Wizz Air is expanding its operations from Varna Airport by introducing four new destinations and increasing the frequency of flights to existing ones. The low-cost airline plans to base a second aircraft at the airport to facilitate these additions. The new destinations include Frankfurt-Hahn in Germany, with flights scheduled twice a week, and Prague in…
Credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has downgraded the credit ratings of Estonia, and also of Latvia Lithuania, as a result of threats associated with the Russian Federation. S&P downgraded Estonia’s long-term credit rating from “AA-” to “A+”, while Latvia and Lithuania’s ratings, previously each at “A+”, were also downgraded, to “A” in both…
Signs in Arabic, created with the help of artificial intelligence, have appeared around the Polish mountain resort town of Zakopane, as local businesses prepare for a record number of tourists from the Middle East this year. Zakopane, which sits at the foot of Poland’s southern Tatra mountains, has in recent years become a popular destination…
Emergency power shutdowns were called off in the city of Kyiv, as well as Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk and Kyiv regions on June 2, the DTEK operator reported. “Kyiv, Kyiv region, as well as Odesa, Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions: getting back to stabilization schedules. We should recall that today they will be applied from 18:00 to…
With Australia’s recently announced contribution, the Ukraine Energy Support Fund has exceeded EUR 494 million. The relevant statement was made by the Energy Ministry. “The total amount of grant contributions from partners (transferred to the Fund and declared) has increased to more than EUR 494 million,” the report states. In recent weeks, grant contributions to…
Poland plans to train a military unit composed of conscription-age Ukrainians living in the country, the Foreign Ministry has revealed. Speaking at a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Prague, Radoslaw Sikorski was asked if it was possible that NATO troops, including Polish ones, could be sent to Ukraine. “Poland considered the Ukrainian request regarding…
Catherine Trautmann, who coordinates the Rail Baltic project at the European Commission, hopes that the first stage of railway construction will turn out to be cheaper than the estimated EUR 15 billion. At the same time, she stressed in an interview with ERR that the Baltic countries could not just wait for help from the…