Twenty Georgian women winemakers are featuring in events promoting Georgian wine in the United Kingdom, with venues in London hosting the showcases. The Georgian National Wine Agency said on May 25 the promotional programme was running between May 23 and 26, and coinciding with the country’s Independence Day celebrations on May 26. A “special reception”…
The lack of military training facilities is a “showstopper” for the Baltic States’ better interoperability with allies, Harald Gante, Commander of Germany’s Field Army, has said. “Training is a showstopper in the three Baltic States because there are not so many training grounds available. But a lot of troops are present here, so it’s a…
State Road Administration will be reorganized into the Joint Stock Company National Administration of Roads with full state capital. A draft law was approved by the Parliament on May 25. The reorganization will be carried out in three stages. At the first stage, the evaluation of the patrimony of State Administration of Roads will be…
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine is allocating UAH 588 million for the budgets in the Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv, Odesa, Poltava and Kharkiv regions to implement reconstruction projects this year. The relevant statement was made by Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal at a meeting of the Ukrainian government. “Today we have endorsed a decision…
During his working visit to Ukraine, UK Secretary of State for Defence Ben Wallace met with Minister of Defence of Ukraine Oleksii Reznikov. During the meeting, the ministers discussed a number of important security issues. “Naturally, we discussed Ukraine’s NATO perspective in the context of the upcoming NATO Summit in Vilnius. Including Ukraine’s vision of…
Poland’s state-owned fuel company PKN Orlen will announce 13 more locations for BWRX-300 small modular (nuclear) reactors (SMRs), the company’s CEO, Daniel Obajtek, has said. In mid-April, Obajtek announced seven preliminary sites where Orlen Synthos Green Energy (OSGE), a special purpose vehicle created by Orlen and the Polish chemical firm Synthos, could build BWRX-300 reactors…
Archil Mestvirishvili, the Acting President and Vice President of the National Bank of Georgia, on May 24 said evaluations of Georgia’s investment environment by international rating agencies boosted investors’ and foreign organisations’ confidence in the domestic economy. Mestvirishvili said the ratings had a positive impact on the country’s business environment, and added the rankings for…