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Lithuania can relocate up to 50 refugees a month, but at this rate it will not be able to meet its commitment to accept 1,105 migrants under the EU's resettlement programme by the end of 2017, Interior Minister Tomas Žilinskas said on Tuesday. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription b...
A group of 10 refugees from war-torn Syria came to Lithuania on Monday evening under the European Union's resettlement programme.
Interior Minister Tomas Žilinskas says that the Iraqi refugee family who have asylum in Lithuania, but have been away in Sweden for more than a month now, have not broken any rules as yet. 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.
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.
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.
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.
With the EU's resettlement programme having reached its midway point, Lithuania faces the challenge of taking in more than a thousand refugees from the Middle East within slightly more than a year and successfully integrating them into the society. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscript...
Interior Minister Tomas Žilinskas has criticized Lithuania's refugee integration policy, saying that newcomers in integration centres are placed in a social environment that is not conductive to successful integration. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.
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.
Eight Syrians have been relocated to Lithuania as part of the European Union’s (EU) resettlement programme. 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.
Lithuania's ruling parties are signing a joint declaration on Friday, criticizing the European Union's refugee policies.
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.
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.
