In the first week of 2024, 465 entrepreneurs received loans under the Affordable Loans programme totalling UAH 2.2 billion. Since the launch of the programme in February 2020, 79,000 loans worth UAH 269 billion have been issued. In 2023, entrepreneurs took out the most loans to replenish working capital (UAH 47 billion) and anti-war loans…
Chisinau International Airport has returned to regular working hours. Flights are resumed and operating as normal. The announcement was made on January 9 by the airport administration. Due to the bad weather conditions, flight delays or cancellations were recorded at the airport on January 8. (Moldpres/Business World Magazine)
Polish retail sales went down by 0.8% YoY in November 2023 after a 2.1% increase in October 2023, the EU’s statistics agency Eurostat reported on January 8. Month on month, retail sales went down by 0.1%, the agency also said. Eurostat annual growth figures are work-day adjusted, while the monthly growth figures are also seasonally…
Estonia would actively start discussing military defense facilities with Latvia and Lithuania, President Alar Karis said on January 8 after a routine meeting of the National Defense Council. Karis said Russia was testing the will and readiness of Finland and Estonia’s borders, but Estonia had prepared for such attacks. He said the border must be…
Last year, more than 300,000 new individual entrepreneurs and more than 37,000 new companies were registered in Ukraine. This is reported by the Opendatabot. “304,048 new registrations of individual entrepreneurs were recorded in Ukraine as of December 29, 2023. The number of new businesses exceeded the figures for 2021 by 7%,” the statement said. The…
Another batch of energy equipment for Ukraine, provided by Japan with the assistance of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), in the form of gas turbines, is an important contribution to the decentralisation of electricity generation. This was emphasised by the Minister of Energy of Ukraine German Galushchenko…
Lithuania and Latvia have overtaken Belgium and the Czech Republic in the list of the largest beer exporters to Russia. Germany was the biggest beer exporter to Russia in both 2022 and 2023, accounting for more than two-thirds of all beer exports to the country. Germany was followed by Lithuania, which accounted for just over…