The consumer price index (CPI) rose by 20% YoY in May, state agency Statistics Estonia said, driven primarily by soaring energy prices starting from last autumn. Services alone were 28.8% more expensive than in May last year, goods cost 15.7% more. Viktoria Trasanov, leading analyst at Statistics Estonia, said: “Electricity to the home was 146.3%…
Lithuanian recruitment company Nermeka and ice cream producer IceCo were fined for exploiting Ukrainian workers, which was revealed by Siena Centre for Investigative Journalism last month. Nermeka is a company that provides recruitment services to job seekers and workers for companies seeking employees. When the war broke out in Ukraine, the company announced on social…
The Ukrainian side would like the European Union to include a total embargo on Russian energy in the seventh package of sanctions. “What would we like to see in the seventh package of sanctions? Of course, time will tell, but we are talking about a total embargo on Russian energy, i.e. pipeline oil, but this…