Latvian president: the “iron curtain” has dropped on the border in Zilupe
“Currently there is “an iron curtain” on the border near Zilupe,” said Latvian President Egils Levits, speaking to Saeima deputies at the parliament’s…
Category: Politics
Latvian parties agree state companies should release shares on the exchange
Political parties New Unity (JV), Union of Greens and Farmers (ZZS) and Progressive party agree that it is necessary to release shares of…
OPINION | Latvian PM is the architect of his own government’s collapse
Ilona Bērziņa, BNN Latvian Prime Minister Krišjānis Kariņš’s insistence in continuing coalition expansion talks with the Union of Greens and Farmers (ZZS) and…
Latvian Swedbank to pay 3.4 million dollars over Crimean sanction violation
US Department of Finance Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) has announced a settlement deal with Latvian Swedbank in relation to a violation…
Latvian PM pins the blame for failed Covid-19 vaccine procurement on ex-minister of health
The viewing of the criminal case involving the now ex-Minister of Health Ilze Viņķele will be continued by Riga City Vidzeme Suburb Court…
Still no clarity about the future of potential coalition expansion negotiations in Latvia
Political parties Combined List (AS) and National Alliance (NA) are not in a hurry to announce whether or not they have plans to…
President of Ireland urged “not to be like Lithuania and Latvia”
Irish President Michael Higgins, emphasizing the neutrality of his country, compared Ireland with the Baltic states, and indicated that dangerous political turns should…
Moldova bans pro-Russian party
Moldova’s Constitutional Court has banned a pro-Kremlin party a few weeks after the party’s leader was placed on the European Union (EU) sanctions…
Latvian doctors generally satisfied with government’s decision to provide additional funding
Latvian Trade Union of Health and Social Care Workers (LVSADA) and Latvian Hospital Society (LSB) are satisfied with the decision from the government…
