Georgian Deputy Finance Minister Mikheil Dundua on April 12 said the country had shown “best results” among 193 countries in four “important indicators” in the updated 2022-2028 assessment and long-term forecast of the International Monetary Fund. Dundua said Georgia ranked second in the world in the study, while also placing first in Eurasia, Africa, Australia…
This March, 64.7 million cubic meters of natural gas were consumed, down by 56.7% YoY. At the same time, compared to February, this indicator decreased by about 31.1%. The figures were presented by Moldovagaz. In March, compensations totaling 440.8 million lei (22 million euros) were calculated for over 578 thousand household consumers, depending on the…
Energoatom agreed with Canada’s Cameco on the purchase of nuclear fuel to be used at the Ukrainian nuclear power plants. This was announced by the Office of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. During Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal’s visit to Canada, the Saskatoon-based Cameco and the Ukrainian state-owned Energoatom concluded a major supply agreement under which…
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) sold $126.34 million on the interbank foreign exchange market over the past week. These are the results of currency interventions published on the central bank’s website. Between April 3 and April 7, the National Bank sold $126.34 million and purchased $1 million on the interbank foreign exchange market. Since…
The State Fiscal Service (SFS) in 2022 recovered from taxpayers with debts payments non-paid in time to the budget amounting to 2.6 billion lei (130 million euros). Most money – 1.7 billion lei – was recovered through foreclosure measures. Over 900 million lei was recovered through preliminary compliance actions. About 596 million lei out of…
Polish retail sales went down by 0.7% YoY in February after a 2.5% increase in January, Eurostat, the EU’s statistics agency, reported on April 11. Month on month, retail sales went down by 2%, the agency also said. Retail sales in the eurozone fell by 3% YoY in February after a 1.8% decrease a month…
United Airports of Georgia on April 11 said it would add eight additional flights to three domestic destinations between April 13 and April 15 for the upcoming Easter holidays. The airports body said the flights would take passengers to Mestia in the northwestern mountainous region of Svaneti, Black Sea city of Batumi in the west…