Shulga T. Foreign policy of the Republic of Lithuania through the example of migration and energy spheres.

The research contains the characteristics of the Republic of Lithuania’s foreign policy in migration and energy spheres, defines the factors influencing the development and implementation of the foreign policy in these spheres with regard to both the EU, its members and third states, as well as the author’s evaluation of the relevance to consider the Lithuanian experience in development of foreign policy taking into account Ukraine’s eurointegration aspirations. The areas of the foreign policy selected for the research require the largest number of measures for their implementation both inside and outside of the EU, so they provide the widest understanding of the state’s place on the international arena. The characteristics of Lithuania’s foreign policy in the migration sphere is presented through the prism of the following aspects: the EU migration crisis of 2015; Lithuania’s policy on overcoming the effects of the EU migration crisis, including the integration of foreigners; state’s labour crisis and measures for its settlement, including the return of emigrants and free labour market for migrants from third countries, including from Ukraine; the Republic of Lithuania’s national minorities integration into social and political life as the one of the most important factors of domestic stability. The characteristics of the energy foreign policy direction of the Republic of Lithuania is presented through the prism of measures aimed at ensuring its energy security by diversifying energy supply sources, overcoming energy market monopoly and state’s infrastructure integration into the EU single energy market.