Section: The Baltic Course (Latvia)
Kaljurand and Malmstrom discuss relations with Eastern Partnership countries
Estonian Foreign Minister Marina Kaljurand and the European Union’s Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom at their meeting on November 17th spoke about developments in the partner countries of the EU Eastern Partnership and trade relations with Ukraine, reports LETA/BNS. …read more Source: The Baltic...
International Black Sea Transport forum 2016 will be held in October in Odessa
International Black Sea Transport forum 2016 will be held on October 19-21, 2016 in Odessa at the territory of Odessa marine terminal. It includes the 19th international exhibition on transport and logistics “TransUkraine 2016”, specialized exhibition on railway transport “TransRail Ukraine 2016”, specialized exhibition “Commercial and Municipal...
Danish-owned sewing company Lanika Baltic goes bankrupt
Lanika Baltic, a Danish-owned Lithuanian sewing company that employed a workforce of 450 people at its best times, is going bankrupt and moving production to Ukraine, where costs are much lower, the business daily Verslo Zinios reported on November 12th, reports LETA/BNS. …read more Source: The Baltic...
Nordic Aviation Group offered the first direct flight from Tallinn
Formed by appointment of Estonian government and fully state-owned Nordic Aviation Group in cooperation with five European flight operators starts serving passengers on eight different routes – Amsterdam, Brussels, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo, Kiev, Trondheim and Vilnius – from November 8, 2015. The first flight operated by Nordic Aviation will...
Latvian PM sees more extensive possibilities for economic cooperation with Ukraine
Latvian Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma, on November 6th held a meeting with Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk to discuss bilateral relations of the two countries in different fields and the EU-Ukraine relations, informed BC press secretary to the Prime Minister Aiva Rozenberga. …read more Source: The Baltic...
Lithuanian businessmen slapped with lawsuits in Kazakhstan
Lithuanian investors face problems in Kazakhstan as tax authorities in the Central Asian country, which has been affected by Western sanctions on Russia, use all possible means to raise additional budget revenue, the business daily Verslo Zinios reported on November 6th, reports LETA/BNS. …read more Source: The Baltic...
Heads of Baltic Governments expressed solidarity with Ukraine
On Thursday, November 5, the Heads of Government of the Baltic States and Ukraine met in Riga to discuss the EU-Ukraine relations, the European security policy and the fulfilment of the Minsk Agreement, as well as the reform process in Ukraine, reported BC press secretary to Latvian Prime Minister Aiva Rozenberga. …read more Source: The...
Latvian MFA: despite the refugee crisis in Europe, EU’s must maintain attention on Ukraine
In Kyiv on 27 October, Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Pavlo Klimkin, to discuss bilateral relations between the countries, the security environment in Ukraine, and the relations between the European Union (EU) and Ukraine, especially the status and pace of the reform processes in Ukraine,...
President: Latvia will never recognize the annexation of Crime
Latvia will never acknowledge the annexation of Crimea and will always support Ukraine, Latvian President Raimonds Vejonis declared during a meeting in Kiev today with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, reports LETA. …read more Source: The Baltic...
President Vejonis in Ukraine urges steps to create non-visa entry policy
President Raimonds Vejonis, while on his official visit in Kiev, relayed the Latvian government’s desire for Ukraine’s government and parliament to implement a non-visa entry and travel policy, informs LETA. …read more Source: The Baltic...
