- 17.2.09 20:21
- "Latvia has lost competitiveness due to the wage orgy of 2005 – 2007 and in the recent year due to the tumbling of several currencies of trading partners (since 18 February 2008 (a year ago) the Russian rouble has lost 19% of its value; in Belarus the number is 11%, United Kingdom 16%, Norway 9%, Sweden 14%, Poland 23% and no less than 29% for the Ukrainian hryvna)."