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Lithuania’s Seimas amended the education act on 17 March despite continuing protests by minority organisations. The new regulations, starting as early as 1 September, will radically reduce the use of minority languages at non-Lithuanian…
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| Paweł Siarkiewicz
The electorate appreciated the government's restrictive financial policy that prevented Estonia from taking out foreign loans in the recession and facilitated the country's entry to the euro zone in January 2011. Prime Minister Ansip also…
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| Joanna Hyndle-Hussein
The votes of the electorate do not forecast an easy victory over the governing right in the upcoming parliamentary elections, however they do confirm that the Polish minority stands a chance of having its own grouping in the Seimas of the…
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A solemn ceremony of fixing a cross on the dome of an Orthodox church, which took place on 19 February in Lasnamae, a district of Tallinn where ethnic Russian residents are predominant, became an element of the Centre Party’s campaign…
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On 10 – 11 February Latvia's president, Valdis Zatlers paid an official visit to Lithuania. That was the first visit of Latvia's head of state in 10 years. In his talks with Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaite, Zatlers sought above…
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UK Prime Minister David Cameron organised a meeting with the heads of the Nordic states' governments and the three heads of governments of the Baltic States (the ‘NB8’ – Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Lithuania, Latvia and…
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The Latvian government on 18 January rejected the application for permanent residence lodged by the former mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov. Although Luzhkov has made significant investments in Latvia, he has been deemed an undesirable alien…
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The euro became the official currency in Estonia on 1 January. The introduction of the common currency, which became possible owing to a policy of sharp budget cuts, crowns the difficult economic reforms and symbolically closes the process…
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The commission receiving offers from strategic investors for the nuclear power plant building project on 3 December ended its operation without having selected a winner. One of the two offers received failed to meet the conditions, and the…
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Lithuania’s Seimas amended the citizenship act on 4 November. The new law grants individuals of Lithuanian background the right to hold double citizenship. Double citizenship is allowed on condition that one of the person’s parents is a…