Ministry of Interior

The Management Board of the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) has elected its Lithuanian member, Ms Evelina Gudzinskaitė, as its new chair. A graduate of Vilnius University, she has served as director of the Migration Department under the Ministry of Interior in Lithuania since 2015, the EUAA ...

Lithuanian institutions' anti-emigration policies have had little effect – statistics indicate that last year, more people left Lithuania than during the year before. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

The Ministry of Interior has decided to refuse the proposal to implement zero tolerance laws for blood alcohol content while driving.

Lithuanian electric vehicles will receive special registration numbers.

Alcolock system and rehabilitation program for drunk drivers will soon be introduced in Lithuania. The road traffic safety draft is being prepared by the Communications Ministry together with the Ministry of Interior and the Road and Transport Research Institute specialists.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė said not only the state but society as well had to take care of children growing up in dysfunctional families after the tragic events in Saviečiai village in Kėdainiai district when a 36-year-old father killed his two children by throwing them into a well.

Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has instructed the head of the State Security Department (VSD) together with Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis to carry out a comprehensive inquiry into the Public Security Service (VST) under the Ministry of the Interior following an article in the media.

Lithuania‘s police officers have expressed their support for Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis who handed his letter of resignation to the prime minister on Friday, following criticism by Parliament Speaker Loreta Graužinienė and President Dalia Grybauskaitė. The Lithuanian Department of the Inte...

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.

A group of Lithuanian MPs have suggested that parliament should have a say on issues concerning refugee resettlement. Meanwhile the ruling Social Democratic Party has offered a political agreement among Lithuania's major parties, saying that an issue as sensitive as asylum seekers should not be made...

Lithuania's Ministry of the Interior is considering establishing a special division to coordinate inter-institutional activity in the area of migration, Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Tuesday.

Incoming refugees will undergo checks in Lithuania, the country's Interior Ministry says.

Lithuania President Dalia Grybauskaitė has criticised Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis' initiative under which heads of institutions subordinate to the ministry were banned from meeting politicians without informing the minister first.

Saulius Skvernelis, Minister of Interior of Lithuania, instructed his staff to draft a new procedure which will significantly ease and speed up the process for non-EU companies planning to invest in Lithuania.

The list of foreigners barred from entering Lithuania was extended last year, and the majority on the list were citizens of Russia and Belarus, shows data published by the Ministry of Interior Affairs.

On 10 May, a large-scale military operation was conducted in Švenčionėliai town, which was the last phase of the exercise Lightning Bolt 2015.

Minister of the Interior Saulius Skvernelis admits that when discussing the improvement of officers' situation at the Cabinet of Ministers, his position is weakened by him not being a member of any party.

Lithuania's Interior Ministry has turned to the Prosecutor General's Office over the ministry's two public procurement contracts related to IT services.

Deputy Commissioner General of Lithuania's police Renatas Požela is to be appointed head of the country's State Border Guard Service, the government said on Thursday.

Lithuanian institutions suggest that the country should no longer keep secret the national black list of people barred from entering Lithuania due to potential threat to national security.