The European Commission (EC) has downgraded predicted Polish GDP growth in 2023 from 0.7% to 0.4%. “Elevated inflation and low consumer and business confidence are expected to keep weighing on economic growth in the coming quarters,” the EC wrote on February 13 in its Winter 2023 Economic Forecast. “In particular, declining real incomes amid an…
On February 6-12, the Customs Service collected over 624.03 million lei (about 31.2 million euros) to the state budget. According to the Customs Service, private people brought goods with customs value exceeding the non-taxable limit, and payments totaling over 17.9 million lei were collected, which represented 2.9% of the total amount. The money collected from…
Georgia’s tourism potential has been promoted at Balttour 2023, one of the largest trade fair exhibitions in Latvia’s capital city of Riga, with the involvement of the country’s national tourism bodies and 11 companies, the Georgian National Tourism Administration reports. An exhibition stand introducing Georgia’s tourism attractions to the visitors and companies of the fair…
“On February 12, the expected volumes of electricity generation in Ukraine corresponded to the volumes of consumption,” said Minister of Energy of Ukraine German Galushchenko. In this regard, stabilization blackouts were applied only in a few regions, which faced problems with electricity supply to all consumers due to significant damage to distribution networks. The minister…
More than 20 modern computed tomography machines will be delivered to Ukrainian hospitals. The day before, they were purchased by SE Medical Procurement of Ukraine. The computed tomography equipment will be distributed to medical institutions in different parts of Ukraine. Three CT scanners will also be installed at the Heart Institute, the National Cancer Institute…
The value of Polish exports to Russia fell by almost 40% YoY from January to November 2002, analysts from the Polish Economic Institute (PIE) said. In a PIE report on the economy, experts added that the decline in exports had occurred despite a general increase in the total value of Polish exports and prices. PIE…
About 760,000 applications for compensations at energy have been registered in the Energy Vulnerability information system, of which 2,100 in the last seven days. According to the Labour and Social Protection Ministry, 302,668 applications (about 40%) were filled in with the help of registrars. At the same time, the technical team answered about 40,000 messages…