Continued low visibility around Georgia’s Black Sea city of Batumi means flights from Tel Aviv are being diverted to Kutaisi International Airport in the western Georgian hub city, the United Airports of Georgia reports. The weather condition is causing delays to service in the Batumi facility, the airports’ authority said, adding passengers on Smartwings, Czech…
Despite the war, Poland’s trade turnover with Ukraine is at an all-time high, Andrzej Duda, the president of Poland, said during a Polish-Ukrainian Economic Forum held in Warsaw on April 5. “Before the war, more than a thousand Polish companies operated in Ukraine, and hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian companies operated on the Polish market,…
With the cooling of the weather, 90 residential blocks in the capital and nine educational institutions requested the reconnection of the heating. According to Termoelectrica, out of the total number of 2675 housing blocks served by the enterprise, 636 opted for the complete cessation of the heating and most of the others adjusted the energy…
The first train is going on a test trip, which in a few months will launch a connection between Warsaw and Rava-Ruska with a transfer to Lviv. From April 5, the Ukrainian and Polish railways is carrying out a joint test run on the 1435 mm European gauge line between Lublin and Rava-Ruska. For Polish…
Ukraine will use IMF funds to finance priority expenditures, including pensions, social benefits and salaries for teachers and doctors. Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said this at a government meeting on April 4. “The IMF approved a $15.6-billion financing program for Ukraine. The first tranche of $2.7 billion has already been transferred to the state…
The Monetary Policy Council (RPP), the Polish central bank’s rate-setting body, has kept the reference interest rate at 6.75%. The National Bank of Poland’s Lombard rate remained at 7.25%, the rediscount rate at 6.80% and the discount rate at 6.85%, the RPP announced after its sitting on April 5. The RPP also left the deposit…
Georgian Economy Minister Levan Davitashvili on April 5 reviewed bilateral cooperation with Edmondo Cirelli, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Italy, at a meeting in Tbilisi. The ministry said the officials discussed ties in trade, investments, agriculture, transport and logistics, energy, tourism and other fields, and praised the “fruitful cooperation” in…