• July 22, 2013: The European Union listed the Hezbollah Military Wing as a terrorist organization. 
• August 13, 2020: Lithuania banned all affiliates of Hezbollah from entering the country.

The European Union decided to ban Hezbollah’s military wing in July of 2013 in response to concerns over the group’s military involvement in the Syrian Civil War, and its suspected responsibility for a bombing of a civilian bus in Burgas, Bulgaria in 2012. The E.U. has resisted calls to proscribe the whole of the group, presumably for the same reasons as France, which holds considerable sway in the E.U.’s decision-making on the matter.

On August 13, 2020, Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that Vilnius was barring entry to its soil for Hezbollah and its affiliates. The announcement cited “information acquired by [Lithuania’s] institutions and partners [leading to the conclusion] that ‘Hezbollah’ uses terrorist means that pose threat to the security of a significant number of countries, including Lithuania,” without elaborating on the specific nature of those threats. Lithuania’s decision seems to have been a result of information received from Israel, as the MFA’s statement cited, “the successful cooperation between the Lithuanian and Israeli national security agencies…in helping ensure the safety of our citizens.” However, the Lithuanian foreign ministry’s statement did not explicitly mention that the country had outlawed Hezbollah in its entirety.