Economics
Latvian Parties Agree Budget, Euro as Coalition Talks Begin
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Latvia’s ruling Unity party and former President Valdis Zatlers’s Reform Party said they agree on economic policy as talks begin to form a coalition to govern the Baltic nation after weekend elections.
Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis’s Unity and the Reform party together won the most votes in parliamentary elections Sept. 17, coming in third and second behind Harmony Center, which targets the country’s Russian-speaking minority. Parties linked to men Zatlers labeled “oligarchs” who may secretly control companies lost ground.