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Lithuania's Nauseda calls for promoting historic memory, language, resisting temptations

VILNIUS – State institutions should pay more attention to the promotion of historic memory, culture and the Lithuanian language, Lithuania...

Lithuania's Nauseda hopes for socially-focused budget, welcomes rhetoric change

VILNIUS – As political parties in Lithuania pay more attention to the idea of a welfare state, one can expect a more socially-focused budg...

Estonian parlt committee members to meet with European counterparts in Helsinki

TALLINN - Members of the foreign affairs committee and national defense committee of the Estonian parliament are taking part in a Common Fo...

Lithuanian parlt speaker to discuss Russia's disinformation with Nordic counterparts

VILNIUS – Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Viktoras Pranckietis is leaving for Tallinn on Monday to attend a conference of the speakers of...

Bill Clinton salutes Estonia on 25th anniversary of Russian troop withdrawal

TALLINN - The 42nd president of the United States, Bill Clinton, has sent a greeting to Estonia on the 25th anniversary of the final withdr...

Lithuania's Nauseda gets Zelensky's assurances on European integration

VILNIUS – Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda met with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky in Warsaw on Sunday and was assured b...

Estonian minister gets acquainted with Latvia's experience in demographic affairs

TALLINN - Estonian Minister of Population Riina Solman, who was on a visit to Latvia on Friday, met with Imants Paradnieks, demographic aff...

Burovs elected new Riga mayor

RIGA - The Riga City Council at an extraordinary meeting yesterday elected Olegs Burovs (Honor to Serve Riga, GKR), currently the acting Riga ma…

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

RIGA – Local governments play a significant role in providing assistance to refugees, said Welfare Ministry’s representative Imants ...

Estonian president: Martin Helme not suited to be member of govt

TALLINN - President Kersti Kaljulaid, who met with Prime Minister Juri Ratas on Monday evening, described the attempt made last week to dismiss…

Lithuanian president goes to Estonia to discuss security, energy

VILNIUS - Gitanas Nauseda is leaving on Tuesday for his first visit as Lithuanian president to Estonia to discuss security, energ...

Companies included in general government sector may not operate with losses – Reirs

RIGA – It is planned to adopt regulations that companies that in line with the EU criteria should be included in the general government se...

Client guarantees to PNB Banka clients to begin to be paid out from August 22

RIGA - Client guarantees of up to EUR 100,000 will be paid out to the clients of the now suspended PNB Banka from August 22, Financial Capital a…

In case of no-deal Brexit, Latvia's payments into EU budget would increase by EUR 23.27 million

RIGA - In case of a no-deal Brexit, Latvia's payments into the European Union budget could increase by about EUR 23.27 million, according to...

PNB Banka customers to be paid approximately EUR 297 million in guaranteed compensation payments - FCMC

RIGA - Following the European Central Bank's decision to shut down PNB Banka, PNB Banka's guaranteed compensation payments will amount t...

Järvenpää Art Museum is bringing the art classics of the Finnish Golden Age to Tallinn

On Thursday, 15 August at 4 pm, the exhibition The Visit. Eero Järnefelt and Venny Soldan-Brofeldt will op...

Estonian Employers' Confederation: Pay increase for teachers must continue

TALLINN - Salary increase for teachers must continue, as motivated teachers are the key component in maintaining the quality of education in Est…

When dealing with problems associated with lack of medics, we must look at keeping residents in Latvia - ombudsman

RIGA - In an interview on the LNT television channel this morning, Ombudsman Juris Jansons said that approximately half of the country's you...