Lithuania: Taiwanese experts inspect meat producers

Taiwanese experts began checking Lithuanian meat producers that plan to export beef to Taiwan. During the two-week audit, representatives of Taiwan’s Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine as well as the country’s the Food and Drug Administration will look into how three meat producers are meeting, Lithuania’s State Food and Veterinary Service…

Baltic States: Rail Baltica’s Kaunas-Riga section to be built first

The Riga-Kaunas section of the European standard gauge railway Rail Baltica will be built first, Lithuanian Transport and Communications Minister Marius Skuodis has announced. The Rail Baltica railway, which will connect Warsaw, Kaunas, Vilnius, Riga, Tallinn and Helsinki, will complete the sector’s integration into the European rail network, the Lithuanian minister said during the Transport…

Poland: retail sales up in September 2022

Poland’s retail sales increased in real terms by 4.1% YoY, but fell by 2.8% MoM in September, the Central Statistical Office reported. Economists polled by PAP expected September’s retail sales to grow in real terms by 4.4% YoY and fall by 2.4% MoM. In current prices, retail sales increased by 21.9% YoY in September against…