In January-November, the expenditures of the general fund of the state budget for the security and defense sector amounted to UAH 1,559.4 billion, or 59.2% of all general fund expenditures, the Ministry of Finance reported. “Security and defense remains an absolute priority and the largest item of state budget expenditures. Thus, over 11 months, the…
Moldova will be exempted from the payment of the financial contributions to European Union’s programmes. At a meeting on December 27, the members of the parliament’s commission for foreign policy and European integration approved a notification on the starting of the negotiations and approval of the signing of an Agreement between Moldova’s government and the…
The extension of passenger train connectivity between Vilnius and Riga to include Tallinn will depend on decisions of Latvian and Estonian officials, Lithuanian Minister of Transport Marius Skuodis has said. On December 27, at the opening of passenger train service connectivity between Vilnius and Riga, Skuodis told journalists that Latvia and Estonia were in the…
Since the launch of Livada Moldovei project in 2016, more than 530 economic agents have received loans under favorable conditions worth 92 million euros. In 2023 alone, credits of about 16.5 million euros were granted, which financed 109 initiatives of farmers of Moldova, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry (MAIA) reported. This year, the…
The time for trucks to cross the border at the Dorohusk-Yahodyn checkpoint is now more than 30 days due to the growing protest by Polish carriers, the Customs Administration in Lublin and Polish carriers reports. According to the estimates of the Customs Administration in Lublin, as of today, there are 1,500 trucks in line in…