Khmilnytske LLC of Astarta-Kyiv agri-industrial holding has successfully started sugar beets harvesting. “This is an important event for the agricultural company, because it initiates not only the sugar beet harvesting campaign, it guarantees the start of the sugar-refining season. We congratulate our farmers with this long-awaited event! All their efforts and aspirations are translated into…
Lithuania is negotiating exemptions and compensations, as the European Commission is looking into ways to cut record-high electricity prices for consumers and proposes redistributing the excess revenues of low-cost power plants, Energy Minister Dainius Kreivys has said. “Another measure proposed by the EC is how to cap generators that are cheaper than gas but get…
Poland’s minimum wage will rise by 15.9% in January 2023, but total growth will ultimately reach 19.6% after a second increase in July, Mateusz Morawiecki, the prime minister, has said. From January 2023, the minimum wage will go up to PLN 3,490 (EUR 741) from PLN 3,010 (EUR 640). The July 2023 increase will bring…
The European Investment Bank (EIB) will offer the Republic of Moldova a grant of 15 million euros for energy efficiency projects of public buildings. The agreement was signed on September 13 by Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Spinu, Minister of Infrastructure and Regional Development, Head of the European Union Delegation to Chisinau Janis Mazeiks and Head…
The Polish government will offer a special support package to at least several hundred firms with high energy consumption, Mateusz Morawiecki, the Polish prime minister, has announced. “We want to cover up to about a thousand companies with the package of aid measures for the energy-intensive sector, certainly 800-900 firms that are most affected by…
The Social Democratic Party’s (LSDP) representatives in the Lithuanian parliament are launching an interpellation procedure against Energy Minister Dainius Kreivys over what they say is a mishandled electricity supply reform and failure to respond to the surge in energy prices. The group says the minister will be asked to provide answers regarding “negligent attitude towards…
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and Ahmed Ali Al Sayegh, the State Minister of the United Arab Emirates for Economy and Trade, on September 13 announced talks on a free trade agreement between the two countries following their meeting in Tbilisi. The talks are starting this month in a bid to improve the current trade…