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In 2025, almost everything in Latvia was shrinking: the population, births, remigration, immigration and even the number of deaths. Yet employers and universities continued to draw thousands of people from abroad. Their numbers are far too small to…
PhotoLatvia is tightening controls on grain shipments from Russia and Belarus just as the Baltic route is becoming increasingly important for Russian exports. The Saeima has introduced border controls allowing grain and animal-feed cargoes from third countries to…
Estonia’s government has approved its 2027 state budget and the 2027–2030 budget strategy, with expenditure of €20.2 billion and revenue of €19.4 billion. The general government deficit is projected at 4% of GDP. The gap matters beyond the…
Latvia has declared a nationwide agricultural emergency after prolonged rainfall disrupted harvesting and autumn field work. The immediate problem is not only the crop still remaining in fields. Wet soils are preventing machinery from operating in some areas…
This week’s Baltic Focus Weekly Brief looks at labour-market pressure across the three Baltic states, alongside new investment, housing, energy, defence and transport signals. The common constraint is becoming clearer: people, financing and capacity.
Shrimp alone accounted for more than 12% of Estonia’s fish and seafood export volume in 2025. According to Statistics Estonia, the country exported 9,406 tonnes of shrimp. For a country on the Baltic Sea, that raises an obvious…
PhotoairBaltic’s Chapter 11 filing and Ryanair’s new Baltic proposal turned aviation capacity into one of the week’s biggest regional questions. At the same time, diesel prices kept rising across all three Baltic capitals even as wholesale markets began…
PhotoFor a while, drivers of combustion-engine cars could afford not to think too much about fuel prices. By autumn, that luxury was gone, and wondering what comes next had returned to the morning menu somewhere between the news…
PhotoRyanair is not simply offering the Baltics more flights. It is positioning itself for part of the market being left open as airBaltic restructures and reduces capacity. From Riga alone, airBaltic’s Winter 2026/27 programme drops Faro, Kittilä, Ljubljana,…
PhotoairBaltic has entered a US court-supervised Chapter 11 restructuring after months of attempts to stabilise its finances. Flights continue and the airline has commitments for €350 million of new financing. The procedure now has to answer a more…
PhotoRiga remains the largest individual airport in the Baltic states. But by the end of summer, the more important question is no longer who is first by passenger numbers.
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