Redwan Eid, is a Syrian journalist and refugee who had to flee his war-torn homeland and is now one of the first refugees Lithuania has accepted into the country. Here is his story.
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Another 11 refugees – originally from Syria but lately living in a refugee camp in Greece – arrived in Lithuania in the early hours of Friday. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.
Another 12 Syrian refugees arrived in Lithuania on Monday evening under the European Union's resettlement programme.
Ten refugees from Syria and Iraq arrived in Lithuania in early hours of Friday under the European Union's resettlement programme. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.
Redwan Eid, is a Syrian journalist and refugee who had to flee his war-torn homeland and is now one of the first refugees Lithuania has accepted into the country. Here is his story.
After the latest EU deal to extend more credit to Greece, Lithuanian economists are divided on whether the EU bailout has helped Greece and put it on the road to recovery, or has simply bailed out European banks at the cost of the EU taxpayer and the Greek public.
Spending a night at a hotel in Lithuania's seaside or lakeside resorts has become as expensive as booking accommodation in Italy or Greece.
Russian President Vladimir Putin offered to build an "equal and fair dialogue" with the European Union on the eve of his visit to Greece.
“Europe hasn't failed, states have – as administrative subjects”, Raul Romeva, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Institutional Relations and Transparency in the Catalan Government, said as he closed an international forum on refugee integration earlier in May.
A second Afghani refugee has made plea for asylum in Lithuania via a youtube video. The country's defence minister says, however, that not all Afghanis who worked with Lithuanian troops deserve to be relocated.
Local interpreters who worked with NATO troops in Afghanistan knew they were risking their lives and the compensation many of them received turned out to be inadequate, especially after the Alliance pulled out.
Free movement within the European Union's Schengen zone is facing a challenge, unless the EU effectively protects its external borders, says Renatas Požėla, the chief of Lithuania's State Border Guard Service.
"Laba diena visiems iš Lietuvos," Basir, a refugee from Afghanistan's Ghor Province, addresses people of Lithuania and the country's president in a youtube video posted by an American journalist from a refugee camp in Greece.
After two days of negotiations, Turkey and the European Union reached a compromise agreement on a plan to reduce the flow of migrants from the Middle East to Europe. At a summit concluding March 18, the heads of government of the 28 EU members and their Turkish counterparts approved the plan, which ...
Last week the first refugees from Syria settled in the Rukla refugee reception camp – 29-year-old painter and graphic designer Majd Kara and 27-year-old English teacher Mohammed Farah told of how they came to end up in Lithuania - a story about the refugee smuggling business.
The European Union and Turkey agreed on a deal on Friday which will mean that migrants arriving in Greece from Sunday will be sent back across the Aegean Sea.
The European Union's (EU) agreement with Turkey on returning migrants may open new migration routes to Europe, Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė said after arriving at the European Summit on Thursday.
As part of the European Union's attempt to help solve the migrant and refugee crisis, Lithuania plans to provide Turkey, which has pledged to accept illegal immigrants traveling to Greece, with €5.2 million.
After the European Union cut off migrant routes via Libya to Italy and agreed with Turkey to stem migrant flows across the Aegean to Greece, the Baltic States fear that migrants from the Middle East might discover new routes via Russia, making them their gateway to the European Union.
On Monday, Lithuania's Ministry of the Interior announced that two Syrian refugees had been relocated to Lithuania in accordance with the European Union's agreement with Greece.
