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.

• Chas: new immigrants from third countries may have more rights in the future than Latvias non-citizens
• Nationalists to protest against the international pop-singer contest New Wave

Chas reports that yesterday, the European Commission adopted the European Agenda for the Integration of Third-Country Nationals. The Agenda foresees the broadening of the rights of immigrants for their integration, including the right to vote in the local elections. According to the newspaper, in the case of implementation of such provision in Latvia, this may give rise to a situation when recent immigrants from the third countries will have more rights than Latvias non-citizens who have been residing in Latvia for a much longer period of time as they do not have the voting rights.

Today, members of the nationalist party For Fatherland and Freedom/LNIM plan to hold a protest action against the international contest of young pop-singers “New Wave” organised by Russia’s TV channel in Jurmala (seaside resort town near Riga). The nationalists are dissatisfied that there are no songs being sung in the Latvian language at the festival and consider that the star walk of fame contradicts the State Language Law as the inscriptions on it are not in the Latvian language.

Today, members of the nationalist party For Fatherland and Freedom/LNIM plan to hold a protest action against the international contest of young pop-singers New Wave organised by Russias TV channel in Jurmala (seaside resort town near Riga). The nationalists are dissatisfied that there are no songs being sung in the Latvian language at the festival and consider that the star walk of fame contradicts the State Language Law as the inscriptions on it are not in the Latvian language. Vesti Segodnya