News from Latvia brought to the UK in English, to help bring awareness from Latvia to the UK.
Riga International Airport announces record passenger turnovers in 2011, but ironically simultaneously Latvia’s national airline, airBaltic, is rumoured to be heading for bankruptcy. Riga International Airport has seen a growth of 20% in the number of passengers travelling via their airport, most travelling to European destinations. Unfortunately the growth in passenger lists has not...
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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) have agreed to provide a loan of 34.4 million Euros to AS Graanul Invest to expand on their biomass fuelled combined heat and power (CHP) plants in the Baltic’s. AS Graanul Invest is an Estonian based privately owned company specialising in bioenergetics and renewable energy production....
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All three Presidents of the Baltic states; Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia had the opportunity to meet and hold individual discussions with US President Barack Obama in Warsaw, Poland at a dinner on Friday. As part of his European tour President Obama attended a working dinner in Poland with the leaders of Central and Eastern...
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Much headway was made during a recent meeting at the Nigeria High Commission in London between Marcis Liors Skadmanis, the Chief Operations Officer of the Latvian British Chamber of Commerce (LBCC) and Bashir Musa, the Minister of Economics and Commerce of Nigeria in the UK. Nigeria is a fast developing state, the largest and...
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On 1st July 2010 the Immigration Law in Latvia was amended. These amendments allow foreigners outside the European Union to get a temporary residence permit in Latvia, which would by default, guarantee free movement within the Schengen area. There are three ways for obtaining a temporal residence permit for the period of up to...
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Latvian cosmetic company, Dzintars, plans to open more shops abroad via the franchise system. Recently Dzintars 13th franchise shop in Russia was opened in Izhevsk. There are 49 Dzintars shops in Latvia, 13 in Russia, 2 in Estonia, 1 in Georgia and 1 in Ukraine. The company is reported to have turned over LVL...
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