Ukraine has joined the EU’s LIFE program, under which it will be able to get resources and funding to address the long-term effects of Russian aggression, as well as to restore the environment as a whole. Ukraine’s Environment Minister Ruslan Strilets and EU Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Virginijus Sinkevicius signed a respective document…
Poland’s unemployment rate fell to 5.1% in May from 5.2% April 2022, the Central Statistical Office (GUS) reported. The number of registered unemployed measured 850,200 in May against 878,000 in the previous month, GUS also said. Earlier, the Family and Social Policy Ministry estimated May’s unemployment at 5.1%. (The First News/Business World Magazine)
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will provide the Republic of Moldova with a loan of 300 million euros to increase energy security by acquiring strategic gas reserves to complement those currently supplied by Russia through Ukraine, the Ministry of Infrastructure and Regional Development (MIDR) has reported. The loan, granted in the context…
The Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB) will offer Poland a EUR 450-million loan to refinance the country’s current aid for Ukrainian refugees, the Polish Finance Ministry has reported. The loan agreement was signed by the Polish finance minister, Magdalena Rzeczkowska, and CEB governor, Carlo Monticelli, in Warsaw, on June 24. “Poland appreciates the long-lasting…
The Municipal Development Fund of Georgia will build a FIFA Category II football stadium in Marneuli municipality in southeastern Georgia, the Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure has announced. The stadium complex will have infrastructure built to requirements of the international body, including dressing rooms, food facilities and storages. Stadium lighting, sound and fire systems,…
Lithuanian lawmakers have tightened the existing rules and capped cash settlements between residents and businesses at 5,000 euros, with changes set to come into force in November. Any payments above the cap will only be allowed in a non-cash form. However, cash payments will still be allowed if one party does not have a bank…
On June 24, the Head of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland, Minister Michal Dworczyk, and the Minister for Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine, Oleksii Chernyshov, opened a temporary modular town in the hero city of Bucha, Kyiv region. “Today we are opening a temporary town for 352 places…