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 March 8. The RPP also left the deposit…
The Georgian technology startup is seeing an ecosystem emerge for the field in the country, however it needs “growth, refinement and adaptation”, a new report by the Asian Development Bank shows. The report from the bank, a social development organisation with focus on Asia and the Pacific, is entitled “Georgia’s Emerging Ecosystem for Technology Startups”…
On March 9, the amendments to Commission Implementing Regulations (EU) 2021/404 and (EU) 2021/405 dated March 24, 2021 were published, through which the Republic of Moldova obtained, for the first time, the right to export to the EU processed poultry meat and eggs of category A (for consumption), the government’s communication and protocol department reported.…
Mateusz Morawiecki, the Polish prime minister, on March 8 announced a broad-scale financial support programme for women starting up businesses. Morawiecki told the Polish Woman of the 21st Century conference in Warsaw that the scheme would be funded by PLN 1 billion (EUR 213 million) annually. He added that more details about the programme would…
The Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office has finished the criminal investigation on another segment of the investigation aimed at the concession of the Chisinau International Airport State Enterprise. According to the prosecutor’s office, the object of the investigation includes the illegal actions of public persons and of public dignity at the Chisinau International Airport concession, which caused…
Inflation in Poland will gradually decrease by several percentage points this year from its recent level of 17.2%, the Monetary Policy Council (RPP) has said in a statement after its rate decision. The RPP kept all the interest rates unchanged for the sixth time in a row on March 8, with the reference rate remaining…
The diversification of markets, enhancement of orchards’ productivity, through the intensive cultivation and use of irrigation systems, accessing of national programmes or on subsidization on behalf of the state have been discussed at a meeting between Prime Minister Dorin Recean and business people from the northern Briceni district, the government’s communication and protocol department reports.…