Bulgaria: Russian oil to be given up

“Bulgaria can get out of the exception for Lukoil to use Russian oil until the end of 2024, without changing fuel prices,” Prime Minister Nikolai Denkov has announced. He recalled that fuel prices in Bulgaria depended on the regional market. “We cannot control prices as they are. If someone claims that someone is incompetent, then…

Moldova: taxi services to be improved

All holders of platforms and applications of calls for taxi are to be legally registered in Moldova and the systems are to be used only through the transport operators, which provide services in taxi system. The parliament’s commission for economy, budget and finances approved a decision to this effect on September 7. The draft’s authors…

Poland: interest rate cut “surprising”

An expert from the think tank the Polish Economic Institute (PIE) has called the September 6 interest rate cuts “surprising”, adding that that until the end of next year rates will fall to around 5.25% Poland’s central bank’s rate setting Monetary Policy Council (RPP) cut all interest rates by 0.75% on September 6, bringing the…