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…
Spanish low cost airline Vueling Airlines has launched Paris-Kyiv scheduled flights. “We are happy to welcome another airline to our aviation family – Vueling Airlines. As of today, 38 airlines fly on 118 routes to the Boryspil Airport, thus indicating the rapid resumption of passenger traffic and proving the fact that our strategy to attract…
Lithuania’s transport minister has asked the government commission vetting strategic companies’ deals to evaluate the existing contract between Lithuanian Railways and the Belarusian fertilizer producer Belaruskali. The state-owned railway company continues to transport Belaruskali products even as US sanctions come into force. Lithuanian Railways said that it had received pre-payment from Belaruskali and would continue…