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Latvian government minister: Health care, defence cannot be kept separate

May 29, 2025

Latvian Health Minister Hosam Abu Meri has declared that healthcare and defence are not separate in that it is impossible to make do without hospitals, medicines and physicians during wartime. [..]

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United List asking prime minister to explain government’s actions and decisions on airBaltic

September 18, 2024

Opposition party the United List is asking Prime Minister Evika Silina (New Unity) to explain the government’s actions and decisions on the national airline airBaltic, plans to recover taxpayers’ money [..]

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Finance Latvia Association does not support the proposed windfall tax on banks

September 13, 2024

Finance Latvia Association does not support the proposed windfall tax on banks, as the association’s representatives informed LETA. However, while respecting the right of the state to set taxes and [..]

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Transport Minister’s communication on airBaltic has been complete “failure” – president

September 4, 2024

The communication of Transport Minister Kaspars Briskens (Progressives) on the issue of the Latvian national airline airBaltic has absolutely “failed”, Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics said at a press conference after [..]

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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 [..]