Latvian Political Monitor

From@AndrisKulbergs

🇱🇻 Today Latvia did not support the draft decision prepared by the Irish presidency. The situation is not simple. Extending sanctions requires the consent of all 27 EU member states. If no agreement is reached by the deadline, the retention of sanctions for the entire list is endangered, not just for Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman. Extending sanctions for 36 months would be the right step. However, the price for that must not be the simple removal of both individuals from the sanctions list. Latvia cannot accept such an offer. 🇪🇺 Therefore, tomorrow together with Foreign Minister @Braze_Baiba we will work with Brussels and Paris to find a solution that MATCHES Latvia's interests. We will seek support for Latvia's position WITHIN THE EUROPEAN UNION. I have convened an extraordinary Cabinet meeting for tomorrow on this matter. 🇺🇦 While Russia continues the war, European pressure must become stronger, not more comfortable for the Kremlin.

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From@AndrisKulbergs

🇱🇻 Today Latvia did not support the draft decision prepared by the Irish presidency. The situation is not simple. Extending sanctions requires the consent of all 27 EU member states. If no agreement is reached by the deadline, the retention of sanctions for the entire list is endangered, not just for Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman. Extending sanctions for 36 months would be the right step. However, the price for that must not be the simple removal of both individuals from the sanctions list. Latvia cannot accept such an offer. 🇪🇺 Therefore, tomorrow together with Foreign Minister @Braze_Baiba we will work with Brussels and Paris to find a solution that MATCHES Latvia's interests. We will seek support for Latvia's position WITHIN THE EUROPEAN UNION. I have convened an extraordinary Cabinet meeting for tomorrow on this matter. 🇺🇦 While Russia continues the war, European pressure must become stronger, not more comfortable for the Kremlin.

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From@AndrisKulbergs

🇱🇻 Today Latvia did not support the draft decision prepared by the Irish presidency. The situation is not simple. Extending sanctions requires the consent of all 27 EU member states. If no agreement is reached by the deadline, the retention of sanctions for the entire list is endangered, not just for Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman. Extending sanctions for 36 months would be the right step. However, the price for that must not be the simple removal of both individuals from the sanctions list. Latvia cannot accept such an offer. 🇪🇺 Therefore, tomorrow together with Foreign Minister @Braze_Baiba we will work with Brussels and Paris to find a solution that MATCHES Latvia's interests. We will seek support for Latvia's position WITHIN THE EUROPEAN UNION. I have convened an extraordinary Cabinet meeting for tomorrow on this matter. 🇺🇦 While Russia continues the war, European pressure must become stronger, not more comfortable for the Kremlin.

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From@AndrisKulbergs

🇱🇻 Today Latvia did not support the draft decision prepared by the Irish presidency. The situation is not simple. Extending sanctions requires the consent of all 27 EU member states. If no agreement is reached by the deadline, the retention of sanctions for the entire list is endangered, not just for Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman. Extending sanctions for 36 months would be the right step. However, the price for that must not be the simple removal of both individuals from the sanctions list. Latvia cannot accept such an offer. 🇪🇺 Therefore, tomorrow together with Foreign Minister @Braze_Baiba we will work with Brussels and Paris to find a solution that MATCHES Latvia's interests. We will seek support for Latvia's position WITHIN THE EUROPEAN UNION. I have convened an extraordinary Cabinet meeting for tomorrow on this matter. 🇺🇦 While Russia continues the war, European pressure must become stronger, not more comfortable for the Kremlin.

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From@AndrisKulbergs

🇱🇻 Today Latvia did not support the draft decision prepared by the Irish presidency. The situation is not simple. Extending sanctions requires the consent of all 27 EU member states. If no agreement is reached by the deadline, the retention of sanctions for the entire list is endangered, not just for Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman. Extending sanctions for 36 months would be the right step. However, the price for that must not be the simple removal of both individuals from the sanctions list. Latvia cannot accept such an offer. 🇪🇺 Therefore, tomorrow together with Foreign Minister @Braze_Baiba we will work with Brussels and Paris to find a solution that MATCHES Latvia's interests. We will seek support for Latvia's position WITHIN THE EUROPEAN UNION. I have convened an extraordinary Cabinet meeting for tomorrow on this matter. 🇺🇦 While Russia continues the war, European pressure must become stronger, not more comfortable for the Kremlin.

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From@AndrisKulbergs

🇱🇻 Today Latvia did not support the draft decision prepared by the Irish presidency. The situation is not simple. Extending sanctions requires the consent of all 27 EU member states. If no agreement is reached by the deadline, the retention of sanctions for the entire list is endangered, not just for Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman. Extending sanctions for 36 months would be the right step. However, the price for that must not be the simple removal of both individuals from the sanctions list. Latvia cannot accept such an offer. 🇪🇺 Therefore, tomorrow together with Foreign Minister @Braze_Baiba we will work with Brussels and Paris to find a solution that MATCHES Latvia's interests. We will seek support for Latvia's position WITHIN THE EUROPEAN UNION. I have convened an extraordinary Cabinet meeting for tomorrow on this matter. 🇺🇦 While Russia continues the war, European pressure must become stronger, not more comfortable for the Kremlin.

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From@AndrisKulbergs

🇱🇻 Today Latvia did not support the draft decision prepared by the Irish presidency. The situation is not simple. Extending sanctions requires the consent of all 27 EU member states. If no agreement is reached by the deadline, the retention of sanctions for the entire list is endangered, not just for Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman. Extending sanctions for 36 months would be the right step. However, the price for that must not be the simple removal of both individuals from the sanctions list. Latvia cannot accept such an offer. 🇪🇺 Therefore, tomorrow together with Foreign Minister @Braze_Baiba we will work with Brussels and Paris to find a solution that MATCHES Latvia's interests. We will seek support for Latvia's position WITHIN THE EUROPEAN UNION. I have convened an extraordinary Cabinet meeting for tomorrow on this matter. 🇺🇦 While Russia continues the war, European pressure must become stronger, not more comfortable for the Kremlin.

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From@GEd1505

@Raivis40118307 @AndrisKulbergs @Apvienotais_ For particularly slow ones - to get Saudi Arabian oil, you have to go through Hormuz. There is a second option - a pipeline from Saudi Arabia to the Red Sea, but that, firstly, has been bombed and even intact doesn't provide a large flow, and secondly - to get to it, you have to go past the Houthis.

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From@guntarsv

All correct, you just haven't fully completed the courses. Tax reduction is not possible until you defeat the communists and take their money away. Those taxes have long been distributed in 'free' services, which the communists happily receive. Otherwise, bad things happen. If taxes are reduced without taking away the communist's 'free' morsel, the communists keep spending, but the state goes bankrupt. I do not want our country to go bankrupt the way the Soviet republics' family did. They were handing everything out for free until they went bankrupt. I urge you to continue lifelong learning and you will eventually get a diploma and receive my congratulations🙂

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From@andrislov

How incredibly quickly the apostle of the free market learns the state language once he gets to the soft chair of the Ministry of Finance. Yesterday Vītols was still shouting about tax terror and unyielding capitalism, but today he already reverently chants Baiba Bāne's Excel economics dogmas. When Kulbergs proposes to reduce the fuel excise tax, the former libertarian has a short circuit. How? Leave money to the drivers themselves so the economy doesn't stall? Where does the sacred redistribution and revenue plan go? From a fighter against the system to its loyal guard of Excel spreadsheets—that's the real Latvian success story!

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