A large-scale privatization, which is planned to replenish the state budget with UAH 12 billion, begins in August, according to Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal. “A large-scale privatization starts this month. Preparations for the auctions were discussed at a meeting with Ukrainian State Property Fund Head Dmytro Sennychenko and Minister of the Cabinet of…
The Georgian government will subsidize the 2021 grape harvest due to an excess grape yield this season and the post-pandemic situation in order to financially support farmers, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili has announced. Garibashvili stated that the price of 1 kg of the Rkatsiteli wine variety would not be less than 90 tetri, noting that…
Latvian Competition Council (KP) has fined ten companies involved in the so-called construction cartel case more than EUR 16 million, as confirmed by KP representative Zane Gorskova. KP does not reveal the names of those companies and the individual amounts they have been fined. Gorskova explained that KP legal team was working on the final…
Canada witnessed an increase in imports of inorganic chemicals and compounds of precious metals and radioactive elements from Uzbekistan, Global Affairs Canada (Department of Foreign Affairs of Canada) reported. Canadian merchandise exports to Uzbekistan have traditionally been made of meat and seafood preparations, motor vehicles, medical and scientific instrumentation. At the same time, Uzbek merchandise…
More than 150,000 passengers went through Tallinn Airport in July, a coronavirus pandemic record, but it was still half of the traffic before the virus took over international travel last year. People heading for flights in Tallinn recently can see a livelier airport. The airport’s commercial manager Eero Pargmae said they did well in July.…
The construction of barriers and monitoring equipment on the Lithuanian border with Belarus will cost around half a billion euros, according to Interior Minister Agne Bilotaite. “We are convinced that a complex solution including the construction of a physical fence, border surveillance using modern technology and stepped-up border control in cooperation with EU allied forces…
Ukraine is not considering the option of purchasing Russian natural gas and is not holding talks on this issue, Naftogaz CEO Yuriy Vitrenko has said. “We are not considering such an option at all, and we are not holding any talks about it. That’s where we have such a very clear position. In principle, we…