Deputy Prime Minister – Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk, wound up her working trip to Odesa and Mykolaiv region and expressed her sincere thanks to international humanitarian organizations that had been constantly helping Ukrainians since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the russian federation. “The state and…
Poland was one of the EU’s three biggest beer producers in 2021, Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office, reported on August 30. Last year, just as in 2020, Germany was the top producer with 7.5 billion litres. This represents 23% of the total EU production of 33.1 billion litres of beer containing alcohol. Germany was followed…
Work is getting underway to refit HMS Quorn, a former British Royal Navy mine-hunting vessel purchased by Lithuania. The ship is expected to be ready for service with the Lithuanian Navy in two years. The Lithuanian Defence Ministry, which acquired HMS Quorn from the UK Ministry of Defence under a contract signed in April 2020,…
Mateusz Morawiecki, the Polish prime minister, has said the government has approved a draft budget for 2023, and described it as “an ambitious budget for a difficult time”. According to Morawiecki, the draft “includes a number of guidelines and outlays, which are to ensure security to Polish families”. “All the social programmes, which have been…
Speaker Igor Grosu together with deputy speaker Mihail Popsoi and deputy head of the economy, budget and finance commission Radu Marian met with a group of politicians and businessmen from Great Britain. The delegation was led by Lord Daniel Hannan, member of the House of Lords, adviser to the UK Board of Trade. According to…
Polish poultry farmers are increasingly focusing on growing ducks, intending to push the production performance to a record height in 2022, the National Chamber of Poultry and Feed Producers (KIPDiP) says. In 2022, the Polish duck population is expected to reach 25-27 million heads, up by 40-50% YoY, Katarzyna Gawronska, director of KIPDiP, estimates, adding…
Annual inflation in Lithuania hit 21.1% in August, according to preliminary estimates by Statistics Lithuania. The main factors behind inflation were growing prices of housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuel goods and services, foodstuffs and non-alcoholic beverages, transport goods and services. The monthly change in consumer prices was 0.6% in August compared to July.…