refugee crisis

Former Estonians Prime Minister Taavi Rõivas, who was the youngest Prime Minister in Europe for three years, talked to the Lithuania Tribune (EN.DELFI) about the current European affairs, the transatlantic cooperation, benefits of free trade and where the Baltic States should cooperate more.

An Iraqi refugee family that were resettled to Lithuania last December have left for Sweden. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

Pope Francis arrived in Poland on Wednesday to take part in World Youth Day events. Openness to fellow humans, especially amidst the refugee crisis in Europe, has been the Pope's central message, but will it be heard in the country that has refused to accept refugees, a Lithuanian historian wonders....

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Twelve Syrian refugees and a stateless person from Palestine came to Lithuania from Greece late on Wednesday under the European Union's resettlement program, Interior Minister Tomas Žilinskas has confirmed. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

More refugees will be resettled in Lithuania within the coming month, according to the country's Ministry of the Interior. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

Lithuanian opinions on resettling refugees in their country are divided almost equally between those who would welcome migrants fleeing war and those who would not.

“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.

The latest wave of refugees and migrants to Europe has barely touched Lithuania, and only 11 have been relocated to Lithuania out of its total quota of 1,105. However, many people have expressed a number of unclear fears about the migrants and refugees and seem to lack solidarity with Western Europe...

Lithuania has been slow in taking in refugees under the European Union's resettlement programme and is lagging behind Latvia and Estonia, according to the European Commission.

Refugees fleeing conflicts in the Middle East is not a problem just for Europe to solve, says US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Benjamin G. Ziff.

Romanian President Klaus Iohannis has criticized the European Commission's (EC) proposal to penalize countries that refuse to take in migrants. Sanctions do not help solve anything, Iohannis said on Wednesday in Vilnius.

Lithuania has promised to accept more than 1,000 refugees over the next two years but has barely received a handful of asylum seekers. Though it is not believed that they will start arriving by the hundred this year, the number of those interested in coming to Lithuania is increasing.

Europe must learn from its mistakes and integrate refugees according to the principles of the society as a whole, Geert Bourgeois, the minister-president of Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium, said in Vilnius on Tuesday.

Refugees were the focus of Monday's meeting between Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė and Vatican's Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin.

Lithuanian member of the European Parliament Petras Auštrevičius is sheltering a refugee family from Iraq for half a year, Lietuvos Žinios daily reports.

The European Commission's proposals to automatically relocate migrants to EU member states and impose financial sanctions for refusing to take them in do not contribute to solving the migrant crisis, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Wednesday.

Former Lithuanian president Valdas Adamkus has expressed strong opinions about the refugee crisis affecting Europe, saying that the wave of immigrants could not be trusted, but also saying that categorical positions against the acceptance of refugees were also wrong.