Past experiences dampen Latvia’s appetite to patch looming labour gap
Negative memories of forced migration during the Soviet occupation hold back a discussion how to fill predicted 35,000 labour gap.
Inga Spriņģe, Re:Baltica
A Country for Old Men
Latvia is slowly aging. Schools are shut down and transformed into old folks homes. By 2030, almost half of Latvia’s inhabitants are projected to be over the age of 50 while the number of working people will drop by one…
Land of paedophiles
This is the English version of Inga Spriņģe’s opinion piece for Norway’s newspaper Dagbladet on why should they care about being called paedophiles. A couple of years ago an article on Facebook, shared widely by several of my educated, urbanite, latte-drinking…