Greek conservatives convincingly win repeated elections
The center-right party New Democracy succeeded in the repeated election, gaining a majority in the parliament, and Kyriakos Mitsotakis will be prime minister…
Category: Politics
Riga’s mayor may have wasted more than 14 000 euros on illegal business trips
Answers provided by Riga City Council’s Central Administration to questions asked by For Latvia’s Development faction leader Viesturs Zeps about Riga Mayor Mārtiņš…
BNN ANALYSES: Irish president urging to stay out of NATO and bringing up Lithuania and Latvia stirs controversy
Linas Jegelevičius The controversial remarks of the Irish president Michael D. Higgins, on the NATO membership, contrasting Ireland and Latvia and Lithuania were…
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…
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…
