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Совет ЕС обновил рекомендации о временных ограничениях на въезд в ЕС в случаях, когда речь не идет о "жизненной необходимости". Это следует из заявления совета, распространенного в четверг, 20 мая, в Брюсселе.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte has written to President Gitanas Nauseda this week, inviting him to agree on who of them should take part in the European Council's meeting ahead of each summit.

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius met with the United Kingdom's new Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson in Brussels on Monday. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

Eugenijus Liubenka has been appointed as a special state border protection attaché of the Republic of Lithuania to Lithuania‘s representation to the EU.

European Council President Donald Tusk has said economic migrants will not be welcome in Europe, making an appeal not to come and warning they will they will be turned away.

Warsaw cannot ignore the fundamental rules of the European Union said a leading Lithuanian political scientist as the European Commission opened an unprecedented investigation into the rule of law in Poland.

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė will on Wednesday travel to Brussels for an extraordinary meeting of the European Council, which has been convened as a matter of urgency to find a unified and effective response to the deepening refugee crisis.

The German daily Berliner Zeitung was the first one to report about the resignation of Ambassador Heidi Tagliavini as OSCE special envoy in Ukraine and OSCE representative at the Minsk peace talks. This lady made her name in political and diplomatic quarters when the international commission she led...

Latvia has officially handed over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU) to Luxembourg.

Greece wants to feast and to have other countries pay its bills, Lithuania’s president has said, adding that Lithuania has a tough stance towards the Greek debt crisis in particular as the country does not want, in the president's words, to take responsibility for several decades of living beyond it...

Emergency euro area’s summit, which will be held on Monday, may rouse Greece to action in addressing the debt crisis, Lithuania’s Finance Minister has said.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius participated in the 6th Annual Forum of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR) in Jurmala, Latvia. He met with his Latvian counterpart Laimdota Straujuma to discuss intergovernmental cooperation and bilateral and multilateral meetings that a...

The meeting of the European Union's (EU) Justice and Home Affairs Council next week should establish the number of refugees Lithuania will have to accept, Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis says.

Recently, I was asked by radio journalist Aurimas Perednis what I thought about the issue of illegal migrants flooding the EU's southern states. No one in Europe disputes one thing: the current state of affairs is dangerous and cannot be left to run its own course.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Thursday and Friday is attending the EU Eastern Partnership summit in Riga. The summit will review the results of the Eastern Partnership programme achieved after the Vilnius summit held at the end of 2013 and will outline guidelines for further cooperation...

Big changes often seem to move forward painfully slowly, while the most sweeping of them get triggered by steps no one thought very consequential. It is especially true of the policies of the European Union with its notoriously cumbersome decision-making procedures and contradictory interests. Could...

The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) is the instrument through which the European Union (EU) aims to create bonds between its Member States and the countries at the boundaries of the EU and thus secure the stability of the European borders. The EU stipulates Association Agreements offering financ...

Lithuania supports the proposal of the European Commission revised by Latvia, which is presiding over the EU Council, to establish the market stability reserve for the EU greenhouse gas emission allowances trading system, Lithuania's Ministry of Environment reports.

“The legacy left by the Italian Presidency to Europe is growth and not just austerity,” according to Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi in his address to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, on November 26, 2014, when Juncker’s new plan was presented.

In deciding whether Latvian President Andris Bērziņš should attend Russia's Victory Day celebrations in Moscow on May 9, he should take into account the fact that Latvia is presiding over the Council of the European Union, said Latvia's Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs in an interview to the LNT sh...