Seventy years ago, on 8 September 1944, Speaker of the Latvian parliament (Saeima), Pauls Kalniņš assumed the duties of the President of Latvia and signed the Declaration on restoration of the…
Dear colleagues and friends, I have stood behind this lectern many a time, but never in this capacity. Dear participants, Let me congratulate you on the 15-year anniversary of administrative courts…
Honourable Women Members of the Parliament, Esteemed Members of the Parliament, Ladies and gentlemen, I Walls of this Plenary Chamber are adorned with two plaques quoting the first two paragraphs of…
President of Latvia, Egils Levits, underlined the need to change the existing social paradigms about everyday lives of the disabled during today’s meeting with Chair of the Latvian Umbrella Body for…
President of Latvia, Egils Levits, will pay his first official visit to Poland on 10-11 September to meet with senior government officials and discuss the bilateral relations between Latvia and…
On 3 September, Egils Levits, President of Latvia, hosted a credentials-presentation ceremony at the Riga Castle for Her Excellency Ms Orli Gil, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Israel…
On 3 September, Egils Levits, President of Latvia, met Rūta Muktupāvela, President of the Latvian Rectors’ Council, and Jānis Bernāts, Secretary General of the Latvian Rectors’ Council, at the Riga…
Dear pupils and teachers of the 2nd Gymnasium, Dear friends, I I am absolutely thrilled to return here for the 1st of September assembly after so many years. I think this day is marked with mixed…
Dear friends, New friends starting their schooling today, Madam Headmaster, Dear parents, Teachers, and all 12th-year senior pupils for whom this is the last First Day of School assembly, Good…
I am deeply honoured to celebrate the First Day of School today with you. Although, on the one hand, this day marks the end of summer, which I hope all of you have enjoyed, and you are now probably a…