Financial institutions’ profits up to EUR 326.3 million in 2022 despite various economic challenges
Latvian monetary financial institutions (MFI) – mainly banks – operated with profits of EUR 326.3 million in 2022, which is 26.5% more when…
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Expert: Russian nuclear threat no longer works
Estonian security expert Rainer Saks says that in this phase of the war we can be sure that the use of nuclear weapons…
European Commission’s executive vice-president promises more optimistic economic outlook
Next week’s expected economic outlook for the quarter from the European Commission (EC) will be more optimistic than the last one, said EC…
Pavel wins Czech presidential election
Czechs will continue to look westward – it became known over the weekend that retired NATO general Petr Pavel won the presidential election,…
War in Ukraine: Zelensky calls for faster delivery of weapons
Heavy fighting continues in eastern Ukraine, and Russia has once again shelled cities, killing three people in Kherson, Reuters writes. Ukrainian President Volodymyr…
In fighting Russia, part of society is prepared to become like it, warns social anthropologist
Nearly a year after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine we can see many Russians in Latvia still have an identity…
BNN SUMMARY OF THE WEEK: One for all. Economic foreign policy. Wage feast
Beating Russia to it, Latvia decided, in solidarity with Estonia, to pull its ambassador from Moscow this week. This is an extraordinary turning…
Week in Lithuania: Vilnius receives loan for new trolleybuses, Ukrainian citizen robbed
Linas Jegelevičius Last week, President stripped the ex-US House speaker of a state award, Lithuania lost an ECHR case over a fairy tale…
BNN ANALYSES | 22.5% of Latvia’s population at risk of poverty but people’s servants still get a raise
Opinion piece. Ilona Bērziņa, BNN While the director of Latvia’s State Chancellery Jānis Citskovskis is busy talking about looking for «middle ground» on…
