According to Latvian public broadcaster LSM, the ministry believes that such changes will increase the integration of the country’s youth into European education and open up more job opportunities in the EU.Lithuania also considers introducing similar measures, but it would take more than four years to implement, stressed Dainoras Lukas, a representative of the Lithuanian Ministry of Education, Science and Sport.Alongside possible new rules of language teaching, young people should also be encouraged to choose language studies, according to Lukas.At the end of September, the Latvian parliament also voted in favour of the amendments that require all state schools and kindergartens in the country to transition to education only in Latvian by 2025.Until now, members of the Russian minority in Latvia could attend special schools where certain subjects could be taught in Russian."