On Thursday, 30 May, the Saeima adopted in the final reading amendments to the Maintenance Guarantee Fund Law, enabling young adults of legal age studying abroad to receive maintenance from the state if parents do not pay it. 

On Thursday, 30 May, the Saeima adopted in the final reading amendments to the Law on Residential Properties in order to promote the renovation and proper maintenance of apartment buildings. They provide an opportunity for apartment owners to decide on issues important to the house even if a part of the residents does not engage in solving these issues. 

On Thursday, 30 May,  the Saeima adopted in the final reading amendments to the Law on the Handling of Real Estate to Prevent Threats to National Security and amendments to the Law on Assistance to Ukrainian Civilians in order to allow the state to transfer the acquired money to Ukraine after the sale of the Moscow House. 

On Thursday, 30 May, the Saeima adopted in the second and final reading urgent amendments to the Commercial Law, according to which in cases where the joint stock company does not have all the current data on the shareholder, it will be allowed to submit an incompletely completed first-time shareholder register to the Register of Enterprises.

Speakers of the parliaments of Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Poland, and France call on Georgia to withdraw the recently adopted “foreign agent” law. The parliament speakers sent a joint letter to Shalva Papuashvili, Chairman of the Parliament of Georgia, underlining that the spirit and the content of the Law on Transparency of Foreign Influence, adopted by the Georgian Parliament, are incompatible with European norms and values. The idea to call on Georgia to repeal the controversial law arose last week in Riga during the meeting of Daiga Mieriņa, Speaker of the Saeima, and Markéta Pekarová Adamová, Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Parliament.

In the presence of the delegation from Latvia’s Parliament, a special carpet made in the museum's master workshop was ceremoniously cut from the loom at the Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum in Baku. The work is a replica of a unique carpet that decorated the study of Latvian writer Jānis Akuraters during the inter-war period.

For Latvia, Azerbaijan is an important partner country in the South Caucasus, and while we have a successful political dialogue, this is not yet reflected in the volume of our mutual trade. We see promising opportunities to expand economic cooperation, as well as to develop contacts between municipalities and cooperation between universities, said Daiga Mieriņa, Speaker of the Saeima, when meeting with Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan, and Sahiba Gafarova, Speaker of the Parliament (Milli Majlis), in Baku on Monday, 20 May.

“Moldova is successfully continuing its reform path. Tangible progress has already been made in a number of areas, including reforming the judiciary and fighting corruption. The result is also illustrated by the fact that last December the leaders of the European Union decided to start accession negotiations with Moldova,” said Zanda Kalniņa-Lukaševica, Deputy Speaker of the Saeima head of the Latvian Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Zanda Kalniņa-Lukaševica, on Friday, 17 May, in the meeting of the PACE Monitoring Committee in held in Paris, France.

We share a common view on the security situation in Europe and appreciate Czech initiatives and contribution to strengthening our security, said the Speaker of the Saeima Daiga Mieriņa on Wednesday 15 May, meeting with Markéta Pekarová Adamová, Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic.

In order to learn from Latvia’s experience, inter alia in regard to European integration issues, staff members of the Research Service of the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament of Ukraine) will visit the Saeima on 16 and 17 May.