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Foreign affairs

Lithuania’s ForMin to renounce commercial visa intermediaries in Russia

Lithuania’s visa services will stop cooperation with commercial intermediaries selling travel organization services in Russia while issuing Schengen visas as of February, according to an order signed by Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius. […]

Even when signing books always the consumate politician, Guy Verhofstadt at the  Vilnius Book Fair  Photo © Ludo Segers @ The Lithuania Tribune
European Union

Guy Verhofstadt Brings his EU reform ideas to Vilnius

A large enthusiast and captivated audience came out on a very cold Saturday afternoon to hear former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt speak at the annual Vilnius Book Fair. Verhofstadt is currently fraction leader of the Liberal Group in the European parliament. However, on Saturday his main message were his ideas for European reform and to make the EU stronger, more efficient, and to avoid more Brexit-like defections of the world’s largest and most powerful trading block. […]

The first refugee family relocated to Lithuania under the EU's resettlement programme arrives to Lithuania
Society

First refugee family relocated to Lithuania lose their residence permit

The Iraqis who in December 2015 became the first refugee family relocated to Lithuania under the EU’s resettlement program have lost their residence permit as they failed to return to the country from Sweden within six months. […]

A photo from Jasper Bastian's "A Road Not Taken"
Culture

Photographer explores Lithuanian region torn in two by border with Belarus

Jasper Walter Bastian, an award-winning German-American documentary photographer, has created a photo series called “A Road Not Taken” that explores the town of Dieveniškės, located only 6 kilometres form the Belarusian border, and the surrounding Šalčininkai region. […]

Dalia Grybauskaitė
European Union

Grybauskaitė to discuss energy, border protection and UK’s reforms with EU council

On Thursday, 17 December, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė will travel to Brussels to attend a European Council meeting and discuss additional measures to manage the migration crisis, including the setting up of a European Border and Coast Guard. European leaders will also exchange views on how to strengthen the EU’s energy union and will address EU reforms proposed by the United Kingdom, the presidency said. […]

Petras Auštrevičius
European Union

Lithuanian MEP: Europe shouldn’t change principles that worked so far

Petras Auštrevičius, a liberal member of the European Parliament, says that European policies need to change. The Lithuanian MEP believes, however, that Europe itself is a great structure and should not be changed. […]