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.

• Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma warned the National Union with exclusion from the governing coalition

The Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma warned the National Union with exclusion from the governing coalition if its members submit an appeal to the Constitutional Courtagainst the government’s decision on accommodation of refugees in Latvia. As reported, the National Union was dissatisfied that the government’s decision on accommodation of refugees was adopted during a closed session of the Cabinet of Ministers instead of discussing it at the Parliamentary session. Vesti Segodnya