“Touching wood, one could say that the pandemic has had relatively little impact on the forestry sector in terms of morbidity – although there were individual companies that had to temporarily halt production, the sector as a whole has suffered more from decision-makers than from the virus itself,” is how Artūrs Bukonts, Executive Director of the Latvian Association of Independent Timber Harvesters and the Latvian Timber Producers and Exporters Association, describes the outgoing year.
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In recent weeks, both in the Saeima and the Cabinet of Ministers, the thesis has been heard once again: “We must act this way, otherwise there will be penalties, infringement procedures, etc.” Often, such a pseudo-argument completely excludes reasonable disputes, discussions, or alternatives, forcing those responsible to make decisions hastily and not always in the interests of Latvia. Why is that?
Old habits are hardening - someone somewhere knows better, let us rely on them
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A generation of cabinet officials has been created who are accustomed to accepting rather than delving into matters
This is a serious problem for Latvia for which no solution is being sought. It will probably be all right somehow...
To produce or just stand still? The forestry sector has suffered more from decision-makers than from the virus
