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Latvia not to send granted residence permits to Russia, Belarus, Ukraine
16.07.2020The Citizenship and Migration Affairs Office (PMLP) presently will not send the granted residence permit cards to Russia, Belarus and Ukraine as long as these countries are in the high Covid-19 risk area, said PMLP deputy chief Maira Roze, cites LETA.
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Amount of fresh milk supplied by Latvian dairy farmers down 0.4% in H1
16.07.2020The amount of fresh milk supplied by Latvian dairy farmers in the first six months of this year dropped 0.4 percent from the same period of last year to 379,320 tons, according to the information from the Latvian Agricultural Data Center.
Income of graduates of Bachelor's, college programs are by 8% higher than average in Latvia
16.07.2020Income of graduates of Bachelor's and college programs in 2018 were by 8 percent higher than average in the country and accounted for EUR 12,048 a year, according to the graduate monitoring data collected by the Education and Science Ministry in Latvia, cites LETA.
Rail Baltica receives next round of funding
16.07.2020By the 16 July 2020 vote of the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Committee, the Rail Baltica Global project in the Baltic States has been granted additional EUR 184 mln CEF financing to be invested in the Project implementation until 2024. Together with 15% national co-financing, the total investment amounts to EUR 216 mln in additional funding for the project. Together with the currently signed grant agreement contracts, Rail Baltica in the three Baltic states has thereby already secured around EUR 1.2 billion from the EU and national funds.
Lithuania to subject arrivals from 3rd countries to mandatory testing, isolation
16.07.2020Lithuania will make it mandatory for arrivals from third countries to undergo testing for COVID-19 and go into two-week isolation, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Thursday, cites LETA/BNS.
BLRT invests EUR 100 mln in Klaipeda shipyard
Over the last four years, industrial group BLRT Group has invested 100 million euros in strengthening the competitiveness of the Western Shipyard group of companies belonging to the group as well as the development of production units located in Klaipeda, informs LETA/BNS.
The economic impact of agricultural production from climate change (cocoa) in Côte d'Ivoire
On the eve of the UN climate summit, the IPCC has just published a 400-page report on climate change by making an unprecedented appeal on climate change to which the intergovernmental group urgently invites us to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees. The report indicates dramatic consequences of global warming in Africa.
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