{"id":22755,"date":"2014-12-19T00:03:40","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T23:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=22755"},"modified":"2014-12-19T00:13:51","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T23:13:51","slug":"22755","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/22755\/","title":{"rendered":"Latvia An EU Model?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the US Latvia is known for its musicians.\u00a0 Young Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons has just taken over the Boston Symphony as music director.\u00a0 Atonenko and Garanca are household names as singers of opera.\u00a0 Now the country has made a strong showing in its firt year using the Euro.<\/p>\n

Latvia will enter its big year in the European Union\u2019s spotlight in the style that all politicians like: according to projections, it will prove to be the fastest-growing economy in the eurozone in 2014, its first year using the common currency. It had already topped the EU\u2019s growth league in 2013 and 2012, and ranked second in 2011.<\/p>\n

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J\u0101nis D\u016bklavs, 62, initially became Latvia\u2019s agriculture minister \u2013 a post traditionally reserved for the Union of Greens andFarmers when they are in government \u2013 in 2009. That year D\u016bklavs, previously unaffiliated, joined the Union, but \u2013 along with his party \u2013 was out of power from 2011-14.<\/p>\n

On the dark side, Gajlina Karma\u010da, who is the financial director at the company Lage Ko<\/em>, which owns the Gan Bei<\/em> and other restaurant franchises, is being held under suspicion for being one of the core masterminds of an organized crime group that rigged cash register accounting software to avoid paying up to \u20ac800,000 a month in duties to state tax authorities.<\/p>\n

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In the US Latvia is known for its musicians.\u00a0 Young Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons has just taken over the Boston Symphony as music director.\u00a0 Atonenko and Garanca are household names as singers of opera.\u00a0 Now the country has made a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t