The National Bank expects that Ukraine will receive $25 billion in external financing next year, which should be enough to cover the budget’s expenses, Deputy NBU Governor Serhii Nikolaychuk has said. “Today, our base scenario predicts that next year we will receive $25 billion in external financing. Taking into account the potential of the domestic…
In January-May, gambling organizers in Ukraine transferred UAH 7.38 billion in taxes and fees to the state budget. This was announced MP and Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Finance Yaroslav Zheleznyak on Telegram. “As for tax revenues from the gambling business. In the first five months of the year, the budget received UAH 7.38…
Bulgaria expects to harvest between 6.1 and 6.3 million tons of wheat and over 800,000 tons of barley this year, caretaker agriculture minister Georgi Tachov has said citing preliminary data. The crop will be reaped from over 1.1 million hectares put to wheat, which translates into an average yield of more than 5,000 kilograms per…
According to a report from the Austrian news agency APA, Austrians will find their money stretching further abroad this summer compared to staying within Austria. This assessment is based on the “holiday euro” index calculated annually by UniCredit Bank Austria, which measures the purchasing power of Austrians’ money in various destinations. Bulgaria emerges as the…
In the framework of the Ukraine Recovery Conference – URC2024, representatives of the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine, the Business Development Fund, KfW and the German Government discussed mechanisms to support small and medium-sized businesses in Ukraine, in particular within the framework of the BDF. The discussions also focused on the institutional development of the…
Ukraine and Germany have signed a declaration that will further develop the capacity for institutional development and implementation of corporate reform of the Entrepreneurship Development Fund, the press service of the Ministry of Finance reports. “Support for small and medium-sized businesses is one of the priorities of the Government of Ukraine and is carried out…
The Rail Baltica project in the three Baltic States may need 10-19 billion euros more than planned, auditors from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have said in a joint report. One of the EU’s biggest infrastructure projects in the Baltic States, Rail Baltica is meant to connect the three countries and Poland with a European-gauge high-speed…