Baltic States: News & AnalyticsAnalytics, EU – Baltic States, Baltic States – CIS, Legislation
Latvia retained EU's biggest decrease in retail trade turnover in May 2009
03.07.2009.Retail trade turnover in Latvia in May 2009 decreased by 26.4% in comparison with May 2008, which is the biggest decrease in the European Union, according to the EU statistical office Eurostat report released today. Decrease in Lithuania was 19.9%.
Keyword tags: Analytics, EU – Baltic States, Retail
03.07.2009.Number of prison inmates in Latvia growing; prisons may run out of money by end-year 2009
03.07.2009.Petitions against reduced parental leave allowance submitted at Constitutional Court in Latvia
03.07.2009.Number of indigent residents in Latvia expected to reach 60,000 in 2010
03.07.2009.Revenue Service wants six persons prosecuted for smuggling 400 tons of garlic in Latvia
03.07.2009.Kampars: Commission's decision to allocate loan to Latvia is a sign of government's determination to implement reforms
03.07.2009.Ainars Slesers becomes Riga Port's chairman of the board
02.07.2009.EC recommends Latvia curb budget deficit to 3% of GDP by 2012 and supports allocation of second part of loan
Baltic States: EconomyTransport, Markets and Companies, Energy, Real Estate, Technology, Tourism
Competition for Passanger Train board chairperson announced in Latvia
03.07.2009.A competition for the vacant Pasazieru vilciens (Passanger Train) board chairperson position has been announced, the government's official newspaper Latvijas Vestnesis reports.
Keyword tags: Latvia, Railways, Transport
03.07.2009.Olerex tripled its profits in 2008
03.07.2009.Andrus Aljas: Estonian Air will not be able to survive with a loss for long
03.07.2009.Registration of vehicles in Estonia fell by 63% in June y-o-y
03.07.2009.Delfi earned a loss of 36 mln kroons in 2008
03.07.2009.Eesti Energia to pay 324 mln kroons of dividends to the State
03.07.2009.Gerhards: passenger trains must be integrated in Riga public transport system
03.07.2009.Maiga Dzervite selected to head Latvian Post
Baltic States: Finances & InvestmentsFinancial Services, Investments, Buy / Sell Business
Simonyte being appointed finance minister of Lithuania
03.07.2009.President of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus approved the candidacy of the Finance Deputy Minister Ingrida Simonyte for the post of the finance minister. After the Friday meeting of the president with Simonyte, his spokesperson informed that the decree on the appointment of the new finance minister would be signed on Friday afternoon.
Keyword tags: Financial Services, Legislation, Lithuania
03.07.2009.PM of Luxembourg: Estonia might accede to the euro in 2-3 years
02.07.2009.Unemployment insurance tax in Estonia is raised to 4.2%
02.07.2009.If becomes leading insurance company in Baltics
02.07.2009.Latvia could receive World Bank loan by end of 2009
02.07.2009.Large-scale borrowing not likely to resume anytime soon in Latvia
02.07.2009.Kubilius: there are no painless lines in reduction of expenditures in Lithuania
02.07.2009.Aizkraukles banka repays EUR 85 mln syndicated loan
Education and ScienceEducation and Science, Round Table, Economic History, Book review
Latvian Education Ministry offers to increase student/teacher proportion so teachers could be paid LVL 250 per shift
01.07.2009.Latvian Ministry of Education and Science proposes to increase the teacher/students proportion so that teachers' salaries do not have to be reduced to under LVL 250 per shift, as Minister of Education and Science Tatjana Koke (Union of Greens and Farmers) said after a meeting with Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis (New Era) today, informs LETA.
Keyword tags: Education and Science, Financial Services, Latvia
26.06.2009.Retirement-age teachers are quitting in Latvia
16.06.2009.Teachers' salaries in Latvia to be cut by half as of September
04.06.2009.Lithuanian Study Centre to be established in Jagiellonian University of Krakow
01.06.2009.Latvian universities compete to attract future students
29.05.2009.Police Academy could be liquidated in Riga
28.05.2009.Teachers' salaries to be cut 20% in Latvia
22.05.2009.Koke informed Repse at end-March that 8000-9000 teachers could lose their jobs
Baltic States: OpinionInterview
Towards common European energy market
30.11.2007.On 1 July 2007, Lithuania and Latvia have announced a program for the full liberalization of their energy markets. Estonia has negotiated with the EU the conditions concerning its open energy market. The BC discussed this and other important issues in development of the Baltic energy markets with the heads of the national energy utilities in the three Baltic states: Sandor Liive, Board Chairman of the Eesti Energia; Karlis Mikelsons, Board Chairman of Latvenergo; and Rymantas Juozaitis, Director General of Lietuvos Energija.
Keyword tags: Energy, Interview, The Baltic Course No. 27
30.11.2007.Environment-friendly fuel
19.11.2007.Belarus acknowledged by international ratings agencies
08.11.2007.Gediminas Kirkilas: Income tax in Lithuania might be lowered to 20 per cent
Round TableRound Table
Trade Unions in Latvia: problems and perspectives
01.12.2008.Arranging and convening round tables on contemporary EU-Baltics issues have become a tradition between our Baltic Course magazine and the Baltic International Academy in Riga, Latvia. The recent one, which took place on 21 November this year, was devoted to an interesting and urgent socio-political problem, i.e. the role, functions and developmental perspectives for the trade unions in the Baltics and in Latvia, in particular. A short resume of the issues under discussion at the round-table is presented below.
Keyword tags: Forum, Latvia, Round Table
22.11.2008.Labour unions in the context of the EU policies: single market & social guarantees
25.10.2008.Adamkus: it’s high time to undertake the reform of teacher training system
27.03.2008.Innovation is a key factor to determine productivity growth
14.11.2007.High Education Export: problems and perspectives
14.11.2007.Looking for possibilities rather than causes
14.11.2007.Russians are willing to get European education
14.11.2007.Global higher education challenges: what does it bring to Latvia?
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World Lithuanians' economy forum to begin in Vilnius
02.07.2009.On Thursday, July 2 two-day World Lithuanians' economy forum (PLEF) begins in the Presidential Palace in Vilnius. It is patronized by President Valdas Adamkus.
Keyword tags: Economics, Forum, Investments, Lithuania, Markets and Companies
29.06.2009.17th European Biomass Conference & Exhibition started
12.06.2009.Latvian and Lithuanian premiers: Baltic countries' tax systems need to be better coordinated
03.06.2009.Riga to host Baltic Economic Forum on June 12
29.05.2009.Internet forum for foreign tourists who visit Riga is opened
26.05.2009.Parex banka’s Council approves the Bank’s annual report for 2008
22.05.2009.Privatisation Agency has made an investment into Parex banka’s capital
21.05.2009.Lithuania-China forum established in Lithuania
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