Latvia plans minimum wage increase – proposed amount falls short of initial calculations
After the National Tripartite Cooperation Council failed to reach an agreement on raising Latvia’s minimum wage to 835 euros, the Ministry of Welfare…
Can Latvia still afford Rail Baltica? Latvian Transport Minister warns current approach is no longer sustainable
Latvia’s next government will have to assess whether and how the country can afford to continue implementing the Rail Baltica railway project when…
Not in parliament, but at an undisclosed location – Kulbergs gathers United List MPs ahead of Latvia’s coalition talks
Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs of the United List (AS) will meet MPs elected to the next Saeima from his political alliance at an…
Tight presidential race ends in Brazil – Lula wins as Bolsonaro plans legal challenge
Brazil’s incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has won Sunday’s presidential election runoff, according to the final election results.With all votes counted,…
New week in Latvia to begin with rain and strong winds
Monday will be mostly cloudy, with only occasional sunny spells. A band of precipitation will move across Latvia from the west, bringing rain…
Austria again expells Russian diplomats
On the 23rd of October, the Austrian Foreign Ministry announced that it would expel four Russian diplomats based in Vienna for engaging in…
PHP: what it is and why everyone is fixing it now
The vulnerabilities were discovered in PHP, a programming language that has been widely used globally for website development since the early 2000s.
From football stadium to modern urban district – future of Riga’s Skonto site begins to take shape
Estonian real estate developer Invego has reached an agreement to acquire the property housing Riga’s Skonto football stadium, with plans to transform the…
Why is Kulbergs in no hurry to form a government? Rajevskis explains what lies behind the prolonged pause
This weekend, it became known that negotiations on forming Latvia’s new government will begin on the 28th of October, three weeks after President…
