The poultry plant “Hajiqabul Qushchuluq” located in the Hajiqabul district will start exporting eggs to Qatar next week, head of the plant’s export department Akif Aliyev declared. He said that 36,000 eggs would be exported in 1,000 packages. “In the future, we plan to increase these volumes, and the negotiations are underway regarding this,” he…
SolarGaps has become the first start-up in Ukraine to receive a EUR 1-million grant in equity free funding under the Horizon 2020 SME Instrument Phase 2. SolarGaps became the first Ukrainian start-up, which received SME Instrument Horizon 2020 Phase 2 grant since the interview stage in Brussels was introduced. The start-up secured EUR 1 million…
In 2018, the proceeds from the tourism industry into the state budget of Ukraine increased by 250%, to UAH 4.2 billion. “The local authorities have significantly increased spending on tourism development owing to the decentralization reform. Kyiv had only UAH 300,000 in 2014, and today it has more than UAH 12 million; Odesa had 0,…
Registered unemployment in Estonia remained unchanged YoY in March. The total figure for registered unemployed was 33,3976 at the end of March, the same as the end of March 2018, and a 0.1% drop on the previous month. The figure constitutes 5.1% of the workforce aged 16 to retirement age, the Unemployment Insurance Fund (Tootukassa)…
Although sunlight in Latvia is an underappreciated source of energy, there has been an increase of interest towards use of solar energy among Latvian households. This is proven by the fact that in the last three years the number of households that produce their own electricity has doubled, according to data compiled by energy company…
“It is planned to build 10 ski resorts in Almaty to boost mountain skiing tourism,” deputy head of the Almaty city tourism department Kalibek Akylbekov said. “Mountain skiing tourism development will embrace three clusters in Almaty and Almaty region until 2025. Last year the Austrian company developed the Almaty and Almaty region alpine tourism cluster.…
The Finance Ministry aims to reduce the national debt to 50.5% of GDP by the end of 2019, and to 41.4% of GDP within the next three years, according to Finance Minister Oksana Markarova. “In the updated medium term state debt management strategy for three years, which Finance Ministry presented at the previous meeting of…