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Latvia

Type: Country

Name: Latvia

population: 2,306,489

First Reported 21 hours ago - Updated 20 hours ago - 2 Documents

UPDATE 1-Latvia Q3 jobless rate hits 18.4 pct, seen rising

RIGA, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Unemployment in recession-hit Latvia rose in the third quarter to 18.4 percent from 16.7 percent in the previous three months and from 7.2 percent in the same period of 2008, the statistics office said on Friday.The figure was ... [FinanzNachrichten.de - 20 hours ago]

Entities: Latvia, Riga, European Union, International Monetary Fund, Patrick Lannin

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 3 Documents

Herman van Rompuy

Who Is Up For The EU President Job?

Â© Sky News 2009Chris Roberts looks at the leading contenders for the job of EU president.The British ex-Prime Minister is one of a number of current and former EU leaders who are candidates for the top post created by the Lisbon Treaty.But the appointment ... [Colorful - 11/19/2009]

Entities: European Union, Lisbon Treaty, Herman van Rompuy, Chris Roberts

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Uri RivnerAgents of Evil

Air Parcel Express is a boutique international shipping company based in Sweden. They offer a wide choice of logistic services such as mail forwarding and global distribution, creatively supporting their customers supply chain. They maintain several warehouses ... [Finextra Research - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Fraud, Global Distribution, Riga, Identity Theft, Latvia

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents

European Union

EU President: Q&A on tough selection process

Attempts to choose a President and a High Representative for the EU after the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty have not been going smoothly. Published: 3:00PM GMT 19 Nov 2009Herman Van Rompuy - the Belgian prime minister is frontrunner to be Europe's ... [Telegraph - 11/19/2009]

Entities: European Union, Fredrik Reinfeldt, Brussels, Herman van Rompuy

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Corporate Deals)

European Investment Bank

HIGHLIGHTS-EBRD, EIB, IFC officials at euro finance week

THOMAS MIROW, PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT 'We have to face very different situations in the region. We are just starting to get into an early recovery. Hungary is undertaking very, very impressive efforts to improve ... [Interactive Investor International - 11/19/2009]

Entities: European Investment Bank, World Bank Group, Capital Markets, Thomas Mirow

First Reported 16 hours ago - Updated 16 hours ago - 1 Documents (in Economy)

International Monetary Fund

Latvia backs tax rises to meet IMF/EU loan terms

Finance ministry spokesman Aleksejs Jarockis said the five-party coalition government had agreed measures that would raise a further 57.9 million lats ($121.3 million) to help meet a target of overall budget cuts worth 500 million lats. The government ... [Interactive Investor International - 16 hours ago]

Entities: Latvia, International Monetary Fund, European Union, Taxes, Riga

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Angela Merkel

Hail to the Chief, if you can manage to say it

I'll be penned in with the rest of the press corps tonight at the European Council building, waiting for Angela Merkel and the other leaders of the member states to choose the new president of the Council; well, actually just waiting for Merkel to choose. ... [Mail Online - Euroseptic: Mary Ellen Synon in B ... - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Angela Merkel, Massimo D'Alema, Miguel Angel Moratinos, Vaira Vike-Freiberga, Olli Rehn

First Reported 21 hours ago - Updated 21 hours ago - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Swedbank daughter company in Latvia chooses HansaWorld ERP solution for their property management

Riga, 2 November- "Īpašumu pārvaldes fonds" Ltd., the daughter company of Latvia's biggest bank Swedbank, has chosen HansaWorld's ERP solution for their property management. HansaWorld was acknowledged as the company providing the best ratio of functionality ... [IT Backbones - 21 hours ago]

Entities: HansaWorld, Swedbank AB, Latvia

First Reported 15 hours ago - Updated 15 hours ago - 1 Documents

CheapoAir made my mother cry

mother, Mary Ellyn, bought a round trip from Cincinnati to Tallinn, Estonia, with stopovers in Newark and Stockholm. But something was wrong with the reservation, and she had to pay for another flight. Does that ? Despite repeated attempts to contact ... [Elliott.org - 15 hours ago]

Entities: Christopher Elliott, Tallinn, Estonia

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Who's still in the running to be European Council president?

Who's in he frame to get the top job in Europe?EU leaders are holding a summit meeting to decide on the three posts up for grabs after the Lisbon treaty was ratified by all member states – the president of the European council, the EU's high representative ... [Guardian.co.uk - 11/19/2009]

Entities: European Union, Paavo Lipponen, Vaira Vike-Freiberga, Jean-Claude Juncker, Latvia

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

EU Approves â,¬103 Million Capital Injections For 'Mortgage And Land Bank Of Latvia'

State aid: Commission approves ?103 million capital injections for 'Mortgage and Land Bank of Latvia'The European Commission has approved, under EC Treaty state aid rules, two capital injections in favour of 'The Mortgage and Land Bank of Latvia' (LHZB). ... [eGov Monitor - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Mortgages, National Bank of Latvia, European Union, Latvia

First Reported 19 hours ago - Updated 19 hours ago - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Revenue plummets in Latvia as prices rise

Latvia's tobacco excise revenue during the first nine months of this year, at Lats89.65 million, was down by 18 per cent on that of the first nine months of 2008, according to a Baltic Business Daily story quoting the State Revenue Service.The drop in ... [Tobacco Reporter - 19 hours ago]

Entities: Latvia, Illicit

Quotes

...for the marketplace scheduled to launch in the first half of 2010, subject to member readiness and necessary approval from local authorities. "NASDAQ OMX is committed to improving the liquidity in the exchanges in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and we believe that launching a single currency trading venue will be beneficial to all market participants, listed companies and investors locally and internationally', said Hans-Ole Jochumsen, President NASDAQ OMX Nordic. 'Trading and settling in one currency for the members and investors will increase the accessibility to the Baltic market and thereby make it more attractive'.The new marketplace will be set upup on the same trading platform as the regulated markets, with no additional costs to members and investors to access the new market. This marketplace will have one rulebook and will offer trading in all shares listed on the Baltic stock exchanges. This includes the Baltic Main list as well as the Baltic Secondary list, with all shares that are officially admitted to the regulated markets of all three Baltic countries."

NASDAQ: NASDAQ OMX Baltic Creates a Single Marketplace for Trading in Euro [RBC Dain Rauscher - 20 hours ago]

"We are very pleased about the fact that "Īpašumu pārvaldes fonds" has chosen our solution for their business. We look forward to a long and successful business relationship. Enterprise by HansaWorld offers automation of many business processes, and this is crucial if you want to be competitive in the market. Our solution allows employees to save time, raises the level of control and helps to produce overall company efficiency as the net result. Another very important benefit is the possibility to reduce costs. Enterprise by HansaWorld provides tools for higher quality property management" says Edmunds Sprudzs, CEO of HansaWorld Latvia

Swedbank daughter company in Latvia chooses HansaWorld ERP solution for their property management [IT Backbones - 21 hours ago]

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UPDATE 1-Latvia Q3 jobless rate hits 18.4 pct, ... [FinanzNachrichten.de - 20 hours ago]
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Blogs

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If you thought it was all over... [Nick Robinson \| The Reporters - 11/19/2009] No-one is ready to pronounce Tony Blair's presidential hopes dead but they are certainly reading the last rites for them. So, Britain looks set to get neither ...
Hail to the Chief, if you can manage to say it [Mail Online - Euroseptic: Mary Ellen Synon in B ... - 11/19/2009] I'll be penned in with the rest of the press corps tonight at the European Council building, waiting for Angela Merkel and the other leaders of the member states ...
Intel Brief: Poland On Edge Over Russian Drills [IntelliBriefs - 11/19/2009] Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at the Strategic Operations Excercise Centre, 2008 Russia's largest ever post-Cold War military games near the border with Poland, ...
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Gitmo-As-We-Know-It Will Officially Span Two De... [Wonkette - 11/18/2009] A lot of gynecologists and other lady and/or oncological doctors disagree completely with yesterday’s new things about mammography announcement. [New York Times] Obama ...

Audio/Video

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