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Latvian minister: 5% defence spending realistic goal

March 5, 2025

Latvian Economics Minister Viktors Valainis told Latvian Television on Wednesday that the idea of raising defence spending in Latvia to 5% of gross domestic product (GDP) is an attainable goal, [..]

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Electricity prices soaring in Latvia

March 5, 2025

The average price of electricity in February 2025 increased by 65% against January’s rate to EUR 151.8 per MWh, representatives of the Enefit company have told the LETA news agency. [..]

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Latvia’s anti-corruption agency ends criminal proceedings related to procurement violations

December 20, 2024

Latvia’s Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau (KNAB) has announced that after 18 months of investigations, it has decided to end criminal proceedings related to suspected violations in a large food [..]

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Latvian Parliament approves salary freeze

November 15, 2024

Latvia’s Saeima (Parliament) on Thursday approved amendments to the Law on Governance of the Capital Shares of Public Entities and Management of Capital Enterprises on final reading, providing for a [..]

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Van with illegal migrants detained in Latvia

November 1, 2024

A van designed to look like a Border Guard vehicle was detained last night in the Skaune Parish of the Kraslava Administrative District of Latvia and was found to be [..]

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Former Maxima Latvija employees convicted of demanding bribes from food manufacturer

August 13, 2024

The court has handed down suspended prison sentences and fines to former employees of the retailer Maxima Latvija for demanding and accepting bribes from a food producer and money laundering. [..]

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Swedes propose that Latvian government gives up control of LMT mobile operator

July 15, 2024

The telecommunications and technology company Tet should be split up and its telecommunications business should be sold to the mobile communications company Latvijas Mobilais Telefons (LMT), which would be owned [..]

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KNAB seeks prosecution of former acting head of Riga City Council’s department for spatial planning and mobility for offering bribe

June 27, 2024

The Corruption Prevention Bureau (KNAB) has handed over to the prosecutor’s office a criminal case in which it obtained evidence that Janis Vaivods, former acting head of the Riga City [..]

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Births in Latvia down 10.6% in January-April

June 17, 2024

Latvia recorded 4,215 births in the first four months of 2024, which is a decrease of 10.6 percent, or 502 births, compared to the same period a year ago, according [..]

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Riga’s population drops by 4,600 as influx of Ukrainian refugees slows down

June 17, 2024

As the influx of Ukrainian refugees slows down, the population of Riga decreased by 4,600 people last year, according to the Riga City Council’s public report for 2023. At the [..]