Polish retail sales went down by 6.1% YoY in March after a 0.7% decrease in February, Eurostat, the EU’s statistics agency, reported. Month on month, retail sales went down by 2.4%, the agency also said. Retail sales in the eurozone fell by 3.8% YoY in March after a 2.4% decrease a month before. In monthly…
Georgian Finance Minister Lasha Khutsishvili and South Korea’s Minister of Economy and Finance Choo Kyung-ho on May 4 discussed possibilities of increasing investments from South Korea to Georgia and highlighted the importance of launching free trade and investment protection agreements between the countries. The meeting was held as part of the 56th Annual Meeting of…
In January-March, compared to the same period last year, the amount of cash in Ukrainian banks increased by 22.6% YoY and cash withdrawals – by 3.7%. The press service of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) reported this on Telegram. In the first quarter of 2023, the amount of cash in banks reached UAH 601.2…
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has approved the draft law “On amendments to certain legislative acts of Ukraine concerning the verification of patient information”. The document provides for amendments to the laws of Ukraine on the verification of data between the electronic healthcare system and other registers: the Unified State Demographic Register, the State…
Polish banks look set to tighten the lending criteria for all types of loans in the second quarter, according to a central bank survey of the heads of banks’ loan committees. The biggest tightening could hit consumer loans due to an expected deterioration in economic conditions, and an increase in the share of non-performing loans…
The National Health Insurance Company (CNAM) accumulated in the first four months of this year revenues of about 2 billion 449 million lei (over 123 million euros) in the mandatory health insurance funds (AOAM) without transfers from the state budget. According to CNAM, the accumulations grew by about 443 million lei or by 22% YoY.…
Georgian Finance Minister Lasha Khutsishvili on May 4 highlighted the “strong economic” performance of Georgia and noted its double-digit growth over the past two years despite global challenges at a Business Session of the Asian Development Bank Board of Governors. At the session held as part of the ADB’s 56th Annual Meeting on May 2-5…