The lead candidates in the European elections in Latvia and Estonia, Valdis Dombrovskis and Andrus Ansip, have each racked up the largest number of votes in their respective countries. In Riga, Laimdota Straujuma, the successor to the former prime minister who stepped down last November, announced, on 26 May, that her cabinet had no objections to Dombrovskis being nominated to the European Commission.
In a radio interview, Dombrovskis, who had been the finance minister before becoming prime minister, used this…