Latvian Political Monitor

📺 In the Morning Panorama about the government's 4×4 report. The report lists processes and plans, but the public expects concrete results – less bureaucracy, a stronger economy, and greater support for families. Latvia needs politics that not only promises but also delivers! https://t.co/zBYRKGUhiM

ZZS insisted that Rail Baltica documents must be public. The accessibility status of a document is determined by its creator, and in this case the Ministry of Transport has assigned them restricted access status.

🔰ZZS already in autumn 2023 achieved that Russian bloody grains no longer enter Latvia and Europe, and together with the Prime Minister we also achieved higher tariffs. 🔰The Ministry of Economics already in 2024 prepared a plan for reorienting ports to new markets, the Ministry of Transport blocked it and for two years nothing has been done!

Transit through Latvia often appears in statistics as exports, because companies purchase goods in the EU and then export them onward. But at the same time, the EU must restrict trade with Russia; if there is no political will, there is the option to introduce tariffs that make imports economically unprofitable.

The main thing is that the export of quality education is the true goal and result of universities, not the trading of TUA and the influx of labor.

By establishing that only those who have passed international university entrance exams at a good level can apply to study at Latvian universities, these “students” would not end up here. In addition, target countries (EU and OECD is a good solution) and the allowable number of foreign students must be determined.

@GundegaFelicity These are your fantasies. You are thoroughly confused. How are 'respectful relationships' related to disgust towards one's own body? Here we stop. Meaningless discussion.

@GundegaFelicity Did you read the articles? Or did you not understand that it is not about religion, but a broader context—starting to supplement sex education with good relationship-building principles, morality, and ethics, rather than the bare skill of using contraception?

Attracting foreign students is not a problem in itself. But the main issue is quality. Latvia needs: • a clear quality control mechanism • verifiable knowledge before admission • a reasonable proportion of foreign students in state universities https://t.co/aSAgNZAWrg

Do schools teach indecency?<br><br>“Masturbation is ‘selfish self-gratification’, ‘critical attitude towards contraception and safe sex propaganda’, ‘sex outside marriage is abuse of the body and person’, ‘to understand that changing sex is impossible’, ‘to realize that the meaning of sexuality is love, because love respects the whole human personality’, ‘to understand that yielding to lust (fornication) is the opposite of the virtue of chastity, because in such a case sexuality is not connected with love but with egoism’.<br><br>These are just a few quotes from the ‘TeenStar’ program of moral education on sexuality issues researched under the auspices of the University of Latvia. It was created in the USA, but now several European countries have adopted it as a possible teaching standard in state schools. Latvia could too, if it weren’t for resistance from two fields: namely, health education and gender equality experts.<br><br>Representatives of this direction object to exploring sexuality through moral frameworks, teaching to understand the body’s physiological processes only in the context of biological sexuality, absolutely detaching these processes from sin, family, values, and moral principles. In other words, sexuality is reduced to the level of animal instincts. This reminds me of the early Soviet years when the People’s Commissar of Education Anatoly Lunacharsky declared that having sex is like drinking a glass of water. The current Latvian education standard continues this thesis, adding information about safe contraception methods – the condom – which protects against unwanted consequences. But it omits the morality that can protect against performing unwanted actions.<br><br>Sex education without a context of virtues is incomplete because it cannot develop into sex education aimed at achieving the family as the goal of relationships. Quite the contrary – it can hinder the formation of lasting relationships because it defines false goals of cohabitation. In my opinion, only because of such views is it possible to create the term ‘unwanted pregnancy’ (not including rape and medical complications here), because family and childbearing are not supported as values. That is not love but egoism masked by pleasure.<br><br>It is interesting that the demographic crisis goes hand in hand with liberalism in attitudes towards relationships – as statistics show (the French Ministry of Health’s science institute INSERM) – compared to the early 1990s, today the number of female partners is more than double, and for men – half. Where is morality?<br><br>In times of declining birth rates and a negative Latvian migration balance, such sex education that does not promote family formation is not supportable. Moreover, this is not just a pragmatic view, but a desire to live in a beautiful, virtuous society.<br><br>More on the ‘pro’ and ‘contra’ here:<br><br>https://t.co/ydphEJkIqT<br><br>https://t.co/6BdYqXXxkV<br><br>https://t.co/YhQgzO52Fv

I see that in the Saeima there are political forces that think economically and in a state-minded way. If we cannot resolve certain issues in the government, we will seek support in the Saeima among those who think about Latvia's interests. It is not a state-minded approach to tell people that losing jobs is a normal thing. The state's duty is to defend its citizens and its economy. We also need to very carefully monitor sensitive areas such as Rail Baltica and other major projects. We currently see serious signs of possible squandering of funds in the Rail Baltica project, potentially amounting to tens or even hundreds of millions of euros. There must be clear accountability for this. If a ministry is unable to oversee this area, it creates serious risks for the state and taxpayers' money.

We will definitely propose that the Ministry of Economics take over foreign trade matters from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. When will the Progressives stop blocking the port development roadmap? It must be adopted to reorient our transit business, for example, to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. 📺 What's happening in Latvia? LTV.

Society must see for what amounts what is being built! Documents related to Rail Baltic must be visible to the public.