05 Feb 2024 News

The new Baltic Startup Funding Report is published

The new Baltic Startup Funding Report by FIRSTPICK and Change Ventures compares the Baltic states with European leaders in startup funding. The report overviews the highs and lows of the startup funding peculiarities in H2 of 2023. 

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19 Mar 2024

Latvian government agrees on major cyber security update

On Tuesday, March 19, the Latvian Cabinet of Ministers approved the draft law “National Cyber ​​Security Law”. The purpose of the draft law is to strengthen cyber security in Latvia, as well as to introduce the revised requirements of the European Union Network and Information Systems Security Directive (NIS2) to achieve a uniformly high level of cyber …

18 Mar 2024

Latvia calls for manganese sanctions against Russia

On March 18 2024, at the European Union (EU) Foreign Affairs Council meeting in Brussels, Latvia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Krišjānis Kariņš, called for an increase in the sanctions pressure on Russia and for work to begin on a fourteenth round of sanctions against Russia.