The Purple Tomato Case: why Latvia’s GMO seedling case matters
GMO tomato seedlings in Latvia exposed a regulatory gap: Norfolk Purple moved through a gardening fair and informal seed channels.
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Latvia’s non-bank lenders issued over €1bn in consumer loans in 2025
Latvia’s licensed non-bank lenders issued €1.003bn in new consumer loans in 2025, while their separate business-purpose lending portfolio exceeded €1.1bn…
Baltic Focus Brief, 1–7 June 2026 — signal pool
Working frame The week is about capacity: energy, rail, capital, airports, labour, exports, digital resilience and state delivery. The useful…
What Operating Environment Is Latvia Selling to Foreign Investors?
Baltic Focus analysisEditor: Galina Molochkova Riga has just hosted a dense run of investor-facing events built around stability, innovation, competitiveness…
Furniture retailer buys Kaunas logistics hub in deal worth half its annual revenue
Araneta, the company behind the Baldų turgus furniture retail brand, has acquired a 16,000 sq. m logistics, showroom and office…
LAU Infra Grupa IPO tests Latvia’s market for state-controlled infrastructure assets
Official materials describe LAU Infra Grupa as the first Latvian state-owned enterprise potentially to list shares on the stock exchange.
Barcelona rental money and the Latvian source-of-wealth question
A story about illegal short-term rentals in Barcelona has developed a Latvian financial and business angle.
Riga Airport reshuffles its terminal economy as Avolta and WHSmith partner enter RIX
The new 12-year concession is not a simple story of foreign operators entering Riga. RIX was already internationalised; the real…
Latvia’s new government closes the political vacuum, but not the execution risk
The cabinet led by Andris Kulbergs is not entering a normal political cycle. Its declaration reads less like a broad…
Lithuania’s Register Centre breach exposes a slow response chain inside the digital state
More than 600,000 Lithuanian real-estate register records, including personal identification codes, were allegedly copied after unauthorised users accessed the Register…