US companies Westinghouse and Bechtel have signed a consortium agreement to build Poland’s first nuclear power plant, the companies have announced. The agreement envisages a formal partnership between the two companies in the design and construction of the first Polish nuclear power plant to be built at the seaside location of Lubiatowo-Kopalino, and consist of…
Today the Ukrainian economy operates in three dimensions: the economy of war, the economy of recovery and the economy of the future, the Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal has said during the Regional Economic Forum held in Kyiv. “We all understand that the war against russia and the liberation of our territories is not a sprint,…
Since the beginning of the year, more than 11,000 Ukrainian agricultural enterprises have received UAH 54.6 billion in bank loans for the development of farms. Of these, more than 8,500 enterprises received UAH 32.3 billion in loans under the Government’s Affordable Loans at 5-7-9 programme. Agricultural enterprises in the following regions received the largest amount…
State controls on the activity of entrepreneurs will be conducted under new rules. They were set out in a bill presented by the Deputy Prime Minister Dumitru Alaiba, Minister of Economic Development and Digitalization. The document is to be submitted to public consultations. Dumitru Alaiba said that the new changes aimed to reduce the burden…
Since 2014, the share of adults employed in brain business jobs in Bulgaria has increased by 50%. As comparison, the rate of growth has been 42% in Poland, 28% in Germany and 9% in France. The index by ECEPR, with support from Nordic Capital, measures the share of the working-age population across Europe employed in…
An extension of the mortgage moratorium will be one of the Law and Justice’s (PiS) first initiatives in the Sejm, the lower house, after the elections, Mateusz Morawiecki, the Polish prime minister, has said. Poland goes to the polls on October 15, and just who will win remains unclear. The Polish government brought in the…
A meeting of the Ukrainian part of the Mixed Ukrainian-Moldovan Intergovernmental Commission for Trade and Economic Cooperation has been held, chaired by Iryna Vereshchuk, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine. The Ukrainian side gathered to discuss the main promising areas of cooperation in the context of preparations…