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Six private homes to be demolished for construction of Rail Baltica railroad sections at Riga Airport and Central Station

2019-08-23
LETA/TBT Staff

RIGA - Six private houses will be demolished for construction of the Rail Baltica railroad sections at the Riga Central Station and Riga International Airport, as Rita Voronkova from Eiropas Dzelzcela Linijas, the company implementing the Rail Baltica project in Latvia, told L...

Not possible to be confident that violations in LU rector elections impacted the outcome - State Chancellery | Welfare Ministry points at duties of local governments in providing assistance to refugees | Harmony and GKR sign coalition agreement after reaching compromise | If city council fails to elect new Riga mayor, National Alliance ready to nominate own candidate | CSDD promises to introduce new regulations for electric scooters next year | India's Vice President Venkaiah Naidu to visit Latvia | Zeps still has not persuaded JKP and Unity to endorse him as candidate for Riga mayor | Problems with University of Latvia rector's election signal necessity for new legislation - Levits | First of all, medical personnel's salaries must increase, all other promises are of secondary importance - Vinkele | Latvia's 2020 budget will be its largest yet - PM Karins | Drafting of state budget will be crucial for coalition – Reizniece-Ozola | Saeima committee might call on parliament to sack National Electronic Mass Media Council - Kaimins | Two international legal offices do not see any violations in procedure electing LU rector | Two large-scale international military exercises to be held in Latvia in the autumn | President will be active in both domestic politics and foreign policy - Teikmanis | Defense Ministry and banks play out crisis scenario in an exercise

EUR 144 million needed to continue health care reform next year

RIGA – EUR 144 million are needed to continue the health care reform next year, according to the Finance Ministry’s report on the budget expenditure at the disposal of LETA. The biggest funding or EUR 58.9 million is necessary for the reforms related with improving ...

Around 350 people take part in protest demo in Dundaga

RIGA, Aug 22 (LETA) - Around 350 residents of the western Latvian municipalities of Dundaga and Kolka took part in a demonstration staged on Thursday in protest to the Dundaga regional council’s management style and to demand Aldis Pinkens’ reinstatement as head of the Kolka municipal...

Six private homes to be demolished for construction of Rail Baltica railroad sections at Riga Airport and Central Station

EUR 144 million needed to continue health care reform next year

Around 350 people take part in protest demo in Dundaga

Bordans claims attempts to squeeze New Conservative Party out of government

KNAB detains Ogre regional council chair Egils Helmanis for fraud

Not possible to be confident that violations in LU rector elections impacted the outcome - State Chancellery

Welfare Ministry points at duties of local governments in providing assistance to refugees

Harmony and GKR sign coalition agreement after reaching compromise

If city council fails to elect new Riga mayor, National Alliance ready to nominate own candidate

CSDD promises to introduce new regulations for electric scooters next year

India's Vice President Venkaiah Naidu to visit Latvia

Zeps still has not persuaded JKP and Unity to endorse him as candidate for Riga mayor

Problems with University of Latvia rector's election signal necessity for new legislation - Levits

First of all, medical personnel's salaries must increase, all other promises are of secondary importance - Vinkele

Latvia's 2020 budget will be its largest yet - PM Karins

Drafting of state budget will be crucial for coalition – Reizniece-Ozola

Saeima committee might call on parliament to sack National Electronic Mass Media Council - Kaimins

Two international legal offices do not see any violations in procedure electing LU rector

Two large-scale international military exercises to be held in Latvia in the autumn