Kyiv’s draft budget for 2022 lays down a revenue target of over UAH 69 billion (nearly $2.6 billion). That’s according to Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko, who spoke at the opening today’s meeting of the Kyiv City Council. “Today we have an important meeting. We have to consider and approve the capital’s budget for next year…
On December 9, the Saeima passed in the first reading amendments to the Law on Excise Tax. The goal of these amendments is reducing excise tax for natural gas, improving accessibility of gas refueling stations for vehicles powered by gas, as well as developing gas infrastructure. The goal of amendments to the Law on Excise…
Despite two major concurrent crises – the combustible situation on Lithuania’s border with Belarus and the COVID-19 pandemic, the country’s ruling party, the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (HU-LCD), known as Conservatives colloquially, have been ensconced cosily behind the Social Democrats in many recent party support polls. But a major test to the HU-LCD-orchestrated…
Foreign direct investments (FDI) in Georgia totaled $299 million in the third quarter of 2021, up by 1.4% YoY, the latest data of the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat) showed. Geostat reports that an increase in reinvestment is the main reason for growth in FDI. The top three sectors with the largest share of…
There were 11,518 job vacancies in the enterprises, institutions and organizations of Estonia in the third quarter of 2021, data from Statistics Estonia showed. This number increased by a third, while more than 8,500 people left their jobs on the employer’s initiative. The total number of vacant and occupied posts was 619,665. Manufacturing, trade and…
Inflation is expected to reach 11.5% at the end of the year (December 2021 compared to December 2020). Such a forecast is contained in the National Bank’s Q3 report on monetary policy. The central bank noted that the dynamics of consumer prices in Kyrgyzstan this year was influenced by various shocks. The main non-monetary pro-inflationary…
Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) together with the Compass tour operator are preparing to start flights to the exotic resorts of the Dominican Republic (Punta Cana), Mexico (Cancun) and the Maldives (Male). The flights will start on the eve of the New Year holidays – from December 27. Given that the resumption of flights of Boeing…