BNN SUMMARY OF THE WEEK: Everyone’s on strike. Self-harm reform. «Green scrap»
Latvia’s government and its ministers hoped to decorate their warm-up period with proud stories of success. Unfortunately for them, this plan backfired and…
Category: Social
Self-employed foreigners in Lithuania will have to know national language
The Seimas of Lithuania is considering amendments to the Law on the State Language, which will stipulate that the self-employed must also be…
Rights for dignified death should be a fundamental part of Latvian medicine
During a discussion titled Rights for Dignified Death organised on Wednesday, the 22nd of March, Riga Eastern Clinical University Hospital (RAKUS) Palliative Care…
Healthcare experts report surge of tuberculosis cases after Covid-19 pandemic
After the Covid-19 pandemic there has been a surge of tuberculosis cases in Latvia, said representative of the Centre for Disease Prevention and…
BNN ANALYSES | Unveiled tax reform proposals ignite firestorm in Lithuania
Linas Jegelevičius Lithuania’s Finance Ministry finally unveiled a tax reform earlier this week, triggering an avalanche of backlash and indignation from tax experts,…
Tallinn City Council opposes renaming of Russian-language schools
Representatives of the Isamaa party in the Tallinn City Council proposed removing the word «Russian» from the names of five high schools in…
Lithuanians show more confidence in EU and NATO
The latest Eurobarometer survey has shown that the trust of Lithuanians in NATO and the European Union has increased, and Lithuanian residents also…
Every fifth Latvian resident confident money laundering does not affect them
Every fifth Latvian resident believes they are not affected by companies that don’t pay taxes or pay «envelope wages» to their employees, according…
Renault: The future is electric, internal combustion engines dies out
While the German government is trying to improve the future prospects of internal combustion engines, the head of the car manufacturing company Renault…
