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• Saeima's committees continue work on the draft amendments to the Citizenship Law
  
• State Language Centre initiated a case against the National Council of Electronic Mass Media for violation of the State Language Law

Latvijas Avize reports the Saeima’s Legal Committee continues to work on the draft amendments to the Citizenship Law  before the final reading in the Saeima. Besides the fact that the draft amendments will allow dual citizenship with other countries and procedure on granting Latvian citizenship to children of non-citizens will become easier, some of legal norms will become stricter towards applicants for naturalisation. Thus, persons who with their behaviour or activities endangers Latvian state or public security, state’s democratic constitutional system, state independence and territorial integrity will not be able to receive Latvian citizenship.

The State Language Centre initiated a case against the National Council of Electronic Mass Media for not providing translation of its seminar into Latvian language. Speaker of the seminar spoke to journalists only in English. Representatives of the Council explained they did not have funding for translator and were not aware of the law violation. The National Council might be punished with LVL 25-50 (EUR 35-70).