Review of next year’s Latvian state budget enters the final stage
On Wednesday, the Saeima’s Budget and Finance (Tax) Committee supported the draft law on the 2026 state budget and the medium-term budget framework…
Secret deadlines and rising costs: Transport Ministry explains the Rail Baltica chaos
The Ministry of Transport (MoT) has prepared a restricted-access report on the construction schedule for the first phase of the Rail Baltica railway…
Putin’s policy plan – Russification and the fight against imaginary neo-Nazis
A document signed by Russian dictator Vladimir Putin says that the status of the Russian language and Russian identity must be strengthened in…
More than 110 million euros in losses in Latvia: heavy rainfall and frost have destroyed crops
By the end of the state of emergency on the 4th of November, farmers had submitted information on 95,295 hectares affected by this…
EU court: Member States must recognize same-sex marriages concluded in another bloc’s country
The European Union’s top court has ruled that if a same-sex couple’s marriage is legally recognized in the country where it took place,…
Wintery weather expected mid-week in Latvia
Wednesday will be cloudy with occasional clear spells. From the afternoon, snow is expected in the southeastern regions, increasing snow cover by 4–6…
How the Kremlin is driving Ukrainians to betray their country: money and fear
A court hearing is taking place in Kyiv, where two young Ukrainians – 19-year-old Olena and 22-year-old Bohdan – see each other in…
Number of foreign workers in Lithuania has increased twentyfold in six years
The latest statistics show that approximately 150,000 third-country nationals and approximately 17,000 citizens of other European Union countries are currently working in Lithuania,…
Lithuania reports: smuggling balloons deliberately directed toward Latvia, several people detained
Several Lithuanian citizens were detained in Latvia over the past 24 hours after arriving to collect cigarette smuggling shipments delivered by meteorological balloons…
