Lithuanian taxmen are using Google Street View as a tool to find people, who build their homes with undeclared taxable money. Two recent cases totalled more than 100.000 euro in penalties after investigators found buildings photographed by Google that could not be … Read More
According to Helsinki Times Danske Bank, one of the largest banks in Finland in terms of deposit holdings, plans to shut down nearly half of its offices in the country, daily newspaper Keskisuomalainen reports. It is the head of communications … Read More
Investment in SMEs working in the area of environmentally innovative technologies is producing above average returns, creating valuable jobs and also alleviating environmental impacts, according to a new report. The performance of young SMEs funded over the past two years … Read More
I believe we all heard about the Little Mermaid and Hans Christian Andersen, about big and strong Vikings who were great warriors, about Danish Royal family… but are those the only things that associate us on Copenhagen? Copenhagen is called … Read More
The Latvian Parliament - Saeima - will allow all rulings from the country´s Courts to be published on the internet as from 1 September. Amendments to the laws are to be reviewed and submitted as a bill for review on June … Read More
Sweden has climbed up one spot and is now the fourth most competitive country in the World - and still the best in the European Union according to a new ranking from the Swiss business school. The United States claimed … Read More
The Estonian Ministry of Justice has completed a new strategy paper to combat corruption aiming at more transparency in state institutions by making a number of databases accessible to all. The paper points out the nescessity to use existent IT solutions. For example, if … Read More
To the daily paper ‘Žinių radijas’ the Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius today said that Lithuania has many chances to switch to the euro in 2015. Meanwhile, Lithuania’s Finance Ministry and the central bank have worked out a draft National … Read More
More than 600 delegates representing governments, political parties, business, academia and civil society will discuss cooperation possibilities and growth initiative in the Baltic Sea Region at the BDF Summit opening today. During two days in Riga, the Latvian Capital, the … Read More
Bad vibes between Germany and Italy because some 300 African refugees reportedly received €500 from the Italian government to leave for Germany. Now the refugees have set up home behind the Bismarck monument in Hamburg, where there is no shelter and, … Read More
Almost half of EU citizens (46%) now go online to look for a job, use the public library, file a tax return, register a birth, apply for a passport or use other eGovernment services. 80% say online public services save … Read More
Danes, Germans and Norwegians are more then ever - purchasing popular Swedish smultronställen - summer cottages - for their families. In 2012, more than 36,000 of Sweden’s vast stock of summer cottages had gone into foreign ownership. Almost 12,000 Danes have bought … Read More
Buying rabies vaccines for immunizing wild predators and paying for the service of distributing lures in Belarus in 2013. That are part of an agreament beween Belarus and Latvia and Lithuania. The measures include the purchase and distribution of lures with … Read More
As I’ve already mentioned, I live in old farmstead (on Google maps street view, this is how our house looks like: More than 100 years ago when manors had their haydays and peasants not so much, the local squire ordered … Read More
A brand new film series about Latvia from U.S. television producer, author and personality Ashley Colburn could help attract more tourists, especially from the U.SA., LETA/Nozare.lv tells. The Ashley Colburn Productions creative team spent two weeks in Latvia, working together with … Read More
The encouragament to build more - and larger - families to stop a dramatic demographic drop, Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski is fronting a newly-prepared programme with proposals that aims to create more conducive circumstances for “would be parents”. The proposals include … Read More
Estonia has for decades suffered by emigration, but although about 11,000 people left the country last year,no-one is able to say how much the state is losing as a result. While 4,244 people settled in Estonia last year, the balance was … Read More
After seven nights with riots and many cars set on fire Stockholm police this morning reports only scattered instances of torched cars in immigrant-dominated suburbs, as rainy weather and strengthened vigilance resulted in what was likely to become the quietest … Read More
Two Latvian companies – Latvenergo and Aldaris - has been awarded to be in the Platinum category in this year’s Sustainability Index. 13 companies received the bronze category certificate. Silver certificate was given to 24 Latvian companies. 12 participants were … Read More
Yesterday I was on a tram, traveling from Pasila to Kallio. I started to think different ways to travel around Helsinki. Helsinki public transportation (HSL) offers many good ways to reach different areas in Helsinki. Take train to the suburbs … Read More
