The state budget of Ukraine has received grant funds in the amount of $1.215 billion through the World Bank’s Multi-Donor Trust Fund. In particular, Ukraine received $1.2 billion from the United States of America and $15 million from Finland. The grants were provided as part of the fifth additional financing under the PEACE in Ukraine…
The State Agency for Infrastructure Recovery and Development plans to renovate about 40 bridges in 2023. “In Ukraine, 346 artificial structures have been destroyed, 157 on state roads. The agency has ensured passage through 85 destroyed bridges by building temporary crossings. Last year only, 41 bridges were repaired, including those destroyed during the hostilities. This…
Moldova hosts an international conference titled “Combatting the energy poverty in Europe: challenges, lessons learned and ways to be followed”. During the high-level dialogue, the guests discuss the way Moldova managed to go through the energy crisis in the last years, providing compensations in invoice for the household consumers and economic agents and unveiled this…
The expenditures of Poles on travel and tourism in 2022 stood at PLN 86.6 billion (EUR 19.44 billion), up by 50.1% YoY, the Central Statistical Office (GUS) reported on June 29. Of the total spent, domestic travel and accommodation accounted for PLN 42.1 billion (EUR 9.45 billion), up by 31.9%, and foreign travel and accommodation…
Lithuania still continues attempts to convince colleagues in Latvia and Estonia to speed up the synchronisation of their power networks with continental Europe, Prime Minister of Lithuania Ingrida Simonyte announced on June 29. “It would be optimal for Baltic States to make a joint decision,” she told Ziniu radijas, adding that decision-making would be easier…
Minister of Energy of Ukraine German Galushchenko met with a delegation of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development led by Matteo Patrone, EBRD Managing Director for Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. The parties discussed projects to restore Ukraine’s energy sector, in particular the nuclear, hydropower and oil and gas industries. The Head of the…
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has approved a plan to transform the State Enterprise National Nuclear Energy Generating Company Energoatom into a joint stock company with 100% state ownership. The Government took the decision at a meeting on June 27. The draft decision was prepared by the Commission for the Transformation of SE NNEGC…