Latvian female tennis players Alyona Ostapenko and Anastasija Sevastova could not pass the first stage of the tournament of the Olympics and later lost doubles as well. This means their participation in the Olympics is over. Ostapenko and Sevastova failed to pass the first stage of doubles at the TokyoContinue Reading
A total of 44 new COVID-19 cases were uncovered in Latvia in the last 24 hours, increasing the total number of confirmed cases to 138 344 since spring 2020. The latest public data for Estonia reports 132 180 confirmed coronavirus patients. 121 new patients were registered in the past day.Continue Reading
Latvia must earmark budget funds to strengthen its eastern border, President Egils Levits said in an interview with Riga TV24 channel on Wednesday. Commenting on the Baltic presidents’ stance on eastern neighbors – Belarus and Russia, Levits said that Belarus is currently using migrants as a weapon against Lithuania, whichContinue Reading
In Latvia, from the next school year, the lowest rate of the monthly salary for general education teachers will be raised to 830 euros and for pre-school teachers to 872 euros, the Latvian government has decided. On Tuesday, July 6, the Latvian Cabinet of Ministers adopted the proposal to raiseContinue Reading
Opposition parties allied with the Greens and Farmers Union (ZZS), and Latvia’s Regional Alliance (LRA) did the best out of municipal elections held across most of Latvia June 5, though provisional results show no single party really dominated the poll. According to early results from the Central Elections Commission (CVK),Continue Reading
Although children infected with Covid-19 usually suffer mild to moderate symptoms, it is better to avoid such a scenario, as there are often after effects, said pediatrician Dana Isarova, acting head of the Infection Control Service at the Children’s Clinical University Hospital. Isarova said that in more severe cases, childrenContinue Reading
The United States’ leadership in NATO is important to Latvia, Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics (New Unity) told US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on Wednesday. As LETA was told at the Foreign Ministry, the foreign ministers of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia met with Blinken during a meeting of NATO foreignContinue Reading
Latvia still has much to do in order to submit its application for the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility to the European Commission, said European Commission vice president Valdis Dombrovskis (New Unity). “Negotiations among Latvia’s representations and responsible European Commission’s services have launched. The first observation is that plan meetsContinue Reading
Estonia and Latvia have shared renewables targets. Latvia and Estonia both want to achieve full energy independence from Russia, said Latvian President Egils Levits after the meeting with Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid. In four years from now, in 2025, the Baltic power grids will be synchronized with Western Europe, heContinue Reading
“We will do everything from our side to preserve that bubble, and we have already submitted proposals to both the Latvians and Estonians to renounce the 16 rate and move on to the 25 rate for that bubble to be preserved, all the more so, discussion on similar rate areContinue Reading