Lithuania’s ambassador to the United States, Rolandas Krisciunas, has taken the unprecedented step of writing a letter of complaint to the retailer Walmart, after it...
Tag - Latvia
Latvian national rail company Latvijas Dzelzcels (LDz) and its freight shipping subsidiary LDz Cargo are demanding 82.32 million euros from Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai...
Swedish furniture giant IKEA has opened its first store in Riga, Latvia. The new 34,500 sq m store sits on a 10 hectare site, in which IKEA have invested over 50 million...
The concept of civil society is a product imported into Latvia in the 1990s. It was rooted into the idea that democracy could be stabilised by promoting people’s self...
Private equity investment in CEE reached 3.5 billion euros in 2017, a 113 per cent year-on-year increase and a record high level for the region, new data from Invest...
The Council of Europe’s Committee of Experts on the Evaluation of Anti-Money Laundering Measures and the Financing of Terrorism, known as Moneyval, states in a new...
In a new evaluation report the Council of Europe’s Group of States against corruption (GRECO) has called on Latvia to reinvigorate integrity in top executive functions...
PKN Orlen (Orlen), a major Polish oil refiner and petrol retailer, and Lithuania have had a love-hate relationship for almost a decade. While Orlen has invested heavily...
Seasonally adjusted GDP rose by 0.4 per cent in both the euro area (EA19) and the EU28 during the second quarter of 2018, compared with the previous quarter, according...
The Lithuanian Competition Council has approved the acquisition of Nelja Energia, an operator of wind farms in Estonia and Lithuania, by Enefit Green, the renewable...
The European Investment Fund (EIF) has signed a microfinance guarantee agreement with ALTUM, Latvia’s state-owned development institution. The agreement, which...
Where is our Macron? As a Frenchman working with political parties across Europe, this is a question that often comes back from my interlocutors. Urban liberals from...
