In the first ten months of 2017, a total of 71.5 million liters of beer was produced in Latvia, up by 9.36% YoY, according to data compiled by the State Revenue Service. 89.28 million liters of beer were imported to Latvia in ten months of 2017, up by 16.15% YoY. 136.9 million liters of beer…
During the meeting with Belarusian Minister of Transport and Communications Anatoly Sivak and Lithuanian Minister of Transport and Communications Rokas Masiulis discussed the successfully operating chain of Belarusian cargo transportation using the services provided by the Lithuanian Railways and Klaipeda State Seaport, as well as the outlook of bilateral cooperation in developing the necessary transport…
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed a $14.27 million loan agreement with the government of Georgia to upgrade and improve the Tbilisi metro, which currently benefits over 300,000 commuters daily. “The project will help meet the growing demand for reliable, safe, and efficient sustainable transport – a high priority of the government,” said Yesim…
Ukraine’s Finance Ministry expects that the deficit of the national budget in 2017 would be retained within the 2.4% of GDP target, Deputy Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko has said. “The deficit is expected to be 2.4% of GDP. We do not see any risks that the target is not met,” he said at a press…
Director of the Financial Stability Department at the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Vitaliy Vavryshchuk says the share of non-performing loans in Ukraine’s banking system is a record high in the entire history of international observations. “We have established a somewhat unpleasant and very costly record for the country’s economy and banking sector: the highest…
The Belarusian bank OAO Belinvestbank received EUR 50 million as a subordinated loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) on December 18, the Belinvestbank press service declared. The money was transferred as part of the arrangements made when EBRD President Suma Chakrabarti visited Belarus in September. It is a unique deal for…
Azerbaijan will launch the production of Tatra trucks from 2018, the Azerbaijani embassy in the Czech Republic said. A memorandum was signed between Ganja Automobile Plant production association and Tatra company at the embassy of the Czech Republic in Azerbaijan. The document was signed by head of Ganja Automobile Plant Khanlar Fatiyev and chairman of…