On July 18, Minister of Finance of Ukraine Sergii Marchenko met with World Bank Vice President for Europe and Central Asia Antonella Bassani. The meeting was attended by Deputy Minister of Finance Olga Zykova and Government Commissioner for Public Debt Management Yuriy Butsa from the Ukrainian side. On behalf of the World Bank, Regional Director…
Nearly 14,000 Ukrainian companies were established in Poland in the first half of 2023, the Polish Economic Institute (PIE) reported. “This is nearly the same number as in the entire year 2022,” PIE experts wrote, adding that nearly one out of ten companies established in Poland in that period was a Ukrainian one. “In the…
During the last year, the Ministry of Economic Development and Digitization, through the Organization for Entrepreneurship Development (ODA), offered financial support worth 850 million lei (42.5 million euros) to about 2500 small and medium-sized enterprises of Moldova. The money was given to entrepreneurs as grants, financial guarantees, interest compensation on loans or subsidizing the costs…
Latvia is set to start work constructing what will be the largest and most state-of-the-art military training area in the Baltic States, at Selija, near its southern border with Lithuania. The Saeima, the Latvian parliament, has recently passed legislation, which will expedite the process and will give the planned training zone status as an object…
The restoration of irrigation systems in southern Ukraine is an important element of support for the Ukrainian agricultural sector. The Kakhovka HPP has played and will continue to play an important role in this regard, the Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal has emphasized. At the Government’s meeting on July 18, a resolution was adopted on a…
JSC Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian Railways) relies on further fruitful intergovernmental cooperation with the Republic of Korea, which will benefit hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian passengers, Yevhen Liashchenko, the company’s CEO, has said. As noted, Ukrzaliznytsia took South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife Kim Keon Hee to Bucha and Irpin during their visit to…
Poland’s core inflation, which excluded the prices of food and energy, measured 11.1% YoY in June and was down from May’s 11.5%, the National Bank of Poland (NBP) said on July 17. Inflation excluding fixed prices amounted to 10.3% in June, down from 12.1% in the previous month. Inflation excluding the most volatile items measured…