RIGA - Latvian Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis (Unity) said he is not happy with how the European Central Bank (ECB) benchmarks against troubled eurozone countries when calculating inflation and long-term interest rate criteria in the Maastricht Treaty, which makes it harder for Latvia to qualify for euro membership, reports LETA. “This is clearly ‘gerrymandering’ and we are not very happy about it,” the prime minister said in an interview with Dow Jones Newswires on March 26.Latvia hopes to adopt the euro in January 2014, and is struggling to reduce its in...
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