Since the start of the Affordable Loans at 5-7-9% State Programme, business entities have received 61,992 loans from authorised banks totalling UAH 198.62 billion, of which 41,014 from public sector banks totalling UAH 85.48 billion (as of May 22). Over the past week, 360 concessional loans totalling UAH 1.5 billion were issued under the programme,…
Warsaw’s Chopin Airport has serviced nearly 5 million passengers since the beginning of the year, with 1.4 million flying from or to the terminal in April alone, a Chopin spokeswoman has said. Over 4.4 million passengers booked international flights and 483,000 domestic flights from Chopin over the first four months of 2023, only around 5%…
Unemployment in Georgia was at its lowest rate in 20 years in 2022, the World Bank had said in its highlighting of statistics showing last year’s figure in the country at 11.3%. The numbers, sourced from the International Labour Organisation’s database, also showed the unemployment rate went down by 0.9% last year compared to 2021.…
Estonia and Latvia have decided to procure German Iris-T medium-range air defense systems. Estonia and Latvia that are jointly procuring medium-range air defense capacity have decided to launch talks with German defense contractor Diehl Defence to procure Iris-T SLM weapons systems, the Ministry of Defense’s press service reports. “I am very glad we have reached…
If the ports of Mykolaiv are ultimately unblocked, Ukraine will double the export of agricultural products, the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food, Mykola Solskyi, has said. “Mykolaiv is of great importance, because it is comparable in size to the ports of Great Odesa, and with its unblocking, Ukraine could nearly double its exports, make…
At a meeting on May 19, the Government took a number of decisions to attract additional financial resources. This was announced by Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal. Firstly, the Cabinet of Ministers supported Ukraine’s participation in the European Connecting Europe Facility. “This is a way to get EU funding for the development of modern transport, energy…
Regional food producers in the north of the country will benefit from Slovakia’s support in the digital promotion of agritourism. On May 18, in Balti, the Slovak company Pro4CE, specializing in providing consultancy in the ecological agriculture, tourism and investments in Central Europe, in partnership with the Regional Development Agency (ADR) North launched a project…