Georgia: Air Navigation rejects reports on runway problems on German FM’s landing

The Georgian Air Navigation Agency, a company operating under the country’s Ministry of Economy, rejected reports by Der Spiegel about complications on the runway of the Tbilisi International Airport forcing the aircraft carrying German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock to abandon its first landing run at the facility. The company’s comments came after Der Spiegel said…

Moldova: working group for energy sector with Romania to be reactivated

The Moldovan-Romanian working group for energy sector, made up both of decision-makers from ministries and the managers of the principal competent enterprises, will be reactivated. A decision to this effect was announced following a discussion between Moldova’s Energy Minister Victor Parlicov and his Romanian counterpart Virgil-Daniel Popescu in Chisinau. According to the Energy Ministry, the…

Poland: several meetings on economic cooperation development with Central Asian partners to be held in 2023

Poland hopes that 2023 and the coming years will give further positive dynamics to the development of trade and investment cooperation with he countries of Central Asia, a source at the Ministry of Economic Development and Technology of Poland has said. “We see opportunities for the development of economic cooperation both with today’s largest economic…

Ukraine: budget support to be gradually switched to business support

First Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Economy of Ukraine Yuliia Svyrydenko met with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Sweden to Ukraine Tobias Thyberg. During the meeting, the parties discussed the financing of economic recovery projects, financing of grant programmes and humanitarian demining of agricultural land. “Currently, the state budget is financed…

Ukraine: Ministry for Strategic Industries should provide the Army with locally made weapons as soon as possible

The new head of the Ministry for Strategic Industries should relaunch the agency and transform it to meet the needs of the country at war. This was stated by Yuliia Svyrydenko, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy of Ukraine, during the introduction of the newly appointed Minister for Strategic Industries Oleksandr Kamyshin to…

Poland: unemployment flat in February 2023

Poland’s unemployment rate remained unchanged month on month in February at 5.5%, the Central Statistical Office (GUS) reported on March 23. Economists polled by PAP expected a 5.5% unemployment figure in the second month of 2023. The number of registered unemployed measured 864,800 in February against 857,600 in January, GUS also said. Earlier, the Family…