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 Aigars Kalvitis: the national policy concerning the influx of guest workers in Latvia will not be changed
• Diena: growing intolerance is one of the indicatives that Latvia began to move on from liberal to conservative society

The Prime Minister of Latvia Aigars Kalvitis in an interview with

The Prime Minister of Latvia Aigars Kalvitis in an interview with Diena stated that the national policy concerning guest workers in Latvia will not be changed. Aigars Kalvitis argued that instead of attraction foreign labour force, efficiency and capacities of local labour force by implementing new technologies should be increased. He stated: if Latvia accepts the arrival of cheap foreign labour force there will be no reason to raise wages locals and that will continue in immigration of Latvian labour force to more developed EU countries.

The columnist of

The columnist of Diena writes that growing intolerance towards others is one of the indicators proving that Latvia start to move from a liberal to a more conservative society for past four years. The director of the Latvian Centre for Human Rights Ilze Brands-Kehre in an interview with the newspaper stated that tolerance issues are mentioned very little in the pre-election programs of political parties: parties avoid bearing responsibility for prevention of violence and promotion of tolerance.