Latvian Political Monitor

🎯Demography is one of Latvia's most important challenges today, and New Unity has a clear proposal on how to address it. 🗣️At the DELFI debates, the parliamentary secretary of the Ministry of Health, Līga Āboliņa, discussed demography, health policy and the necessary solutions. ➡️Listen to the debates in full: https://t.co/gvkCHHIeAp

🎾 Ivars @Ijabs: In Latvia, there is a lack of coordination in civil crisis management. Source: TV24 https://t.co/i5SqCzkT1r

After August's storm, the prime minister is demanded to provide explanations about the state's readiness for crises.

@sauluberniba @MellersMd @VKleinbergs @Progresivie @KNABinforme @Kottello Since I became a state official, I have not been on the board of any association.

Updated - Ille Madise elected as President of Estonia

It was a pleasure to have 🇬🇧 Foreign Secretary @Ed_Miliband in a wider European and Canada family meeting. We were able to agree on joint work to strengthen European security, support Ukraine in its defence against Russian aggression, counter Russian state sponsored terrorism. https://t.co/dqPJzjxM6h

Interesting conversation with the Ambassador of Kazakhstan about opportunities to expand economic cooperation, as 🇱🇻 has potential to increase added value for our products in both agriculture and forestry. https://t.co/AQwIZOtMHY

To strengthen the electricity supply infrastructure and reduce the risks that trees falling during storms pose to power lines, in the @Jekaba11 Economic Affairs Committee we reviewed amendments to the Protection Zone Law, providing for revising and expanding the tree-free zone along high-voltage power lines. https://t.co/INE4gzUtR6

❗️❗️❗️Labor must be brought in from other countries, says @RostovskisA. There is no other way out, he adds. 🇱🇻🚗 However, unfortunately there are still cases where Latvians willing to work leave our country. 🇳🇴 Two months ago, an older woman from a small town on the Kurzeme coast went to Norway, where she was paid a salary of 800 euros at a local grocery store. I understand that in the age of artificial intelligence, the seller is a disappearing profession and rural shops do not have large turnover. ☝️However, the overall numbers must be taken into account. 👉 SIA “Rimi Latvija” profit in 2025 was 39 million euros. 👉 SIA “Maxima Latvija” - 50 million. 👉 Lidl's profit is negative, but that is because the company is rapidly expanding its operations in Latvia, and its turnover in 2024 was 460 million. Of course, Latvian Elvi and Top and those that the Enterprise Register shows lower incomes must compete with these international concerns. It is understandable if the members of lobbyist Rostovskis's @LTRK_uznemeji association do not care what kind of employees will work for low wages - Latvians or Uzbeks. 🇱🇻🇱🇻🇱🇻 But that is important for the Latvian state! We must call Latvians back and business must also get involved in promoting re-emigration. Therefore, one of the goals of the compatriots' return program must be support measures for those entrepreneurs who employ people previously working in England, Ireland and Germany, and sanctions against those traders who pay humiliatingly microscopic wages. 🇵🇱 And we must learn from Poland how to get compatriots back! We can do this especially because the average wage in the country is rising! #ReemigrācijaNevisIslams p.s. The portrait of a Latvian woman in Norway was created by AI

Rinkēvičs: Kulbergs' government still has some urgent matters to complete before the Saeima elections