Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian energy ministers agreed in Riga on July 25 to jointly work towards synchronisation of their countries’ power grids with continental European grids until February 2025 at the latest. The documents enshrining the agreement are to be signed between the Baltic prime ministers and transmission system operators in early August. As part…
On July 25, President Maia Sandu participated in the inauguration of a segment of the express road M3 Chisinau-Giurgiulesti, along with President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Odile Renaud-Basso. The M3 express road is the most important road, which connects the Moldovan capital to Giurgiulesti, and is one of the most…
Poland’s unemployment rate fell by 0.1% MoM in June, to 5 %, the Central Statistical Office (GUS) reported on July 25. The number of registered unemployed measured 783,500 in June against 802,300 in May, GUS said. Earlier, the Family and Social Policy Ministry also estimated June’s unemployment rate at 5%. Economists polled by PAP expected…
Last week, 486 entrepreneurs received loans totalling UAH 1.8 billion under the Government’s Affordable Loans at 5-7-9% programme. Since the beginning of 2023, banks have granted 14,000 loans worth UAH 50 billion to businesses. Since the start of the programme in February 2020, 67,400 loans worth UAH 217.5 billion have been disbursed. Most of the…
Sanctions against Russian nuclear industry can become a real tool and force Russia to return to the negotiating table to agree on the de-occupation of Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP), Minister of Energy of Ukraine German Galushchenko has stated in a commentary for the American TV channel Newsmax. “The country that started the war and…
On July 17-23, the Customs Service collected over 700.6 million lei (about 35 million euros) to the state budget. Private people brought goods with customs value exceeding the non-taxable limit, and payments of over 25.2 million lei were collected, which represented 3.6% of the total amount. The money collected from taxpayers is paid directly into…
Krakow’s Balice Airport, located in southern Poland, crossed the threshold of 5 million passengers serviced since the beginning of this year, the president of the airport announced on July 24. Radoslaw Wloszek said that these numbers indicated that the scale of passenger traffic was returning to levels seen before the Covid-19 pandemic. He pointed out…