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EUROPE’S LAS VEGAS?: Eastern European women find a quick fix in Ireland. ...
RIGA - Destitute young women from Eastern Europe are risking serious danger coming to Ireland for fake marriages, arranged by Pakistanis and Africans aiming to gain EU citizenship illegally, writes Jim Cusack in the Sunday Independent, reports news agency LETA. Latvian police contacted the Guard of the Peace of Ireland last year after they received reports that young women from Latvia, who had come to Ireland for illegal marriages with men from Pakistan and a number of African countries, had in some cases suffered from violence. The Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB) established ...  Full story...
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 Jan 27, 2010 - Mistrust of politicians runs rampant, poll shows...
Mistrust of politicians runs rampant, poll shows
RIGA - The news agency LETA reports that according to a study commissioned by Eurobarometer Standard, an overwhelming majority, 95 percent, of Latvian citizens do not trust the country’s political parties. Hardly jaw dropping, this news accentuates the previously addressed topic of general mistrust among the Latvian public. The same study showed that more people trust the parliament and...
 Jan 27, 2010 - Latvia's opposition to the rescue...
Latvia's opposition to the rescue
RIGA - Nothing but the support of several opposition lawmakers helped the Latvian government avoid an international scandal, unrest in the financial markets, and delay of the next tranche of international loans. The biggest coalition member, the People’s Party, refused to vote for the mandate giving the Cabinet the authority to deal with the international lenders. There is a great risk th...
 Jan 20, 2010 - Regional security plan moves forward...
Regional security plan moves forward
RIGA - Thanks to the efforts of Poland, NATO has agreed in principle to develop formal contingency plans to defend member states Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, writes The Economist. After five years of “dithering, the alliance has made the decision to draw up defense plans for the Baltic states.” The shift comes after hard-fought negotiations in which, at the Americans’ insist...
 Jan 13, 2010 - Latvians need to reach out more...
Latvians need to reach out more
RIGA - The beginning of a new year is a time to make realistic and attainable resolutions. The year just over is bound up in a fat folder of papers, squeezed onto the shelf next to the previous year’s bundle. The first weeks of January are spent winding down after an array of seasonal feasts, when there is no better time to take a good, long look at the last twelve months and think about ...
 Jan 06, 2010 - AirBaltic president meets demands on income declar...
AirBaltic president meets demands on income declaration
RIGA - As the year-end deadline to hand in his official state income declaration to the State Revenue Service closed in, airBaltic President Bertolt Flick finally fell in line and delivered the document, by post, to the state office on Dec. 29. The State Revenue Service had been left waiting till the last minute in what seemed to be a test of whether the airline president would agree to abide b...
 Feb 03, 2010 - Latvija in brief...
The Cabinet of Ministers decided on Feb. 2 to transfer suspended State Revenue Service chief Dzintars Jakans to the office of director at the Finan...
 Feb 03, 2010 - School reform to be tested...
RIGA - The merging of institutions of higher education in Latvia is a matter of rising importance, and inevitability, as student numbers are fallin...
 Feb 03, 2010 - Latvia’s unpredictability sca...
RIGA - Latvia’s shaky economy, its unpredictable tax policy and swollen bureaucracy has made it unattractive for foreign investors. A possibl...
 Jan 27, 2010 - Latvija in brief...
Women from Eastern Europe are being paid up to 10,000 euros for bogus marriages in Ireland to mostly Muslim Asian men, reports LETA. A Pakistani ma...
 Jan 20, 2010 - Environmental protection to fo...
RIGA - The Ministry of the Environment has announced that in 2010 it plans to conduct various activities to inform society on urgent environmental ...
 Jan 20, 2010 - Latvija in brief...
The ruling coalition parties agreed on Jan. 18 that suspended State Revenue Service Director General Dzintars Jakans will be transferred via a rota...
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RIGA - The new agreements with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Commission (EC) outline tough deadlines and stringent conditi...
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