Section: The Baltic Course (Latvia)
TransMin invites Germany, Ukraine, Azerbaijan to use Latvia’s transport infrastructure
Latvian Transport Minister Uldis Augulis (Greens/Farmers) during the International Transport Forum in Leipzig, Germany, invited German, Ukrainian and Azerbaijani representatives to build cooperation with Latvia in transport, the Transport Ministry reported LETA. …read more Source: The Baltic...
KVV Group confirms owner Kazmin detained in Ukraine
Ukraine’s KVV Group, the owner of the Latvian metallurgical plant KVV Liepajas Metalurgs, after categorically rejecting last week allegations about the involvement of its co-owner, Yevgeny Kazmin, in financing of separatism in Ukraine or any other criminal activities in Ukraine and the illegally occupied territories, has changed its tune...
Vejonis reproaches Ukrainian investors of KVV Liepajas Metalurgs for resorting to blackmail
By announcing their intention to turn to the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), the Ukrainian investors of the Latvian metallurgy plant KVV Liepajas Metalurgs have resorted to blackmail, Latvian President Raimonds Vejonis said LETA. …read more Source: The Baltic...
Estonian two times Olympic bronze eyeing manufacture of electric cars in Ukraine
Juri Tamm, who won bronze in hammer throw in the Moscow Olympics in 1980 and in Barcelona in 1988, is planning to start manufacturing electric cars in Ukraine a couple of years from now if he can find an investor to put 4 million euros into the project, Postimees said. …read more Source: The Baltic...
Ukraine International Airlines to launch Palanga-Kiev flights
Ukraine International Airlines will launch a route between Ukraine’s capital Kiev and the Lithuanian seaside resort of Palanga in summer 2016, informs LETA/BNS. …read more Source: The Baltic...
KVV Group denies any involvement of Kazmin in criminal activities
Ukraine’s KVV Group, the owner of the Latvian metallurgical plant KVV Liepajas Metalurgs, categorically rejects allegations about involvement of its co-owner, Yevgeny Kazmin, in financing of separatism in Ukraine or any other criminal activities in Ukraine and illegally occupied territories, informs LETA. …read more Source: The Baltic...
Estonia and Germany strengthen parliamentary cooperation
Deputy Speaker of the Estonian parliament Helir-Valdor Seeder and Speaker of the parliament of the German state of Bavaria Barbara Stamm talked about cooperation, interparliamentary ties, the situation in Europe and migration crisis, relations with Russia and Ukraine-related developments at a meeting here on ay 6th, reports LETA/BNS. …read...
On Ukrainians’ request, Estonian bookstores pull Russian propaganda books
Following a protest from local Ukrainian organizations, Estonia’s two largest bookselling chains pulled literature, which according to the Ukrainian organizations defames Ukraine and justifies Russia’s aggressive foreign policy, informs LETA/BNS. …read more Source: The Baltic...
A new “union” is born: the need for a “unified” security policy among EU-28
The Commission prepared a package of legal drafts concerning the most pressing challenges the EU as a whole presently faces, i.e. security, migration and Ukraine. First of all, the package aims at more coordinated and more “unified” security policy: in Commission’s words, “we need to move towards a genuine and effective Security Union”....
Latvian MFA: EU must do more to counter illegal migration
On 15 April, the Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics took part in the Kyiv Security Forum and delivered remarks at the plenary session entitled “European Unity: New Breath or Last Call” speaking about challenges posed by migration at the European and global scale, as well as about the upcoming British referendum on the future of its EU...
