […]

Rimantas Vaitkus
CORPORATE

Lithuania blames slow refugee resettlement on Greece, Italy

Refugee resettlement to Lithuania is taking more time than anticipated because Greece and Italy are too slow in processing refugees, Vice-Chancellor of the government Rimantas Vaitkus told Žinių radijas. […]

Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Foreign affairs

Lithuania allocates €20k to refugees in Turkey

Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Thursday it had allocated EUR 20,000 in humanitarian aid to refugees in Turkey. […]