As a person in Latvia I feel that I should mention something about what's going on in the news. Today Latvia's Prime Minister nomination for EU commissioner Ingrida Udre is going up against the EU parliament, because the EU Parliament has to approve the all the new comisioners. There has been hot debates about Udre, becasuse she has been convicted of illegal campaign funding, but because she was the speaker of the parliament she couldn't be prosecuted. She also was an avid anti-EU activist before the EU elections. Even the way she was nominated was suspect because everyone thought that Latvia would just re-nominate the old commissioner, but at the last minute the Prime Minister nominated Udre who is from the PM's own political party and who just "happened" to already be in Brussels when the nomniation was announced. Udre has also been criticized in the past for brining her stylist along on publicly funded trips. Anyway that's whets going on here. Here's some Halloween Cocktail ideas.
