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Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with British Prime Minister David Cameron in Brussels on Thursday and stressed that any EU reform must not undermine free movement of people, goods, services and capital.

Lithuania hopes that the European Union's refugee resettlement scheme will be voluntary and will not be restricted to only migrants coming from the south.

The Lithuanian government gave a green light on Monday to receiving up to 250 refugees distributed by the European Commission (EC) in an effort to help ease the Mediterranean refugee crisis.

The Government of Lithuania on Wednesday agreed that Lithuania would be ready to accept up to 250 refugees over the course of two years as part of the EU effort to resolve the Mediterranean refugee crisis.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė hopes the European Council will extend the sectoral sanctions for Russia, in place since last July, during its meeting several weeks hence.

The European Parliament opened discussions about a report on EU-Russia relations, drafted by Lithuanian MEP Gabrielius Landsbergis, on Tuesday. Some MEPs called for separating the Russian society and the country's government while others accused Europe of expansionism.

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.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė made her annual State of the Nation address at the Lithuanian parliament, Seimas, on Thursday. In her speech, the president mostly focused on national defence, security challenges stemming from Russia's aggressive policies, as well as emigration of working-age...

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.

Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius is leaving for Brussels on Monday to attend a meeting of the European Union's (EU) Foreign Affairs Council dedicated to security and defense policy issues and threats in the EU neighborhood.

Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis, a member of the ruling Social Democratic Party and currently a European Union commissioner, stated at the party's congress on Friday that statements about Russia being a "terrorist state", made by President Dalia Grybauskaitė, leads to a "psychosis" about Lithuania's po...

Big changes often seem to move forward painfully slowly, while the most sweeping of them get triggered by steps no one thought very consequential. It is especially true of the policies of the European Union with its notoriously cumbersome decision-making procedures and contradictory interests. Could...

The Seimas Committee on Rural Affairs has addressed the Government asking to ban cultivation of genetically modified organisms (GMO) in Lithuania and thus implement the European Parliament's and the European Council's directive on GMOs.

The Lithuania Tribune / EN.DELFI TV spoke to Linas Kojala, Analyst at the Eastern Europe Studies Centre. European Council is looking at suggestions made by Lithuania and other eastern member states that are designed to counter propaganda and information attacks against the European Union. What are t...

The European Union's (EU) institutions intend to work out a strategic communication plan by June to “challenge Russia's ongoing disinformation campaigns”, heads of EU states and governments have agreed in Brussels.

European Union leaders have decided to maintain economic sanctions on Russia until the end of the year.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has left for Brussels to attend a European Council meeting on 19-20 March, the presidential press service reports.

There is no doubt who gained most from the deal reached in Minsk on February 12th to end the conflict in Ukraine: Russian President Vladimir Putin. At a minimum, a frozen conflict will block Ukraine’s progress towards NATO and the EU; and if fighting resumes, the terms of the ceasefire will leave Uk...

The European security strategy does not reflect today's realities and must be updated, says Lithuanian Defence Minister Juozas Olekas.