The Latvian parliament plans to vote on a proposal which would limit trade with alcohol in the near future. The daily Latvijas Avīze welcomes the initiative:
“In Latvia more than 10 litres of pure alcohol are consumed per capita and per year, there are countless alcoholics and statistics show that the number of minors [...]
Russian commentators have devoted enormous attention to the Russian-speaking communities in Estonia and Latvia, but they have largely ignored the Russian-speaking community in Lithuania not only because it is significantly smaller but also because Vilnius did not require Russians living there to do anything but ask for citizenship to obtain it.
Now, however, it appears [...]
Denmark’s elite has changed fundamentally, writes Lars Olsen in his blog for the daily Jyllands-Posten:
“In recent decades civil servants have acquired more power at the expense of elected representatives, and a new layer of ‘experts’ has formed coming from consulting firms, research institutes and the like.
At the same time the social composition of parliament [...]
In many countries in Eastern Europe, tolerance toward gays and lesbians is on the rise – but not in Lithuania, the news agency Delfi laments:
“It is true that since 1993 there has been a law prohibiting discrimination against sexual minorities, but in our country gay parades are unimaginable after the 2006 and 2007 [...]
Member of the Board of Latvian Union for Youth Progress Sergey Potapkin, chairman of All-Russia public organization “Russian Union of Youth” Andrey Platonov and co-chairman of the Young Entrepreneurs International Business Forum Ivan Polyakov signed Memorandum of intent to establish International Association of Eurasian Business Partnership.
The Association’s goal is to develop international business contacts; [...]
In December 2009, 20.2 percent of all Finns aged below 25 were unemployed, according to figures published on Tuesday by Statistics Finland.
But youth unemployment is a European problem and all affected states should work together, writes the daily Etelä-Suomen Sanomat:
“The word ‘job creation scheme’ does not have a good reputation because it doesn’t necessarily [...]
A growing number of Swedish fathers are taking paid parental leave.
Now nearly one quarter of recipients are men, but that’s not enough, writes the daily Göteborgs-Posten:
“Better than a quota would be to get rid of the hindrances to equal access to parental benefits that still exist. The most important thing is to [...]
Hindus want European Union (EU) to focus on ending Roma apartheid during its self-declared “2010 European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion”.
Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that it was a good opportunity for EU to show responsibility and prove that it was really serious in its [...]
The Institute on Religion and Public Policy calls upon the government of Japan to cease its long-term and persistent use of kidnapping and forced confinement to compel its citizens to deny and change their religious beliefs.
It has been reported that just in the Unification Church alone, more than 4,000 members have been victimized to [...]
Hindus, expressing concern regarding the health of minority populations, have asked Sweden to urgently look into its health set-up.
“Most of the national minorities have a worse health status than the population as a whole”, according to a new survey by Swedish National Institute of Public Health, a state agency under Swedish Ministry of Health [...]
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