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Estonia’s National Audit Office has warned that direct payments by patients remain above the European Union average, despite growing healthcare expenditure. Annual healthcare spending in Estonia now exceeds €3.3 billion,…
Estonian energy group Eesti Energia began preliminary consultations on collective redundancies on 5 November. Its initial plan includes 390 positions across Enefit Industry, Enefit Power and Eesti Energia AS; the…
Source: Eesti Energia ASEstonia has proposed issuing up to 2,569 temporary residence permits in 2027 to foreign workers in industries facing labour shortages. The Ministry of the Interior submitted three draft regulations for…
From 1 November 2026, some third-country nationals can no longer submit an initial Lithuanian temporary residence permit application for ordinary employment or bachelor’s studies while in Lithuania if they are…
Estonian-founded software company Pipedrive has announced plans for the largest restructuring in its history, proposing substantial reductions in staff, management layers, teams and office locations. In a statement published on…
Latvian airline airBaltic has confirmed plans to cut approximately 100 pilot and 200 cabin crew positions as it prepares for a smaller flight programme in 2027. The reductions will affect…
Coolbet is preparing to cut around 130 jobs at its Tallinn headquarters, citing weaker-than-expected business performance and growing regulatory and tax pressures. VG Estonia, the local company operating the headquarters…
Source: ERRSwedbank is reducing its workforce by around 500 employees across the group, including approximately 100 in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. The figures were disclosed by Olavi Lepp, head of Swedbank…
Norway’s largest bank, DNB, has confirmed that employees at its Riga service centre will be affected by a restructuring that will eliminate approximately 400 full-time-equivalent positions across the group’s Technology…
Latvia is facing calls to review its procedure for granting citizenship for exceptional services to the country after parliament reversed its decision to award citizenship to Indian-born researcher Divya Kannan…
Telia Company plans to cut around 210 positions in Estonia and Lithuania as part of a new restructuring programme affecting approximately 900 jobs across the group. Around 100 positions are…
More than half of Latvian households have at least one pet, with cats nearly twice as common as dogs, according to January 2026 survey data from SKDS and the Worldwide…
Latvia’s government has approved a 71-measure plan aimed at tightening immigration controls, including future quotas for third-country nationals, restrictions on foreign students and changes affecting foreign workers and residence permits.…
The Baltic states continue to attract international technology companies and business service centres. Yet some of the employers that helped establish the region’s reputation are now…
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…
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