The heads of the Nordic and Baltic central banks signed an agreement last week on the principles for sharing information and providing emergency liquidity assistance with regard to cross-border ...

U.S. Food and Drug Administration ordered retailers in the New York state to halt sale of several fish products of the "Latis" brand, Freecity.lv reports. The products – fish, crustacean and shellfish ...

The new Directive on self-employed workers and assisting spouses (Directive 2010/41/EU) repeals and replaces an earlier law (Directive 86/613/EEC) and improves the social protection rights of millions ...

The Baltic insurance market, unlike markets in other CEE countries, has not treated the leading international insurance groups very well. And, the reverse applies, as well: insurers finding success in ...

A Latvian personal bankruptcy law passed by parliament on July 26 won't hurt Nordic lenders because provisions set aside for bad loans will cover the impact of the bill, according to Nordea Bank.

Igor Akhremov, member of the criminal gang Vilnius Brigade and killer of journalist Vitas Lingys has been released on parole yesterday.

Esther Sans, the daughter of political refugees from Latvia, went off to kindergarten five decades ago in Ohio barely knowing any English – but now she knows better than anyone how to power the human ...

Question: I have a lot of reasons to change name and surname in latvia. Is it possible? Answer: According to the Law on the change of a given name, surname and nationality record, a person who is a ...

1 July, councilmen from the recently-elected Riga City Council voted in Nils Usakovs (Harmony Center) as Riga mayor. 37 councilmen voted for Usakovs, whilst 21 city councilmen voted for the other ...

The Latvian State Police has published on its website a list of those killed in the collapse of the Maxima shopping center near Zolitūde in Riga. The list consists of 54 victims, there are no children ...

Even though local freight increased this year by 11.7% (11.5 million tonnes were transported), yet international cargo volumes fell by 9% (24 million tonnes were transported). Saulius Stasiunas, ...

On November 21.11.2013 Maxima shopping center roof collapsed in Riga, Latvia causing deaths and international news. While the rescue work and cleaning of the site is still ongoing, the causes of the ...