Tuesday, April 14, 2026

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“Latvenergo” and LVM cannot be “protected” in the long term with a referendum

With the Ministry of Finance coming forward with the idea to abolish the legal prohibition on privatizing “Latvenergo” and “Latvijas Valsts meži”, the issue of organizing a referendum to prevent the privatization of these companies is again being raised. In the heat of debate, some even mistakenly recall that this question was once decided by a popular vote. However, claims that the people have already prohibited the privatization of “Latvenergo” and that therefore nothing like this is any longer […]

We don’t know how to relax or we can’t afford to

Whatever it may be, it is summer and this is vacation time, a period to switch off from work and recharge for the next stage. However, we do not know how to do this or cannot afford it, according to a study. The majority, or 86% of employees in Latvia, admit that during their vacation they answer phone calls related to work, and 37% do this always, if […]

In Latvia the green lifestyle exists only on social networks – in Europe it brings in billions

“Young people only talk about a green lifestyle on social media; we don’t see them in our store,” says Eco Baltia Vide chairman of the board Jānis Aizbalts. At the beginning of the year, the company he heads opened the store “Lab!”, where you can find electrical goods that previous owners had thrown away but that the company’s craftsmen have repaired again. Worldwide this is a business worth billions. Aizbalts says that the average customer in the store is around 50 years old […]

A special representative of the Saeima will be attending to the Republican-led US Congress

Adapting to the new working style of the administration of Latvia’s strategic partner, the Saeima Presidium has decided to send its representative to Washington, the capital of the United States, who will be responsible for good relations with the US Congress. Lithuania’s legislature has had such a representative for a longer time already, and their performance can only be envied. The Chair of the Saeima Foreign Affairs Committee, Ināra Mūrniece, a representative of the opposition National Alliance, has called this decision by the parliament’s Presidium […]

In the 14th Saeima elections, the SAB deemed the use of Latvia.lv unsafe

Already in the previous Saeima elections, the Constitution Protection Bureau (SAB) deemed the portal Latvija.lv, created by the State Digital Development Agency (VDAA), to be insecure and requested that it not be used in the elections, according to information available to Inc. In its restricted-access (IP) document, SAB urgently asked the organizers of the election process to assess the technical possibilities of not using the unified authentication mechanism of the http://www.latvija.lv portal in the Electronic Online Voter Register and in the Election Management Systems. […]