The European Union might have to sacrifice the free movement of people for the sake of security, if it fails to control the flow of migrants, Lithuanian Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Tuesday. […]
The European Union must tighten its immigration policies as a massive influx of refugees could otherwise create political instability, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said in an interview to Bloomberg. […]
Parliament member Giedrė Purvaneckienė, of the Social Democrats, has drafted a bill which would outlaw female genital mutilation. […]
Lithuania will manage to successfully integrate refugees from the Middle East, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius believes, but said that the process will present many challenges. […]
Policymakers increasingly admit that Europe’s refugee relocation mechanism is stalling – countries like Lithuania feel it first-hand. Lithuania’s participation has not started on a high note – the only family (four persons) relocated under the mechanism is already suing the country for granting legal protection rather than refugee status. […]
The European Commission could find additional funding for handling the refugee crisis by reviewing the European Union‘s budget, said Lithuanian Finance Minister Rimantas Šadžius. […]
The lawsuit against the Lithuanian state by a migrant family from Iraq who arrived in Lithuania last December under the European Union‘s refugee resettlement programme will help clarify refugee handling procedures, according to legal experts. […]
Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius and LRT.lt Editor-in-Chief Vladimiras Laučius sat down to talk about some of the greatest issues challenging the unity of the European Union. The distribution of power among the EU’s institutions, the Schengen zone, and the future of the refugees coming to Europe will all be tested in 2016. […]
An Iraqi migrant family, which were the first to arrive in Lithuania under the European Union‘s refugee resettlement programme last December, is suing the Migration Department for not granting them refugee status. […]
The tragic stabbing on 12:45 Monday of Arminas Pileckas, a 15-year-old Lithuanian boy living in Sweden, by a 14-year-old boy while the two were at school may potentially bring the discussion about refugees back to the forefront of the Lithuanian public’s attention. Though the Swedish police have yet to confirm the 14-year-old suspect’s name or identity, several Swedish media sites, as well as what is allegedly a video of the altercation that led to the stabbing, indicate that the suspect may have been a Syrian refugee. […]
“Cultural norms” and laws will have to be explained to refugees who will be resettled in Lithuania, says Lithuanian president’s chief foreign policy adviser Renaldas Vaisbrodas. […]
Lithuanian residents would prefer to receive immigrants of the same ethnic group or race with barely 13 percent wanting to accept immigrants that are of another race or ethnic group. A survey performed by the Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) revealed these and other insights into the Lithuanian public’s opinions regarding immigrants. […]
Lithuanians should show their support for the EU not just in relation to EU investments in energy projects in Lithuania but also in helping other EU member states to solve the refugee crisis, says Vytenis Andriukaitis, the EU Health and Food Safety Commissioner. […]
On International Migrants Day (18 December), Statistics Lithuania announced that, over the last decade, 126,000 new residents immigrated into Lithuania while 438,500 emigrated. From 2005 to 2014, the percentage of emigrants of ages 20-39 grew from 51.9 to 59.2 percent. In 2014, as many as 82 percent of working-age people had not worked for a year or longer before leaving the country. […]
“We’re taking 1,105 refugees only and no more. We’ll house them in closed off areas and then ask them to leave. That’s how Lithuania will resist the EU ‘Diktat’, defend its sovereignty and avoid the trouble plaguing Europe”. That’s the talk of certain politicians who have remained silent about the fact that, in recent years, the number of foreigners has risen sharply without a single refugee having been accepted and with immigration challenges still to be faced. […]
Attending the European Council on Thursday, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said that Lithuania would not participate in the newly suggested refugee resettlement from Turkey scheme until the earlier quota of 1,105 asylum seekers for Lithuania is completed. […]
The refugee crisis has uncovered a major flaw in the European Union‘s (EU) policy of free movement of people: porous external borders. Lithuanian commentators say some countries are just not interested in solving the problem. […]
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