organization:latvian government

KVV group will sue Latvia in international court about ’’Liepājas metalurgs’’

Ukranian KVV group invested 35million euro in Latvias biggest metallurgy factory, which had huge financial problems, but now they argue that Latvian government is trying to push them out. Although KVV group was the only one investor that was ready to try saving ’’Liepājas metalurgs’’.
▻http://leta.lv/home/important/A5089837-889F-415C-BCB3-96FB3C43A013
Rīga, 15.aug., LETA. “KVV Group” vērsīsies starptautiskajā tiesā ar pretenzijām saistībā ar metalurģijas uzņēmumam “KVV Liepājas metalurgs” pieteikto maksātnespēju, aģentūru LETA informēja “KVV Group” preses sekretāre Nataļja Napadovskaja.

#Latvia #Latvija #Liepajas_metalurgs #KVVgroup #Liepāja

Next year budget’s fiscal space is 70million

The Latvian government has informed that next year budget’s fiscal space is 70 million euro. Prime minister Māris Kučinskis added that additional financing for education (27 million) and health care (35 million) is not included in this amount of money.
Now the ministries will have to decide which will be the priorities and which policies should receive more money.

▻http://leta.lv/home/important/209C3CF8-F2C6-41DC-84F3-4AF024F85B28
Nākamā gada budžeta fiskālā telpa - 70 miljoni eiro; plāno aizvietot solidaritātes nodokli
Rīga, 9.aug., LETA. Nākamā gada budžeta fiskālā telpa ir 70 miljoni, tāpat nākamā gada budžeta ietvaros iecerēts pārskatīt uzņēmēju iepriekš kritizēto solidaritātes nodokli, šodien pēc valdības sēdes žurnālistiem sacīja Ministru prezidents Māris Kučinskis (ZZS).

#Latvia #Latvija #Budget_2017 #fiscal_space #economics

Dmitry Trenin: Latvia has the closest economic relations with Russia among Baltic States :: The Baltic Course | Baltic States news & analytics

▻http://www.baltic-course.com/eng/direct_speech/?doc=85290

Latvian-Russian relations can develop successfully if the Latvian government is interested in this, Carnegie Moscow Center Director Dmitry Trenin points out in an interview with LETA.

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The fact that Latvia has the closest economic relations with Russia among all Baltic States is an important precondition for successful development of mutual relations. Moreover, Russian residents feel much more comfortable in Riga than in Tallinn or Vilnius. Riga is a large and historically international city. It is not a capital of small province, it is a large regional center, points out Trenin.

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Latvia plans restrictions on land ownership
▻http://farmlandgrab.org/post/view/21842

The Latvian government is planning tougher restrictions on selling land, which may affect foreign investors, writes news2biz LATVIA.

Running extended articles about foreigners who buy up Latvian land for pennies, the Latvian press has, in a slightly xenophobic manner, already suggested that the new regulations aim to cut sales to foreigners.

However, the Ministry of Agriculture maintains that the regulations are not aimed at maintaining the national purity of the Latvian countryside and aim to ensure that Latvian agricultural land and forests are used productively.

#terres #Lettonie

Latvia’s ‘aliens’ | minorities in focus
►http://minorityrights.wordpress.com/2012/09/28/latvias-aliens

Latvia’s citizenship policy, which assigns almost a third of Latvian Russians non-citizen/alien status, prohibits non-citizens from taking part in many aspects of society, such as seeking employment, travelling abroad, or voting during national elections. Even though the Latvian government ratified the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities on 6 June 2005, there is still a considerable part of the Russian population who cannot freely participate in Latvian economic, political and cultural life.

[...]Being born into a Russian family from Latvia myself, I have been granted citizenship through my father, whereas my mother was a non-citizen until 2006. My uncle and my grandmother are still non-citizens. I asked my grandmother how it feels.

‘It is heartbreaking and unfair. It is like you have been born into a family and they don’t accept you as their child. The state, the government, and society is the family, and we, non-citizens, are unwanted and alienated children.’

#apatridie #Lettonie #Russie #minorité #discrimination