Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal and European Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis met with representatives of Ukrainian and European business. “Together with Executive Vice President of the European Commission Valdis Dombrovskis, we met with representatives of Ukrainian and European business and business associations,” the head of government said. The parties discussed the investment climate…
Construction of a new road that will connect Mestia, a highland town of the Georgian region of Svaneti, to Lentekhi, a central town of Lentekhi district in Racha-Lechkhumi, and the Kvemo Svaneti region will be completed in 2023, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili has announced while meeting with locals in Svaneti. He said that 100 million…
Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has inked a new decree that aims to support the badly affected amid the pandemic spheres of public catering and tourism. Until December 31, public catering enterprises are to be exempt from payment of land and property tax, according to the document. Until September 1, 2023, the accrual and payment of…
On August 24, Latvia’s Cabinet of Ministers reviewed a report prepared by the Ministry of Finance on the state base budget and state special budget. Consolidated budget expenditures are estimated at EUR 11.886 billion. For 2022 the ministry has estimated base budget expenditures at EUR 8.741 billion and for 2023 state base budget expenditures are…
Ambassador of Kyrgyzstan to Japan Mirlan Arstanbaev visited the store of Kato Bihoen company, located on the old shopping street behind the famous Kaminarimon gate of the Sensoji temple in Asakusa (Tokyo), press service of the Foreign Affairs Ministry of Kyrgyzstan reported. “At the beginning of the meeting, the director of Kato Bihoen, Kato Dzyutaro,…
Better-than-expected economic performance, and with it higher tax revenues, has raised questions whether spring’s proposed cuts of EUR 60 million to the state budget will go ahead unchanged. However, more will be known following the economic forecast published in September, and ahead of the state budget for 2022 itself, which must be finalized at the…
In the first half of 2021, the total number of transactions involving payment cards issued by Ukrainian banks amounted to 3,598.3 million, while their volume was UAH 2,305.9 billion, up by a third YoY. The total number of transactions (non-cash and cash) with payment cards issued by Ukrainian banks in the first half of 2021…