Week in Lithuania: Lithuania adopts 2022 budget, registers its first child death from Covid-19
Last week, the top news stories in Lithuania were the adoption of the 2022 state budget, registering, the first child death from Covid-19…
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Bank of Latvia downgrades country’s economic growth outlooks
Latvia’s central bank has downgraded the GDP growth outlook for 2021 from 5.3% to 4.6%. At the same time, the bank has downgraded…
EU summit focuses of energy resource issues and prices
With many EU countries feeling the pressure of high energy prices and being weary of what the future holds for energy under the…
Name of businessman who may have offered Riga City Council a bribe leaked
Latvia’s Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau (KNAB) has requested criminal prosecution of one Igors Trubko for alleged bribery attempt of Riga City Council’s…
Latest Covid-19 cases in Baltics. 841 in Latvia, 1 558 in Lithuania, 603 in Estonia
A total of 841 new Covid-19 infection cases were found in Latvia in the last 24 hours. 453 of the patients were either…
BNN ANALYSES | A great shortage of pastors. What about the ones not vaccinated for Covid-19?
A church service is not the same as a concert of other type of entertainment. This is why the Ministry of Justice hopes…
Finland reaches cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 9%
As the Nordic countries are actively seeking to reduce their air pollution with emissions of gases harmful to the climate, Finland has in…
Latvian regional ministry halts legislative draft on year-round entry fee to Jurmala
Latvia’s Ministry of Environment Protection and Regional Development Minister Artūrs Toms Plešs signed the order on the halting of Jurmala City Council’s regulations…
Bouncy castle accident in Australia takes lives of schoolchildren
In Australia, five children have died, when during a school event, a bouncy castle was blown into the air by a gust of…
