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	Union of Greens and Farmers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Zaļo un Zemnieku Savienība (abbreviated ZZS, English: Union of Greens and Farmers or Union of Greens and Rustics) is a political alliance in Latvia.
		In March 2004, Indulis Emsis from the Green Party became the Prime Minister of Latvia.
		On a European scale, the Green Party is cooperating with the European Federation of Green Parties/European Free Alliance and the Farmer's Union is cooperating with the European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Union_of_Greens_and_Farmers (287 words)

	Welcome to the Australian Greens Online - View Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Greens Immigration Spokesperson, Senator Kerry Nettle, has warned that the closing of Woomera, Baxter and Port Augusta Housing project signals the removal of asylum seekers off shore to Christmas Island away from medical, legal and community support services.
		Greens Education spokesperson, Senator Kerry Nettle, today called on Labor President Warren Mundine to justify why he thinks parents who send their kids to public schools should be forced to pay higher taxes.
		Greens Senator Kerry Nettle today described Education Minister Julie Bishop's claim that the current federal schools funding formula is 'fair and transparent' as 'rubbish', calling on future funding changes to focus on quality not special interests groups.
	www.greens.org.au (1040 words)

	Latvia Update - European Forum
		New Era, the First Party, the Green Party-Farmers’ Union, and Alliance Fatherland and Freedom Party formed the centre-right coalition in the Saeima and were chosen to govern in the second sitting of the new parliament.
		A new government, led by Indulis Emsis, head of the conservative "Union of Greens and Farmers" (ZZS) was approved by the parliament in March 2004.
		For the elections to the 8th Saeima (2002), the Farmer’s Union joined an election alliance with The Greens as The Green Party and Farmers’ Union and gained 12 seats in the Parliament.
	www.europeanforum.net /country/latvia (5324 words)

	Agriculture [encyclopedia] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Farmers plant seeds, cultivate soil and crops, harvest crops, and send them to market; or they breed animals for their milk, meat, hides, or other products.
		Farmers rely heavily on inputs, natural or man-made resources that allow them to grow, cultivate and harvest crops, or to breed animals.
		Farmers must learn to negotiate many uncertainties that can have potentially disastrous effects on their crops.
	www.kosmoi.com /Technology/Agriculture (2954 words)

	Latvian government splits on mission in Iraq - Pravda.Ru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The party has partnered with the Greens to form the Greens and Farmers Union, one of four members in the governing coalition.
		Farmers' Union officials said they expected the Greens to support their decision.
		However, the government may be able to push through an extension of the Latvian troops' mandate even without the support of the Greens and Farmers Union, which have only 12 lawmakers in the 100-seat Seima, the AP reports.
	english.pravda.ru /hotspots/2005/09/01/62108.html (437 words)

	Einars Repše - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Einars Repše graduated from Latvia State University (now known as University of Latvia) in 1986 with a degree in physics.
		He first entered politics in 1988 as one of the founders of Latvian National Independence Movement (LNNK), a political organization promoting Latvia's independence from Soviet Union.
		He led a coalition of his own New Era Party, the Latvia First Party, the Union of Greens and Farmers and For Fatherland and Freedom.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Einars_Repse (495 words)

	Polity IV Country Report 2003: Latvia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		On 4 November 2002 New Era, the Union of Greens and Farmers (ZZS), the Christian-oriented Latvia First Party (LPP), and the conservative Fatherland and Freedom Union (TB-LNNK) formed a coalition government.
		Prime Minister Repse submitted the resignation of his coalition government on 5 February 2004; President Vike-Freiberga asked Indulis Emsis of the Union of Greens and Farmers (ZZS) to form a new government.
		In May 2002, the legislature adopted amendments to the country's election laws abolishing the requirement that candidates for public office should be fluent in the Latvian language.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/polity/Lat1.htm (594 words)

	THOSE FAR OUT GREENS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The Greens and Farmers Union has thus defined its pre-election platform: It will offer the electorate a tribe of invisible turncoats led by bogeyman George Soros.
		This is, of course, more opaque that Latvia’s First Party’s image of a legion of gays taking over the country, and it could ultimately backfire: Either the Greens and Farmers will come off as a clique of crackpots, or they will anger Soros and get him to put his money where their mouth is.
		Generally, the Greens and Farmers Union’s tactics reflect their own desperation.
	www.baltictimes.com /news/articles/13966 (501 words)

	REFERENDUM ON THE EUROPEAN UNION IN LATVIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Latvia, that was the last country to vote on European integration, approved its entry into the EU by 67%, with 32.3% of the electorate who voted against.
		The European Union has successfully completed its enlargement by 10 new countries who mainly lie in the former Communist part of Europe (in the nine States called on to vote by referendum, the "yes" was victorious, mostly by a wide margin.)
		The reunification of the European continent, that started at the beginning of the 1990's, after the demise of Communism that had divided Europe into two hermetic, hostile blocks for fifty years, is now complete.
	www.robert-schuman.org /anglais/oee/lettonie/referendum/resultats.htm (979 words)

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		Voters went to the polls on 5 October 2002 in general elections held less than two months before the NATO Prague Summit at which the country was expected to receive an invitation to join the Atlantic alliance.
		This membership possibility was one of the main items during the electoral campaign as was the country's accession to the European Union, with a referendum on this subject to be held in September 2003.
		On 5 November 2002, Parliament held its first sitting and the Union of Greens and Farmers' Chairwoman Ingrida Udre was elected as its new Speaker.
	www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/2177_E.htm (441 words)

	Latvia Government Information
		The centrist "Latvia's Way" party received a 33% plurality of votes and joined with the Farmer's Union to head a center-right wing coalition government.
		A minority government led by Greens and Farmers Union leader Indulis Emsis, including the People's Party and the First Party and with the tacit support of leftist parties, took office on March 9, 2004.
		The new government was focused on smoothing Latvia's entry into NATO and the European Union.
	www.traveldocs.com /lv/govern.htm (963 words)

	Foreign & Commonwealth Office Country Profiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		In 1940 it was occupied by the Soviet Union under the provisions of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with Nazi Germany.
		These four main parties are the people’s party, new era, Latvia's first party and greens’ and the farmers' union.
		As a result, the People’s Party, the First Party and the Greens and Farmers, will continue to work as a 3-party coalition with minority parliamentary support.
	www.fco.gov.uk /servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1007029394365&a=KCountryProfile&aid=1019233911509 (2096 words)

	Human Rights in Latvia in 2003
		For Latvia, 2003 was the last year before accession to the European Union and NATO, which determined much of the policy focus of the country.
		The coalition government consisted of four parties the prime ministers New Era (27 mandates), Latvias First Party (9), the Union of Greens and Farmers (12) and Fatherland and Freedom/Latvian National Independence Movement (7).
		Although the closest partnership was initially announced by the first two, gradually tensions between them led to an open rift around the time of the EU referendum, 20 September.
	www.humanrights.org.lv /html/news/publications/human_rights2003.html (478 words)

	Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Latvia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		This is the first European government to be led by an ecologist - Indulis Emsis - leader of the “Greens and Farmers Union”.
		The Association Treaty with the EU was signed in 1995 and negotiations for full membership as of May 1st 2004 were concluded in 2002.
		Thanks to the gradual increase of its trade with the European Union countries, Latvia managed to avoid the worst of the 1998 Russian economic crisis.
	www.esteri.it /MAE/eng/3_22_40_221.asp (389 words)

	INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Elected from the Union of Greens and Farmers
		Parliamentary group of the Union of Greens and Farmers
		Parliamentary group of the Union of Greens and Farmers - deputy chairperson (from 05.11.02 to 18.03.04)
	www.saeima.lv /saeima8/kart_r2.kart1a?PK2=24226322924 (67 words)

	Kommersant: Latvian Saeima Presents Russia with Bill for Occupation
		However, Leopolds Ozolins, representative of the Union of Greens and Farmers, in his turn, said that it was hard for the West to comprehend the history of Latvia but “if we persist in explaining it, we will be understood.” But he emphasized that the declaration was not a summing up but “just a beginning”.
		Jakovs Pliners, deputy of the left-wing union For Human Rights in a United Latvia, urged his colleagues “not to make fools of themselves” and turn down this “absurd” declaration.
		Peteris Tabuns, elected from the extreme right union For Fatherland and Freedom, stated that “Latvia has been waiting for this moment for 15 years” and thanked the Saeima for “the courage displayed during the adoption of the document”.
	www.kommersant.com /page.asp?id=577123 (711 words)

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	TIME Europe Magazine: Nov. 08, 2004 -- A Lapdog Bares its Fangs - 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		It was in Rome in 1957, after all, that six European leaders signed the founding treaty of the European Economic Community — the forerunner of today's European Union — so the Italian Prime Minister wanted the leaders of the 25 member states to return to the Eternal City to sign the European Constitution.
		Often scorned as a dumping ground for politicians either too green or too damaged for the national arena, the Parliament took a huge step toward shaking its image as a spineless body that salutes the Commission's every move.
		But Buttiglione's comments about gays and women, and the fact that he had been nominated by Berlusconi, amounted to a cause that Greens, Socialists and a majority of Liberals were willing to go to the mat for.
	www.time.com /time/europe/magazine/article/0,13005,901041108-749355,00.html (1517 words)

	Anti-Corruption Gateway for Europe and Eurasia - October 2004 Highlights - Global News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Romania and Bulgaria were given a firm date yesterday to join the European Union in January 2007, despite endemic corruption and widespread human rights abuses.
		Ingrida Udre's answers to a series of questions members were unable to reach definite conclusions about allegations of financial irregularities in the funding of her political party," the MEPs wrote to Europarliament President Josep Borrell Fontelles.
		MEPs from the largest political groups had immediately expressed serious doubts about Udre's integrity and openness after last week's hearing, claiming her answers to questions regarding campaign finance of the Greens and Farmers' Union were evasive and incomplete.
	www.nobribes.org /en/archives/2004/october/global_news.asp (1061 words)

	Realty.lv \| News \| All news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The New Era and For Fatherland and Freedom parties are more optimistic about the outcome to the current political crisis, while Latvia’s First Party and the Greens and Farmers Union are ruling out cooperation unless Prime Minister Einars Repse, a member of New Era, steps down.
		Latvia’s First Party, which launched a verbal attack on Repse after the EU referendum on Sept. 20, is the most adamant about changes in the coalition.
		For their part, the Greens and Farmers Union remained skeptical about the current coalition.
	www.realty.lv /eng/news?id=33781226092003093330 (279 words)

	Latvian government collapses
		It is widely believed that the government would have fallen apart last year had it not been for the coalition parties’ acceptance of the need to present a united face during the referendum campaign that culminated in the country voting to join the European Union in September.
		The Latvian elite are worried that the government crisis will damage the country’s position as it prepares to join the European Union on May 1 and NATO later in the year.
		Vike-Freiberga has proposed a “supra-right” coalition headed by Indulis Emsis of the Greens and Farmers Union, which would also incorporate the Fatherland and Freedom, First, and People’s parties.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2004/mar2004/latv-m05_prn.shtml (839 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Latvia victor pledges westward push
		Mr Repse, a former central banker, told the AFP news agency he expected swift progress towards the formation of a coalition government, which is likely to oversee Latvia's entry into Nato and the European Union if it serves a full term in office.
		He said he was ready to shoulder the economic burden of bringing Latvia's army up to Nato standards.
		Latvia First, a centrist grouping sometimes known as the clergymen's party, got 10 seats while the eurosceptic Greens and Farmers Union got 12 seats.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/2306523.stm (351 words)

	Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Europe Division - Latvia Country paper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		It was occupied by German troops in 1941 after Germany invaded the Soviet Union and re-occupied by the Soviet Union in 1944.
		President Vike-Freiberga undertook extensive consultations with all political parties represented in Parliament, and called on the leader of the small Union of Greens and Farmers, Indulis Emsis, to try to form a workable coalition.
		Latvia’s member in the incoming Barroso Commission is Speaker of the Saeima Mrs Ingrida Udre, previously leader of the Union of Greens and Farmers Party.
	www.mfat.govt.nz /foreign/regions/europe/countrypapers/latvia.html (1853 words)

	Latvia (04/06)
		Following the lead of the Austrian Marxists, the LSDP advocated the transformation of the Russian Empire into a federation of democratic states (to include Latvia) and the adoption of cultural autonomy policy for extraterritorial ethnic communities.
		The onset of WWI brought German occupation of the western coastal province of Kurzeme, and Latvians heroically countered the invasion with the establishment of several regiments of riflemen commanded by Czarist generals.
		After the war, the U.S.S.R. subjected the Latvian republic to a scale of social and economic reorganization which rapidly transformed the rural economy to heavy industry, the strongly ethnically Latvian population into a more multiethnic structure, and the predominantly peasant class into a fully urbanized industrial worker class.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/5378.htm (4605 words)

	Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia: [TF] No. 28, 25 November 2002 [Parliamentary Elections]
		Saeima of the Republic of Latvia voted to approve the new Cabinet of Ministers headed by Mr Einars Repse.
		The Government is made up of four parties - New Era, Latvia's First Party, the Union of Greens and Farmers and For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK.
		Union of Greens and Farmers (ZZS) deputy Mr Leopolds Ozolins was elected Deputy Chairman, with New Era (JL) deputy Mr Guntis Berzins as Secretary.
	www.am.gov.lv /en?id=4168 (1174 words)

	Baltic American Freedom League
		It cannot be taken for granted, considering the traditional partisan and personal rivalry between New Era and the People's Party and their respective leaders.
		The programmatic declaration lists the government's priorities as overhauling the crisis-plagued health care system (an issue that tops public concerns), curbing inflation, completing privatization of state property within one year, and ensuring swift ratification of the European Union's Constitutional Treaty (Latvia joined the EU officially in May of this year).
		In anticipation of rising budget revenues from consistently high-rate GDP growth, the new government intends to increase health-care funding by at least 10% per year in the 2005 and 2006 state budgets.
	www.bafl.com /newsDetail.asp?idNews=75 (605 words)

	RFE/RL Newsline, 04-02-23
		Vaira Vike-Freiberga announced on 20 February that she had asked Union of Greens and Farmers Chairman Indulis Emsis to form a new government, BNS reported.
		The unidentified farmer added that he is 30 years old and should be getting married, "but without poppy growing" he can "never make it," because marriage is an expensive endeavor.
		Another unidentified farmer said that "poor agricultural conditions, particularly water shortage and drought, are threatening us," and complained that farmers have yet to receive assistance from any organization.
	www.hri.org /news/balkans/rferl/2004/04-02-23.rferl.html (9758 words)

	Welcome to the MGP Online Users Community - MGP Bulletin 3-1-04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		It should be taken as a weekly press release, and anything in it which isn't otherwise copyrighted or reserved may be freely reprinted or distributed with attribution, or may be used as a news source (again, with attribution) by other media.
		The purpose of this newsletter is to let people know what is happening with local, state, national and international Green issues (peace, justice, and environmental sustainability), with occasional comments or URL's from national or international news services and public interest organizations.
		Greens, one of the two partners in the GFU bloc.
	www.mtgreens.org /cms/html/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=10 (8498 words)

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