The Ministry of Energy of Ukraine has approved a Roadmap for Smart Grids Development. It envisages the introduction of automation and digital solutions at all levels of the energy system. This is necessary to make the system more balanced and secure, as well as more resilient to military risks. According to the roadmap, the restoration…
Prospects for holding a joint meeting of the Ukrainian-Chilean Governmental Commission in the last quarter of this year, which was last held 13 years ago, deepening cooperation in trade and attracting investment – these were the issues discussed by Ukraine and Chile during the first visit of a high-level Ukrainian delegation to Chile in more…
Poland’s parliament has approved an extension of the legal right of residence and access to social support for refugees from Ukraine until September 2025. Poland is home to almost 1 million Ukrainian refugees, the second-highest figure in Europe after Germany, according to Eurostat. However, the legislation also introduces changes, including a requirement that children attend…
While the Bank of Latvia (Latvijas Banka) believes that commercial banks in the country have become overly cautious in granting loans, its Estonian counterpart does not see such a significant problem here. At the same time, the Bank of Estonia (Eesti Pank) acknowledges that local businesses perceive banks as not being very generous in issuing…
Bulgaria has set up interdepartmental working groups to expedite the implementation of projects for the construction of new nuclear facilities at the Kozloduy NPP and the Vertical Gas Corridor. Their main goal is to assist in executing all legal procedures related to these projects. The projects, part of the Vertical Gas Corridor initiative involving Bulgaria,…
As warmer weather is expected to come to Ukraine this week, the situation of the country’s power system may improve, but deficit periods will emerge in place for a long time, Volodymyr Kudrytskyi, head of NEC Ukrenergo, has declared. “We will long have periods of power shortages, when we will have to apply shutdowns. This…
Since the beginning of the year, 6,724 agricultural enterprises have received UAH 43.2 billion in bank loans for development. Of these, 3,980 farms were financed for UAH 18.3 billion under the Government’s Affordable Loans at 5-7-9 programme. Farmers in the following regions received the largest amount of loans under various programmes: – Kyiv region –…