In the first quarter of 2022, the construction price index increased by 4.6% QoQ and by 19.3% YoY, Statistics Estonia said on April 21. In the first quarter of this year, compared with the first quarter of 2021, the construction price index was influenced primarily by the rising cost of materials, which accounted for 86%…
Lithuania’s food delivery platforms Wolt and Bolt Food have suspended their cooperation with restaurants owned by the Amber Food group, which is linked to Kaunas Mayor Visvaldas Matijosaitis. Matijosaitis has come under heavy criticism because of the failure of Viciunai Group, one of the largest Lithuanian food production groups owned by Kaunas Mayor, to close…
Nearly 77,000 Ukrainian nationals have found employment in Poland since February 24, when Russia invaded their country, data from the Family and Labour Ministry showed. The Polish government has granted Ukrainian refugees 18-month residency permits and allowed them to take up jobs as well as given them access to healthcare, education and welfare schemes. About…
The Energy Community Secretariat (EnCS) will focus on assisting Georgia’s renewable energy sector, electricity market and energy efficiency in 2022, Svitlana Karpyshyna, Head of the Eastern Partnership Assistance Unit at the EnCS, has said. According to Karpyshyna, this year the EnCS will monitor the transposition and implementation of EU and Energy Community acquis in Georgia,…
Ukraine hopes that reparations to restore its infrastructure after the war will be paid, including at the expense of the assets of the Russian Federation frozen abroad. “Of course, we count on frozen Russian assets as part of reparations,” Minister of Finance of Ukraine Serhiy Marchenko said. He also noted that the proceeds for the…
On April 21, World Bank President David Malpass and International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva will meet with Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and Ukrainian Finance Minister Serhii Marchenko to discuss further financial aid. “We’re going to have an important meeting on April 21, where we’ll talk with Ukraine’s prime minister and the…
The budget for the government’s Railway Plus program, aimed to develop local rail connections, will be doubled to PLN 11 billion (EUR 2.37 billion), Mateusz Morawiecki, the prime minister, has said. Speaking in the south-eastern town of Janow Lubelski on April 20, Morawiecki said the Cabinet would approve the program later in the day. “It…