Poland’s industrial output rose by 1% YoY in December 2022, the Central Statistical Office (GUS) reported on January 23. Month on month, industrial output also decreased by 6.4%. Economists polled by PAP expected December 2022 industrial production to grow by 1.7% YoY and to drop by 5.4% MoM. Manufacturing prices increased by 20.4% YoY in…
The Baltic foreign ministers have urged Germany to provide tanks to Ukraine, with Lithuania’s top diplomat claiming Berlin has a “special responsibility”. “We, the Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian Foreign Ministers, call on Germany to provide Leopard tanks to Ukraine now,” Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis tweeted on January 21. “This is needed to stop Russian…
Georgia received $3.5 billion from international tourist visits in 2022, up by 182.5% YoY, the National Tourism Administration said on January 23. The body also said revenue from international tourism had recovered by 107.6 QQ:% compared to the pre-pandemic 2019. Last year, 5,426,903 international travelers visited the country – 188.5% more than in 2021 –…
Poland’s retail sales increased in real terms by 0.2% YoY and by 13.1% MoM in December 2022, the Central Statistical Office said on January 23. Economists polled by PAP expected December 2022 retail sales to grow in real terms by 1.4% YoY and by 15% MoM. In current prices, retail sales increased by 15.5% YoY…
Ungheni International Station was mentioned by the world’s largest travel guide company, Lonely Planet, in an article about the best railway routes in Europe in 2023, which also showed the resumption, after a break of 24 years, of the Chisinau – Kyiv route. The article reports “the route includes a stop at the Ungheni railway…
Ukraine exported 3.1 million tons of corn in December 2022 that was a record monthly volume since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion. It was up by 21% MoM, but down by 38% YoY. China was the main destination for Ukrainian corn in December 2022. It imported 839.4 thousand tons of corn or 27% of…
The challenges faced by Ukraine due to the war and the implementation of projects within the framework of bilateral cooperation between Ukraine and Germany were the topics of discussion during a meeting between Mykola Solskyi, Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, and Cem Ozdemir, German Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture. Mykola Solskyi…