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Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who is attending a European Council meeting to discuss the refugee crisis, says that economic migrants should be separated from genuine war-fleeing refugees and the latter are not supposed to be picky which safe country to go to.
What are our obligations to those threatened by war and violence? What and how much can we cope with? When will we reach our uppermost limits? Each of these three questions is quite legitimate. But if the debate is restricted to the media soundbites “we can do it” and “the boat is full”, then the re...
A delegation of the Lithuanian government is visiting Italy where it is looking into how the country, which has been one of the gateways of migrants from the Middle East and Africa coming to Europe, is handling the refugee flow.
An interdepartmental commission, set up in Lithuania to oversee resettlement and integration of refugees, is putting together a plan how to promote the country among asylum seekers. Lithuania has pledged to resettle 1,105 refugees as part of an EU effort to ease the refugee crisis and will seek that...
On Thursday Lithuania's Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis is attending the European Union's (EU) Justice and Home Affairs Council in Luxembourg. Responding to a recent refugee crisis, ministers of the EU member states will negotiate on external border control and on the future of return policies ...
As the Lithuanian delegation visiting Greece has so far struggled to find a refugee family willing to seek asylum in Lithuania, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that the country must to more to inform refugees about itself and "motivate" them to come.
As a Lithuanian delegation is visiting Greece and unsuccessfully looking for refugees who could be resettled to Lithuania, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that migrants will not be brought to Lithuania by force. He hopes to find ways to encourage refugees to come here voluntarily.
Russia's recent involvement in the war in Syria will only worsen the plight of refugees who are making their way to Europe in thousands, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says.
A delegation from Lithuania, led by Deputy Minister of Interior Elvinas Jankevičius, continues a visit in Greece where on Monday it met with local officials to discuss selection and resettlement of asylum seekers.
Amid growing migrant flows to Europe, people fear that refugees will bring old forgotten diseases. However, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis, has rejected such fears, saying they are groundless.
A delegation from Lithuania, led by Elvinas Jankevičius, Deputy Minister of Interior, is starting a visit in Greece on Monday where officials of both countries will discuss resettlement of refugees.
Discussions about the refugee crisis and how to solve it has moved from the European Union to the United Nations General Assembly, where most national leaders spoke about settling the conflicts in Syria and Iraq and fighting international terrorism. Among the highlights were the speeches and meeting...
Social Security and Labour Minister Algimanta Pabedinskienė on Wednesday met with representatives of employers and investors and discussed the best ways to integrate refugees in Lithuania's labour market. The minister was interested in the employers' needs and capabilities.
One in three Lithuanians are willing to personally contribute to the resettlement of refugees, according to a survey carried out for the Civil Society Institute in mid-September. Meanwhile half of the population would do nothing.
About 100 people gathered in Kudirkos Square near the Government building in central Vilnius on Tuesday evening to protest against resettlement of refugees from the Middle East and Africa in Lithuania.
Lithuania may start bringing the first group of 40-50 refugees from war-struck Middle Eastern and African countries this year, with the first groups arriving in November, an interinstitutional commission said at a meeting on Tuesday.
There a lack of inter-institutional cooperation in Lithuania as the Baltic country prepares to receive refugees, Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Loreta Graužinienė said on Monday after her visit to the Refugees Reception Centrė in Rukla, central Lithuania.
Pierre Naoum sold his property in Syria and invested the money into a pizza restaurant that he opened in Vilnius, Lithuania, where he was granted asylum.
Every university of Lithuania intends to enrol between several and a few dozen refugees, financing their tuition.
The Lithuanian Tatar community has offered to help the country's government with the integration of refugees to be resettled in Lithuania. Lithuania's Tatars also call on people not to be afraid of Muslims and not to identify them with extremist groups.
