Latvia faces a looming political problem as one fifth of the country's inhabitants are legally labelled 'non-citizens' and are not entitled to vote in the European Parliament elections next year.
Latvia is one of the ten accession countries set to officially join the EU on May 1, 2004 and will be electing nine MEPs to be sent to Brussels next June.
However, approximately one fifth of the country’s 2.32 million inhabitants, being Latvia’s so-called non-citizens, enjoy no political ...
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