Integration monitor is a daily Latvian press digest on ethnic minority and society integration issues. The Monitor reviews the biggest Latvian dailies: Diena, Latvijas Avize, Neatkariga (in Latvian language), Vesti Segodnya (in Russian language). In specific cases other information sources are used. Latvian Centre for Human Rights is not responsible for information published by the media.

• Latvian language newspapers continue discussion about possible opening of Latvian labour market to guest workers
• Chas prints an article about the possible consolidation of the Latvias First Party/Latvias Way and the Concord Centre
• A demonstration to demand the granting of voting rights to Latvian non-citizens is planned by the National Democratic Party
• FHRUL launches a campaign Threatened monuments

Latvian language newspapers continue discussion about possible opening of the Latvian labour market to guest workers. The Minister of Transport Ainars Slesers (Latvia’s First Party/Latvian Way) in an interview to the business portal

Latvian language newspapers continue discussion about possible opening of the Latvian labour market to guest workers. The Minister of Transport Ainars Slesers (Latvias First Party/Latvian Way) in an interview to the business portal Baltic Business Service stresses that the labour market could be opened for high-qualified labour force, especially in the building sector. The minister does not foresee high interest of the citizens of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia in becoming guest workers in Latvia due to the rapid growth of construction sector in these states. According to him, in the future Latvia will be forced to import labour force from Germany and other EU member states as well as Eastern countries. Diena, Neatkariga Rita Avize

Chas features opinions of the leader of the union of Latvias First Party/Latvias Way Ainars Slesers and the head of the Saeima Concord Centre parliamentary faction Janis Urbanovics regarding a possible consolidation of these political forces in order to attract the votes of ‘new citizens. Neither of them foresees merging of these two parties in the near future, at the same time not excluding such a possibility in future.

Leader of the radical National Democratic Party Jevgenijs Osipovs is planning to organise a demonstration on 8 September in order to demand the granting of voting rights for Latvian non-citizens. The union For Fatherland and Freedom/LNIM is planning to adopt a statement calling upon the Riga City Council to refuse the proceeding of this demonstration in the centre of Riga.

Leader of the radical National Democratic Party Jevgenijs Osipovs is planning to organise a demonstration on 8 September in order to demand the granting of voting rights for Latvian non-citizens. The union For Fatherland and Freedom/LNIM is planning to adopt a statement calling upon the Riga City Council to refuse the proceeding of this demonstration in the centre of Riga. Neatkariga Rita Avize, Latvijas Avize

For Human Rights in the United Latvia (FHRUL) has announced about the launching of the campaign “Threatened monuments” in order to protest against the plans of the municipality of Bauska to relocate the memorial stone dedicated to the soviet soldiers from the centre of town to cemetery. FHRUL has named the plans of the municipality as part of ‘planned destruction of the memorial sites of the WWII realised by the nationalists of the Baltic States’.

For Human Rights in the United Latvia (FHRUL) has announced about the launching of the campaign Threatened monuments in order to protest against the plans of the municipality of Bauska to relocate the memorial stone dedicated to the soviet soldiers from the centre of town to cemetery. FHRUL has named the plans of the municipality as part of ‘planned destruction of the memorial sites of the WWII realised by the nationalists of the Baltic States. Latvijas Avize, Chas, Telegraf