Last year Latvia was one of the few EU member states that had actually increased their import/export volumes with Russia, said Saeima deputy from the Progressive Party (PRO) Andris Sprūds in an interview to Kārtības rullis.
The politician said that, aside from Latvia, two other EU member states – Bulgaria and Slovenia – had increased export volumes in Russia’s direction.
Sprūds stressed that business is still alive despite the existing geopolitical situation.
“In the business side of things there is even growth observed. The Ministry of Economics, which is under the National Alliance (NA), should think and act to make sure we don’t deal with sanctioned oligarchs or increase trade volumes with the aggressor,” said Sprūds,
adding that he had mentioned before that “money still doesn’t smell in Latvian-Russian relations”.
NA Saeima deputy Rihards Kols said PRO as a party has all opportunities to submit a legislative draft to close down the Latvian-Russian border. “Suggest closing the border and provide explanations why this should be done. But you [Progressive party] won’t do it, letting someone else, such as the EC, do it instead,” said Kols.
Just recently the EU has adopted a new package of sanctions against Moscow for invading Ukraine.
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