On 5 August, President Edgars Rinkēvičs met with the Minister of the Interior Rihards Kozlovskis at the Riga Castle. The discussion focused on ways to strengthen internal security and its priority in the forthcoming national budget deliberations. A key topic of the conversation was the ongoing debate regarding planned changes to the service pension system and their impact on employees of the internal affairs services. President Edgars Rinkēvičs emphasised that, in developing the service pension reform, it is essential to take into account the implications of the proposed changes for human resource availability within the internal affairs sector, given its critical role in ensuring internal security. During the meeting, E. Rinkēvičs and R…