Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has called on Australia to provide more weapons to Ukraine and proposed including the country in the Australian System of Tariff Preferences. Kuleba held talks with Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong, thanked her for military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine and called on Australia to provide more heavy weapons to…
Poland’s Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) fell to 48.5 points in May from 52.0 points in April, economic researcher S&P Global reported on June 1. Economists polled by PAP predicted the PMI would reach 52.0 points in May. According to S&P Global, the reasons for the decline included the war in Ukraine and inflationary pressures. The…
Representatives of Lithuania and Turkey signed an agreement in Ankara on June 1, paving the way for Vilnius to acquire Bayraktar combat drones. The country will buy the unmanned aerial vehicle and other equipment with money raised by ordinary Lithuanians and then hand it over to Ukraine, which is fighting a Russian invasion. The fundraising…
Poland is ready to develop its infrastructure to transport Ukrainian grain blocked by Russia to the Middle East and Africa, Mateusz Morawiecki prime minister of Poland said on May 31. “I have told our friends in the EU that Poland is ready to change and expand its border, transport, railway and port infrastructures in a…
Latvian parliament’s Public Administration and Local Government Committee decided to not support the proposal for giving municipalities the right to fully restrict gambling activities within their respective territories. The proposal was submitted by Seaima deputy Viktors Valainis prior to the third reading of the Law on Local Governments. He proposed “issuing commercial permits and licenses,…
Approximately 2,000 amendments have been submitted to the draft Family Benefits Bill by the Reform Party to slow the legislation’s progress through the Riigikogu. The Center Party has agreed to hold extended sittings to process them. Reform whip Mart Vorklaev said this had been done for several reasons. A substantive debate should be held to…
A total of 12 types of Georgian wine have been exported to Qatar since May 27, marking the first batches of Georgian wine export to the country, the Georgian National Wine Agency reports. As a result of the cooperation between the Embassy of Georgia in Qatar and the country’s Distribution Company, Georgian wine will soon…