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Remigration charges are rising: in 2015, 12,000 extra Latvian residents left than returned, whereas final 12 months this quantity was minus one thousand. To ensure that this quantity to have a plus signal, as it’s in Estonia and Lithuania, help and measures for this space, together with beginning a enterprise, must be elevated, bureaucratic obstacles must be decreased, in response to the non-governmental group With world expertise in Latvia.
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Though there are nonetheless extra individuals leaving Latvia than returning, there are nonetheless hopes that quickly there can be a smaller quantity with a minus signal, so we now have to work to make it occur, emphasizes Miks Muižarājs, who has been main the group since 2017 With international expertise in Latvia. It unites round 100 individuals who as soon as moved to stay overseas, however then returned to Latvia. In comparison with its neighbors, Lithuania achieved a optimistic remigration stability in 2019.
Final 12 months, 10,283 left there, whereas 17,549 arrived. Optimistic tendencies have additionally been noticed in Estonia since 2017, and final 12 months there have been about 150 extra arrivals than departures. This proves that this drawback may be solved, stated M. Muižarājs on the session of the Saeima’s Citizenship, Migration and Social Cohesion Fee.
Sketching the portrait of the remigrant, he identified that 63% are aged between 15 and 54, 11% are youngsters underneath 14, which is a possible contribution to our labor market. A 3rd of those that have returned select Riga as their place of residence, the remainder go to the areas.
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