While Estonia has barred all freight rail transit of Russian origin, Latvia and Lithuania are following a more collective approach, while noting that these trade flows are in any case fizzling out. The Estonian state-owned rail cargo operator Operail halted the transit of Russian and Belarusian goods last year, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. However,…
Almost 5,000 unemployed citizens in ten regions have already joined the Army of Recovery project to perform community service in ten regions. This was reported by Deputy Minister of Economy of Ukraine Tetiana Berezhna on the air of the Yedyni Novyny National Telethon. “Today, almost 5,000 unemployed people in 10 regions have joined the Recovery…
As of the morning of January 23, due to the decrease in temperature, electricity shortage in Ukraine’s power system has increased, while consumption limits have already been exceeded in five regions, NEC Ukrenergo, the state-owned system operator, reports. “Electricity consumption was higher than on January 22, which was due to the start of the working…
On January 16-22, the Customs Service collected over 597.7 million lei (about 30 million euros) to the state budget. According to the institution, private people brought into the country goods with the customs value exceeding the non-taxable limit, and payments amounting to over 19.2 million lei were collected, which represented 3.2% of the total amount.…
Otar Shamugia, the Georgian Minister of Agriculture and Environmental Protection, discussed international food safety at the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture ministerial in Berlin between January 18 and 21. Bringing together up to 90 agriculture ministers and hundreds of representatives from international organisations, the event highlighted causes of the global food security crisis. Naming…
Poland’s industrial output rose by 1% YoY in December 2022, the Central Statistical Office (GUS) reported on January 23. Month on month, industrial output also decreased by 6.4%. Economists polled by PAP expected December 2022 industrial production to grow by 1.7% YoY and to drop by 5.4% MoM. Manufacturing prices increased by 20.4% YoY in…
The Baltic foreign ministers have urged Germany to provide tanks to Ukraine, with Lithuania’s top diplomat claiming Berlin has a “special responsibility”. “We, the Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian Foreign Ministers, call on Germany to provide Leopard tanks to Ukraine now,” Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis tweeted on January 21. “This is needed to stop Russian…