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Opinion: Mandatory refugee quotas are threat to Lithuania's sovereignty
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On Tuesday, the European Union's (EU) interior ministers accepted a plan to redistribute 160,000 refugees that had come to Europe. Similar talks one week earlier failed, because several Central-Eastern European countries opposed the scheme. Lithuania has already committed itself to accepting 1,105 refugees; in the long run, though, the number might grow ten times.