Lithuania’s authorities are on Tuesday starting to move the most vulnerable groups of migrants to a new camp in Rukla, a town in the central district of Jonava. “Today, the first 40 will reach the new camp in Rukla,” Social Security and Labor Minister Monika Navickiene told LRT Radio. TheContinue Reading
Some 562 irregular migrants have had their applications for political asylum in Lithuania examined and rejected, and 130 of them have left the country since the start of the year, the Interior Ministry said on Tuesday. The ministry published statistics showing that around 2,400 people have been turned away sinceContinue Reading
EU Interior Ministers met on Tuesday evening to thrash out a response to the Afghan crisis, and Finland was represented there by Green leader Maria Ohisalo. Instinctively pro-immigration, Ohisalo might not have had a comfortable evening as the ministers argued about the use of the term ‘illegal immigration’. Euronews reportsContinue Reading
In Lithuania, the emergency camps set up by authorities to hundreds of people, who have illegally crossed into the country from Belarus, have scarce and inhumane living conditions a volunteer has warned. The Interior Minister has spoken of current focus to improve living conditions vulnerable groups, while others have toContinue Reading