Integration monitor
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.
Авг. 31, 2015
- Raivis Dzintars: collisions over the refugee redistribution will not bring down the government
- Cabinet of Ministers will consider informative report on public assistants to the State Language Centre
- Secretary of Latvian Human Rights Committee Aleksandrs Kuzmins was issued expulsion order in Lithuania
Neatkariga interviews the leader of National Union, MP Raivis Dzintars. Mr. Dzintars believes that the decision to redistribute 40,000 refugees within the EU will not solve the problem, and on the contrary, this will contribute to more people fleeing into the EU, increasing the pressure. He highlights that some countries do not take refugees within the present arrangement and believes the negotiators did not take into account the fact that the share of ethnic Latvians in Latvia is very low. Mr. Dzintars believes that genuine war refugees do not cross several countries to escape from the war, and that most Syrian refugees stay in safe areas within Syria or in neighbouring states. According to Raivis Dzintars, collisions within the government coalition over the refugee redistribution will not bring down the government.
The Cabinet of Ministers will consider informative report "On the establishment of the institution of public assistants to the State Language Centre" on 1 September 2015. The volunteers will provide assistance to ensure correct usage of the state language, including grammar, style and terminology, as well as monitor possible violations and report to the State Language Centre. Assistants shall have the highest level of Latvian language proficiency and a degree in social sciences. The report envisages up to 100 assistants by 2016, and budget EUR 6,929 in 2015, EUR76,605 in 2016 and EUR 70,953 in 2017. Vesti Segodnya
On 24 August 2015, the secretary of Latvian Human Rights Committee (and assistant of the MEP from Latvia Tatjana Zdanoka) Aleksandrs Kuzmins was issued an expulsion order and five year entry ban by authorities in Lithuania. Citizen of Latvia Aleksandrs Kuzmins intended to participate in the international conference "Ethnic nationalism as a threat to peace and stability" in Klaipeda. Vesti Segodnya