refugees

Parliament member Giedrė Purvaneckienė, of the Social Democrats, has drafted a bill which would outlaw female genital mutilation.

Lithuania will manage to successfully integrate refugees from the Middle East, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius believes, but said that the process will present many challenges.

Drivers in all 28 EU member states, including Lithuania, may be forced to pay a special refugee tax for each litre of fuel purchased at gas stations.

Policymakers increasingly admit that Europe’s refugee relocation mechanism is stalling – countries like Lithuania feel it first-hand. Lithuania's participation has not started on a high note – the only family (four persons) relocated under the mechanism is already suing the country for granting lega...

The European Commission could find additional funding for handling the refugee crisis by reviewing the European Union's budget, said Lithuanian Finance Minister Rimantas Šadžius.

The lawsuit against the Lithuanian state by a migrant family from Iraq who arrived in Lithuania last December under the European Union's refugee resettlement programme will help clarify refugee handling procedures, according to legal experts.

Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius and LRT.lt Editor-in-Chief Vladimiras Laučius sat down to talk about some of the greatest issues challenging the unity of the European Union. The distribution of power among the EU's institutions, the Schengen zone, and the future of the refug...

Latvia is planning to introduce a ban on wearing face-covering clothes in public places, Latvian Justice Minister Dzintars Rasnacs said on Monday.

An Iraqi migrant family, which were the first to arrive in Lithuania under the European Union's refugee resettlement programme last December, is suing the Migration Department for not granting them refugee status.

The tragic stabbing on 12:45 Monday of Arminas Pileckas, a 15-year-old Lithuanian boy living in Sweden, by a 14-year-old boy while the two were at school may potentially bring the discussion about refugees back to the forefront of the Lithuanian public's attention. Though the Swedish police have yet...

"Cultural norms" and laws will have to be explained to refugees who will be resettled in Lithuania, says Lithuanian president's chief foreign policy adviser Renaldas Vaisbrodas.

Lithuanian residents would prefer to receive immigrants of the same ethnic group or race with barely 13 percent wanting to accept immigrants that are of another race or ethnic group. A survey performed by the Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) revealed these and other insights into the Lithuanian...

A Lithuanian police officer, who was sent to assist with the refugee crisis in Slovenia, sustained a minor injury. His hand was pinned by a barrier while on duty at a refugee camp on Monday.

Lithuanians should show their support for the EU not just in relation to EU investments in energy projects in Lithuania but also in helping other EU member states to solve the refugee crisis, says Vytenis Andriukaitis, the EU Health and Food Safety Commissioner.

On International Migrants Day (18 December), Statistics Lithuania announced that, over the last decade, 126,000 new residents immigrated into Lithuania while 438,500 emigrated. From 2005 to 2014, the percentage of emigrants of ages 20-39 grew from 51.9 to 59.2 percent. In 2014, as many as 82 percent...

“We’re taking 1,105 refugees only and no more. We’ll house them in closed off areas and then ask them to leave. That’s how Lithuania will resist the EU 'Diktat', defend its sovereignty and avoid the trouble plaguing Europe”. That’s the talk of certain politicians who have remained silent about the f...

Attending the European Council on Thursday, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said that Lithuania would not participate in the newly suggested refugee resettlement from Turkey scheme until the earlier quota of 1,105 asylum seekers for Lithuania is completed.

The refugee crisis has uncovered a major flaw in the European Union's (EU) policy of free movement of people: porous external borders. Lithuanian commentators say some countries are just not interested in solving the problem.

The first group of Iraqi refugees relocated to Lithuania through an EU programme arrived in Vilnius on Tuesday afternoon.

Lithuania has transferred EUR 150,000 to the Migrant and Refugee Fund (MRF).