Population census: 76% of Estonia’s population speaks a foreign language
Census data show that an estimated 76% of Estonia’s population speaks a foreign language. While 10 years ago the most widely spoken foreign…
Category: Social
Employment in Latvia at 64.6% in Q3, unemployment at 6.9%
The Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia (CSP) reports that in Q3 2022 there were 899.5 thousand employed people in the country. This is…
Latvian government approves ending so-called receipt lottery
The report from the Ministry of Finance the government in Latvia reviewed on Tuesday, 15 November, proposes ending the so-called receipt lottery in…
Estonian legistation proposes to impose state language level on food couriers
The Ministry of Education and Research of Estonia submitted the bill of legislative amendments to the Language Act and the Public Transport Act….
Every second Latvian resident suffers from depressed mood
According to results of a survey by SKDS, only 3% of interviewed residents in Latvia are happy about days becoming shorter. Every second…
Heating tariffs to change for fifth time in Riga this year
28 November will mark the coming into force of a new tariff of Rīgas siltums JSC (RS). This new tariff will be 183.86…
Gas stores at Latvia’s Inčukalns storage facility reaches 14.34 TWh
For the first time in history Inčukalns underground gas storage facility (PGK) has continued pumping natural gas after the start of the natural…
Latvia removes all 69 objects glorifying the Soviet union; municipalities remove 55 more
According to information from Latvian municipalities, all 69 objects believed to glorify the Soviet union have been removed from the country’s territory within…
BNN summary of the week: Price hike in Latvia. Coalition under construction. Russians leave Kherson
This week passed in Latvia largely with expectations for continued coalition negotiations. The process remains slow, but both the National Alliance and New…
