Ansip’s meeting was part of a short tour through Latvia and Estonia in which he met with his government counterparts as well as prominent businessmen.
via Ansip finishes Baltic tour.
Hadn’t realized the Prime Minister of Estonia toured through, ahem, Estonia.
RIGA – The following is the list of documents some teachers are required to submit to qualify for an EU stipend to improve their qualifications that this particular teacher has to collect in just one week’s time:
1. CV
2. A continuous education certificate
3. The organization of the learning process:
3.1 Study plans
3.2 Lessons evaluations
3.3 Lessons self-analisys
4. The organization of upbringing activities
4.1 Description of activities
5. Analysis of student achivement
5.1 Tests and test analysis
6. Support for students with special needs
6.1 Individual student development plan
7. Gaining experience and practice
7.1 Teaching tools – tables, schemes for the Russian language classes
7.2 Teaching tools – tests, exercises for literature classes
8. The use of information and communication technologies
8.1 The Russian language lesson presentation
9. The leading of the lesson by the methodology for the long-term ill students
RIGA – I talked to someone last night about the grand disillusionment in the ability of the people of Latvia to govern themselves. Before Latvia joined the EU, it adopted a series of reforms with a goal of joining the EU in mind, as opposed to evaluating whether policies are good for the people of this country. After Latvia joined the EU, she appeared to have decided to take a holiday from policy-making, creating havoc in the economy, which eventually overheated and stalled. Now she’s standing on the crutches supported by the EU and the IMF who will help her along the way to join the eurozone in a few years time. But after that, she’ll just surrender most of her independence to Frankfurt, Brussels, Washington and never learning to govern herself for the benefit of her own people.
“Those who want to understand in details understand why Latvia is holding to its position. If simple conclusions are drawn and details are not considered, one may not understand why Latvia was unhappy for its liberation [from the Germans]. What was liberation for some, meant the beginning of the third occupation for others. It is a fight with a windmill as for Don Quixote, but this fight has to be fought,”
– Indulis Berzins, the Latvian ambassador to the UK, on the March 16 march commemorating Waffen SS veterans.
“What do you spend so much time with those compensations? Do you want us to die of hunger?” – the acting prime minister Ivars Godmanis’ press secretary Edgars Vaikulis told Diena newspaper for an article published Saturday on compensations (worth of three months of their wages) that ministers and their advisers would receive after they quit.