Ukraine and North Macedonia have updated the annex to the Free Trade Agreement. The signing ceremony took place in the presence of the Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal and the Prime Minister of North Macedonia Dimitar Kovacevski during a meeting of the heads of government in the Czech Republic on October 6. According to…
Georgian economy minister Levan Davitashvili on October 6 said Georgia was expected to have a higher economic growth this year compared to estimations made by international financial institutions at the start of the crisis stemming from the war in Ukraine. Addressing the parliament, the official stressed the increase was expected based on the main trends…
Polish retail sales went up by 8% YoY in August after a 7.6% increase in July, Eurostat, the EU’s statistics agency, reported on October 6. Month on month, retail sales went up by 0.7%, the agency also said. Retail sales in the euro zone fell by 2% in August after a 1.2% decline a month…
Lithuania will emerge from the crisis of recent years “stronger and more resilient” than before, Economy and Innovation Minister Ausrine Armonaite told several hundred foreign investors on October 6. “The last two years have been challenging and I can’t promise that 2023 will be easier, but what I’m absolutely sure of is that we will…
The Monetary Policy Council (RPP), the Polish central bank’s rate-setting body, unexpectedly broke its rate-hiking cycle despite rising inflation and kept the reference interest rate at 6.75% on October 5. The National Bank of Poland’s lombard rate remained at 7.25%, the rediscount rate at 6.80% and the discount rate at 6.85%. The RPP also left…
The price of heating in Lithuania in October will be about 100% higher than in the same month last year, according to the International Biofuel Exchange Baltpool. “The price changes are mainly influenced by the energy crisis in Europe caused by the war in Ukraine: the suspension of biofuel imports from Belarus has doubled the…
In nine months of 2022, revenues worth 65.5 billion lei (over 3.27 billion euros) were accumulated at the national public budget, increasing by 11.5 billion lei compared to the same period last year. The expenses amounted to 67.3 billion lei, which compared to the same period of 2021, were higher by 10.8 billion lei, according…