Latvia - On 7 April 2020, the Latvian Cabinet approved the extension of the posting of four civilian experts – Raimonds Deičmanis, Eva Ikauniece, Raimonds Koptenkovs and Oskars Kastēns ...
Latvia - The government coalition has agreed to move upcoming snap municipal elections in Rīga to September 5, 2020, politicians told the press after the weekly coalition cooperation me...
Latvia - Next week the government will most likely extend the state of emergency, leading to more people who will need assistance in returning to Latvia and possibly additional repatria...
Latvia - Latvia's parliament, the Saeima, approved Jānis Vitenbergs (KPV.LV party) as the new Minister of Economics on April 2....
Latvia - Following the lead of the cabinet and other state institutions, the Latvian parliament or Saeima enters a new era April 2 when it conducts its first ever sitting by video confe...
Latvia - Latvia offered words of encouragement to Ukraine April 4 after the Ukrainian parliament passed a major reform package in its first reading....
Latvia - Rīgas municipal temporary administrative director Edvīns Balševics suspended the city's executive director Juris Radzevičs (Honor to Serve Riga) due to irresponsible actions du...
Latvia - Latvian State President Egls Levits had a telephone call with his Belarusian counterpart, Alexander Lukashenko March in which the pair discussed a future visit of the authorita...
Latvia - Latvia lined up with a longlist of other states March 23 to condemn elections held in the occupied Georgian territory of Abkhazia as illegitimate....
Latvia - After Saeima parliamentary member Artuss Kaimiņš announced that he had tested positive for the Covid-19 novel coronavirus, the Saeima Press Service announced on March 21 that a...
Latvia - Jurijs Perevoščikovs, head of the Infectious Disease Risk Analysis and Prevention Department at the Disease Prevention and Control Center (SPKC), told members of the press Marc...
Latvia - Independent Saeima deputy Artuss Kaimiņš confirmed March 21 that he has tested positive for coronavirus....
Latvia - Latvia's parliament, the Saeima, on March 20 gave rapid approval to the government's latest emergency measures at an extraordinary sitting....
Latvia - On March 17 the Latvian cabinet supported the Environment Ministry initiative to postpone the Rīga extraordinary municipal elections to June 6....