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.

• The Ministry of Justice is finalising new list of different state language requirements for representatives of different professions
• Representatives of universities comment the draft Law on Higher Education Establishments
• The Minister of Economics believes that during the next five years Latvias economy will not need a substantial number of guest workers

The Ministry of Justice is finalising new list of different state language requirements for representatives of different professions. According to

The Ministry of Justice is finalising new list of different state language requirements for representatives of different professions. According to Vesti-Segodnya, 14 pages-long list includes professions such as sports athletes and street cleaners. The requirement to know the state language at the highest level is extended to managers and engineers, as well as to teachers of private minority education establishments. The draft envisages penalties such as fines or dismissal form the job for the lack of the state language proficiency certificate or failure to communicate in the state language according to the required level of proficiency. Newspapers also report that the State Language Centre of the Ministry of Justice decided to increase to 3 the number of state language inspectors in Daugavpils (mainly Russian-speaking town in the East of Latvia). Vesti-Segodnya, Chas

Vesti-Segodnya interviews representatives of universities about the draft Law on Higher Education Establishments, which envisages prohibition to teach in foreign languages in private universities. Representatives of private universities criticised the draft, arguing that it infringes the rights of students as consumers, interferes with private enterprise, curtails the export of education, which attracted foreign students to universities of Latvia and motivates young people to go elsewhere in search of better education.

The Minister of Economics believes that during the next five years Latvia’s economy will not need a substantial number of guest workers. As reported, 3,113 foreigners received official work permits in Latvia in 2007, - three-fold increase from 2006.

The Minister of Economics believes that during the next five years Latvias economy will not need a substantial number of guest workers. As reported, 3,113 foreigners received official work permits in Latvia in 2007, - three-fold increase from 2006. Chas